Petrushka is one of three innovative ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky during his ‘Russian’ period. With Petrushka, Stravinsky showed his neo-folkloric side and brought a colourful street crowd with a magician and his puppets, merchants and mummies to the ballet stage. In doing so, he showed the world that funfair and classical music are not contradictory, and his audience now heard folk music from a new perspective.

This is one of the few Deutsche Grammophon productions from 1980 in which digital 2-track and analogue 8-track were recorded in parallel. By using the analogue 8-track master, this release now makes the recording available in purely analogue form for the very first time.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.

On 180g vinyl record (45 rpm) and in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and lyrics, the copies of this series are released limited and numbered, accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.

Tracklisting:
Stravinsky: Petrushka, K012
Side A
Scene 1
1. Ia. The Shrovetide Fair - The Crowds - The Conjuring-Trick
2. Ib. Russian Dance

Scene 2
3. II. Petrushka's Room

Side B
Scene 3
1. IIIa. The Moor's Room - IIIb. Dance of the Ballerina
2. IIIc. Waltz. The Ballerina and the Moor

Scene 4
3. IVa. The Shrovetide Fair (Evening)
4. IVb. Dance of the Wet-Nurses
5. IVc. Dance of the Peasant and the Bear
6. IVd. The Jovial Merchant with 2 Gypsy Girls
7. IVe. Dance of the Coachmen and the Grooms
8. IVf. The Masqueraders
9. IVg. The Scuffle
10. IVh. Death of Petrushka
11. IVi. The Police and the Charlatan
12. IVj. Apparition of Petrushka's Ghost