Sir Georg Solti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra - "Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring" Decca Pure Analogue label_High Top Mountain Records It was a key album

It was a key album in the development of the black metal genre

the album's first singles "Shape Of You" and "Castle On The Hill" highlight a clear divide to his musical spectrum - the former being an inventive dismantling and rebuilding of modern-pop using little more than a loop pedal juxtaposed by a stadium-ready

The album was an immediate success for the young band reaching #22 on the charts and going platinum

offering his hope for peace and harmony among nature and all creatures

represents the beginning of a three-decade-plus relationship with the famed label and the start of an extended collaboration with saxophonist John Coltrane

Sir Georg Solti & Chicago Symphony Orchestra - "Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring" Decca Pure Analogue label_High Top Mountain Records It was a key albumSolti once likened the city of Chicago and it's illustrious orchestra to a "sleeping beauty" when he arrived as music director in autumn 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 of recording which still hurls itself out of the speakers half a century after it was made. Introducing Decca's new all analogue vinyl series, DECCA PURE