A fascinating chance to compare a composer's own interpretation with a brilliant newcomer. Ivan Fischer's new Rite of Spring is lean and hungry, razor-sharp and matches his description of it: "fresh, pagan, scary, new and beautiful". Quite deliberate in places (Spring Rounds is surely too slow) it is full of piercing, unfamiliar detail and accumulates tremendous weight. Stravinsky's own version (from 1940, the best of his three) sounds pretty approximate by comparison, though it is well played until the final Sacrificial Dance becomes bumpy. Fischer's Firebird is achingly lyrical and his fillers are fun, but the composer offers good value by adding instead the short Petrushka suite.