The Rite of Spring recording for the Columbia label, at the same time Monteux was recording it for the HMV label. Stokowski's version followed in 1930. Stravinsky made two more recordings, in 1940 and 1960. According to the critic Edward Greenfield, Stravinsky was not technically a great conductor but, Greenfield says, in the 1960 recording with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra the composer inspired a performance with "extraordinary thrust and resilience". In conversations with Robert Craft, Stravinsky reviewed several recordings of "The Rite" made in the 1960s. He thought Herbert von Karajan's 1963 recording with the Berlin Philharmonic, was good, but "the performance is ...
Rite of Spring (film) also remembered for "a furious apocalyptic montage that links Christ's death to the violence and lunacy of the Vietnam era". Rite of Spring (film) Rite of Spring (Portuguese: Acto da Primavera) is a 1963 Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira, his second feature. The poet and director António Reis was the film's assistant director, and his influence can be felt deeply throughout it. (The film was included in the film program "The School of Reis" in 2012.) The inhabitants of Curalha, a small village in western Portugal, perform the Passion of Jesus every year according to text from about