In June 1912, almost a year before The Rite of Spring reached the stage at its notorious Paris premiere, Stravinsky and Claude Debussy had played through the ballet together at the piano. Stravinsky had made the piano-duet arrangement before completing the full orchestral score, and it was published the following year. It has remained a potent curiosity, a pale shadow of the work that changed the course of music in the 20th century maybe, but one full of historical resonances. Though placing the piano-duet performance after the orchestral score seems the wrong way round, it’s interesting to have the two versions together on one disc, even though the performances don’t measure up to those already available. The Basel Symphony is a highly competent orchestra, and Dennis Russell Davies a first-rate conductor, but the final edge of brilliance and incisiveness that the score needs is lacking here, while performance of the piano-duet version, in which Davies is partnered by Maki Namekawa, is workman-like and rather monochrome.