Powerful peformance of Les Noces
One of the most powerful versions of this piece I know. Not to everyones taste maybe, as The Pokrovsky Ensemble take no prisoners. Its very in your face and powerful.

highly recommended
After listening to this recording of Les Noces, I can NOT bear to listen to any others with multiple variable pianos, muddy chorus, and bloated soloists. The Pokrovsky Ensemble natural singing which includes shouting and nasalization really adds style and excitement that is totally missing in other recordings. The pianos here have been replaced by a Macintosh and I totally agree with the liner notes that the computer's tonal and rhythmic precision and the simplicity of timbre works very well with this music and that Stravinsky would have been pleased with it. The Macintosh is reasonably audible but I wish it was louder.

The truly folk pieces on the CD are interesting and some of them (depending on the listener's mood) are hypnotic or repetitive.

My only real complaints are that the post production editing work could have been a little better and the liner notes do not contain the original Russian lyrics ... only the English translations.

articulately ugly
This music well expresses ugliness.The word 'psychotic', seems to suit the sound of many of the tracks.There is no denying that most people would dislike the severity of this cd.The chaos is applied, however, with great detail (using chorus as the main, with countless traditional + classical instruments).'Atonal' is the classical term for the absense of key signature - The notes are all over place.The singing is especially akward sounding.
The links this music has to Russian folklore are very confusing, but well explained in the (excellent) liner notes.This music's sound though, is like 20th century Russian classical.

Fascinating
The recording that Stravinsky would have possibly made had the technology existed in his lifetime.

A Russian Rite
I heard the Pokrovsky Ensemble just days ago and I am thoroughly impressed. Their sound was absolutely mesmerizing and beautiful. truthfully, I don't have this CD, but I intend to buy it. When I heard this group the female voices came singing in from the back of the auditorium, it was incredibly haunting and so beautiful. What's even more amazing was I heard them before Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and you can genuinely hear the folk implications in that piece. BTW, if you've never heard Rite of Spring go hear it! It will truly move and inspire you. Also, if anyone knows of any other recordings the Pokrovsky Ensemble has done, let me know. I want to know the songs they sang before the Rite of Spring and i can't find them anywhere!