Recordings
Performances of the ballet suite outnumbered performances of the complete ballet until recent years. Recordings of the suite include:
- Possibly the most famous performance was recorded by Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Eugene Ormandy with the Philadelphia Orchestra
- Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Zubin Mehta with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Jean Martinon with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Notable recordings of the complete ballet include those by:
- The landmark 1983 performance of the complete ballet by Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti, a friend of the composer's, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra brought the complete score to the attention of a wider public. Performances of the complete ballet have grown in the years since.
- Ivan Fischer's performance with the Budapest Festival Orchestra received the 1998 Gramophone Award in the Orchestral category
- Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
- Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
- Marin Alsop with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
- Claudio Abbado with the London Symphony Orchestra
- Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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