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Solti once likened the city of Chicago and its illustrious orchestra to a "sleeping beauty" when he arrived as music director in the autumn of 1969. It was the name of another ballet – Stravinsky's Rite of Spring – which was to reveal just how incendiary the new relationship had become within five years in a recording which still hurls itself out of the loudspeakers half a century after it was made. The recording of Rite was made in a single session on 14th May 1974, in Medinah Temple, Chicago, Decca's favored venue at that time.
For this all-analogue mastering from the original, edited two-track stereo master, Rainer Maillard at Emil Berliner Studios has chosen to master the LP to play at 45rpm — the original LP was 33 1/3 — in order to secure a better high-frequency response and recapture the full "fury and clarity" of the original recording.
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