Symphony No. 5 (Sibelius) 1909 Schoenberg continued pushing for more dissonant and chromatic harmonies in his Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 16. From 1910–1913 Igor Stravinsky premiered his innovative and revolutionary ballets "The Firebird", "Petrushka" and "The Rite of Spring" ("Le Sacre du Printemps"). Ravel and Debussy were at work developing and performing their Impressionistic music. Though he had been in the public spotlight for nearly 30 years, Sibelius found his works receiving poor reviews for the first time with the 1911 premiere of his Fourth Symphony and, James Hepokoski writes, “was beginning to sense his own eclipse as a contending modernist.” These events
The Rite of Spring discography ballet and as a concert piece. The discography is not exhaustive; new recordings frequently appear, as do reissues of older recordings. In the tables, the year given is not necessarily an accurate guide to the time of the actual performance, since sometimes recordings are held for many years before release. On the 22 March 2008 broadcast of BBC 3's CD Review - Building a Library, music critic Rob Cowan surveyed recordings of "The Rite of Spring" and recommended the 2004 recording by the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, Péter Eötvös (conductor), as the best available choice. The Rite of Spring discography This