Yannick & Philly to Record on DG
Last
summer, Deutsche Grammophon signed Philadelphia Orchestra Music
Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin to a long-term agreement. Yesterday, the
orchestra announced that his first project for the label would be a
recording in Verizon Hall of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, set to be issued in the fall.
The
iconic work, in its centennial year, was premiered in 1922 in the U.S.
by none other than the Philadelphia Orchestra, under then music director
Leopold Stokowski. The collaborators also made the first American
recording of the piece, in 1930. This marks the orchestra's first
major-label project since 1997, also with DG.
These
days, very few U.S. orchestras record for major labels. It's worth
noting that DG also signed Gustavo Dudamel very early in his
relationship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
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