Yes, it's completely savage and the C12's really like this one too over a balanced source. Now that I know that the DD in there is 10 mm and not 7, I understand my amazement about the bass quantity from these a lot better
It's funny - on this same recording is
The Rite of Spring. I went over to scan youtube for performances and there is indeed a half-decent recording of the full ballet performance in period correct costumery. Of the riot inducing
RoS, the first comment says it best:
> "could you imagine having to dance to this with the audience booing and hissing so loudly that you can't hear the orchestra? that's how much outrage there was over this at the time of the premier. like, you're expecting the nutcracker, and you get a ton of pagan ritual dances and a virgin sacrifice."
edit: a couple more too good not to include
> "I heard when this premiered, there was a huge riot, with fist fights and people throwing things. I am convinced that this piece started the first mosh pit in history."
> "I rate this
interesting out of ten"
> This happened on May 29 2013, at the same theatre and exactly 100 years after its infamous premiere in which a riot erupted in the audience and people like Saint-Saëns, Debussy and Ravel were in attendance. Also, the costumes and backdrops are precise recreations of the original ones.
And that friends is why classical music is so exciting!
Said sacrifice and more of that glorious bass drum: