Question: which of the following is not a characteristic of the rite of spring

title: The Rite of Spring
text: In 1929 Stravinsky and Monteux vied with each other to conduct the first orchestral gramophone recording of The Rite . While Stravinsky led L'Orchestre des Concerts Straram in a recording for the Columbia label , at the same time Monteux was recording it for the HMV label . Stokowski 's version followed in 1930 . Stravinsky made two more recordings , in 1940 and 1960 . According to the critic Edward Greenfield , Stravinsky was not technically a great conductor but , Greenfield says , in the 1960 recording with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra the composer inspired a performance with `` extraordinary thrust and resilience '' . In conversations with Robert Craft , Stravinsky reviewed several recordings of The Rite made in the 1960s . He thought Herbert von Karajan 's 1963 recording with the Berlin Philharmonic , was good , but `` the performance is ... too polished , a pet savage rather than a real one '' . Stravinsky thought that Pierre Boulez , with the Orchestre National de France ( 1963 ) , was `` less good than I had hoped ... very bad tempi and some tasteless alterations '' . He praised a 1962 recording by The Moscow State Symphony Orchestra for making the music sound Russian , `` which is just right '' , but Stravinsky 's concluding judgement was that none of these three performances was worth preserving .