The Rite of Spring branch of the Aeolian Company. He also created a much more comprehensive arrangement for the Pleyela, manufactured by the French piano company Pleyel, with whom he signed two contracts in April and May 1921, under which many of his early works were reproduced on this medium. The Pleyela version of "The Rite of Spring" was issued in 1921; the British pianolist Rex Lawson first recorded the work in this form in 1990. In 1929 Stravinsky and Monteux vied with each other to conduct the first orchestral gramophone recording of "The Rite". While Stravinsky led L'Orchestre des Concerts Straram in a
The Rite of Spring (Hubert Laws album) The Rite of Spring (Hubert Laws album) The Rite of Spring is an album by flautist Hubert Laws released on the CTI label featuring jazz interpretations of classical music compositions. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 2½ stars stating "Long before Wynton decided he could play classical chops as well as the real long-haired interpreters, even though he was a jazz musician, Hubert Laws and his partners at CTI gave it a run with a jazz twist, and for the most part with a far more adventurous repertoire. Unfortunately, the results were just about as thrilling as