Prokofiev - The Collector’s Edition | Warner 9029626271

Prokofiev - The Collector’s Edition

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Label: Warner

Cat No: 9029626271

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 36

Release Date: 17th March 2023

Contents

Works

Prokofiev, Sergei

Alexander Nevsky, op.78
Cello Concertino in G minor, op.132
Cello Concerto in E minor, op.58
Cello Sonata in C major, op.119
Cinderella, op.87
Cinderella: Dances (5)
Cinderella: Pieces for Piano (3), op.95
Cinderella: Pieces for Piano (6), op.102
Etudes (4), op.2
Flute Sonata in D major, op.94
Ivan Grozniy (Ivan the Terrible), op.116
Lieutenant Kije, op.60
Melodies (5) for violin and piano, op.35b
Music for Children, op.65
Old Grandmother's Tales, op.31
» no.2 Andantino (arr. Nathan Milstein)
» no.3 Andante assai
Overture on Hebrew Themes, op.34
Peter and the Wolf, op.67
Piano Concertos nos.1-5 (complete)
Piano Sonatas nos.1-9 (complete)
Pieces for Piano (4), op.4
» no.4 Suggestion diabolique
Quintet in G minor, op.39
Romeo and Juliet, op.64
Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.1, op.64a
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.2, op.64b
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.3, op.101
Russian Folksongs (12), op.104 (excerpts)
Scythian Suite, op.20
Sinfonia Concertante in E minor for cello and orchestra, op.125
Sinfonietta, op.48
Sonata for 2 violins in C major, op.56
Sonata for solo cello in C sharp minor, op.134 (completed by V Blok)
Sonata for solo violin in D major, op.115
String Quartet no.2 in F major, op.92
Summer Night: Suite from 'The Duenna', op.123
Symphonies 1-7 (complete)
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical' (arr. for 2 pianos)
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical' (arr. for piano)
» III Gavotte
The Love for Three Oranges, op.33
The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, op.33a
The Love for Three Oranges: Two pieces for piano, op.33b
» March
The Steel Step, op.41
Toccata in D minor, op.11
Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, op.19
Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.63
Violin Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.80
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major, op.94a
Visions fugitives, op.22
War and Peace, op.91

Artists

Catherine Dubosc (soprano)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Stefania Toczyska (mezzo-soprano)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Wieslaw Ochman (tenor)
Jean-Luc Viala (tenor)
Gabriel Bacquier (baritone)
Lajos Miller (baritone)
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass)
Dimiter Petkov (bass)
Miguel Bosé (narrator)
Bart Peeters (narrator)
Claude Pieplu (narrator)
Kyu Sakamoto (narrator)
Romy Schneider (narrator)
Peter Ustinov (narrator)
Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Martha Argerich (piano)
Michel Beroff (piano)
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Samson Francois (piano)
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
Witold Malcuzynski (piano)
Rafael Orozco (piano)
Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
Sergei Prokofiev (piano)
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Roustem Saitkoulov (piano)
Gyorgy Sebok (piano)
Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
Anton Barachovsky (violin)
Vilde Frang (violin)
Nathan Milstein (violin)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Vadim Repin (violin)
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Gautier Capucon (cello)
Han-Na Chang (cello)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Truls Mork (cello)
Janos Starker (cello)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Michel Portal (clarinet)
Borodin Quartet
Quartetto Italiano
Quatuor Parrenin
Berliner Solisten

Conductors

Paavo Berglund
Lawrence Foster
Armin Jordan
Herbert von Karajan
Alain Lombard
Igor Markevitch
Riccardo Muti
Kent Nagano
Andre Previn
Simon Rattle
Mstislav Rostropovich
Constantin Silvestri

Works

Prokofiev, Sergei

Alexander Nevsky, op.78
Cello Concertino in G minor, op.132
Cello Concerto in E minor, op.58
Cello Sonata in C major, op.119
Cinderella, op.87
Cinderella: Dances (5)
Cinderella: Pieces for Piano (3), op.95
Cinderella: Pieces for Piano (6), op.102
Etudes (4), op.2
Flute Sonata in D major, op.94
Ivan Grozniy (Ivan the Terrible), op.116
Lieutenant Kije, op.60
Melodies (5) for violin and piano, op.35b
Music for Children, op.65
Old Grandmother's Tales, op.31
» no.2 Andantino (arr. Nathan Milstein)
» no.3 Andante assai
Overture on Hebrew Themes, op.34
Peter and the Wolf, op.67
Piano Concertos nos.1-5 (complete)
Piano Sonatas nos.1-9 (complete)
Pieces for Piano (4), op.4
» no.4 Suggestion diabolique
Quintet in G minor, op.39
Romeo and Juliet, op.64
Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.1, op.64a
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.2, op.64b
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.3, op.101
Russian Folksongs (12), op.104 (excerpts)
Scythian Suite, op.20
Sinfonia Concertante in E minor for cello and orchestra, op.125
Sinfonietta, op.48
Sonata for 2 violins in C major, op.56
Sonata for solo cello in C sharp minor, op.134 (completed by V Blok)
Sonata for solo violin in D major, op.115
String Quartet no.2 in F major, op.92
Summer Night: Suite from 'The Duenna', op.123
Symphonies 1-7 (complete)
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical' (arr. for 2 pianos)
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical' (arr. for piano)
» III Gavotte
The Love for Three Oranges, op.33
The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, op.33a
The Love for Three Oranges: Two pieces for piano, op.33b
» March
The Steel Step, op.41
Toccata in D minor, op.11
Violin Concerto no.1 in D major, op.19
Violin Concerto no.2 in G minor, op.63
Violin Sonata no.1 in F minor, op.80
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major, op.94a
Visions fugitives, op.22
War and Peace, op.91

Artists

Catherine Dubosc (soprano)
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
Stefania Toczyska (mezzo-soprano)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Wieslaw Ochman (tenor)
Jean-Luc Viala (tenor)
Gabriel Bacquier (baritone)
Lajos Miller (baritone)
Nicola Ghiuselev (bass)
Dimiter Petkov (bass)
Miguel Bosé (narrator)
Bart Peeters (narrator)
Claude Pieplu (narrator)
Kyu Sakamoto (narrator)
Romy Schneider (narrator)
Peter Ustinov (narrator)
Nicholas Angelich (piano)
Martha Argerich (piano)
Michel Beroff (piano)
Yefim Bronfman (piano)
Samson Francois (piano)
Andrei Gavrilov (piano)
Cyprien Katsaris (piano)
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
Witold Malcuzynski (piano)
Rafael Orozco (piano)
Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
Sergei Prokofiev (piano)
Beatrice Rana (piano)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Roustem Saitkoulov (piano)
Gyorgy Sebok (piano)
Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
Anton Barachovsky (violin)
Vilde Frang (violin)
Nathan Milstein (violin)
David Oistrakh (violin)
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Vadim Repin (violin)
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (violin)
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Gautier Capucon (cello)
Han-Na Chang (cello)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Truls Mork (cello)
Janos Starker (cello)
Emmanuel Pahud (flute)
Michel Portal (clarinet)
Borodin Quartet
Quartetto Italiano
Quatuor Parrenin
Berliner Solisten

Conductors

Paavo Berglund
Lawrence Foster
Armin Jordan
Herbert von Karajan
Alain Lombard
Igor Markevitch
Riccardo Muti
Kent Nagano
Andre Previn
Simon Rattle
Mstislav Rostropovich
Constantin Silvestri

About

This 36-CD collector’s edition includes almost all Prokofiev’s most important music. A collection of landmark recordings, it features numerous major performers of the present and the past, including Sergei Prokofiev himself.

Regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century, Prokofiev was both an innovator who delighted in controversy and a traditionalist seeking out purer melodies and classical forms. His masterpieces across numerous music genres include such widely heard pieces as the exhilarating Romeo and Juliet (ballet), the irresistible Peter and the Wolf (children's tale), the epic Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein's eponymous film score), and his thrilling Third Piano Concerto (now a staple piece of repertoire performed on stages around the world), among so many others. A rich anthology of landmark interpretations, showcasing Prokofiev as a pianist, this edition vividly illustrates the goal he set himself as a composer: to “extol human life and lead mankind to a radiant future”.

March 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of death of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953). A Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, he made a part of his career in “the west”, moving to the United States and France after the 1917 Revolution. He went back to his land, which had become the Soviet Union in the late 30s. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the ballet Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, his Third Piano Concerto, two Violin Concertos, the “Classical” Symphony, the opera War and Peace, several symphonies, the film music of Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, and a great cycle of nine Piano Sonatas.

Sergei Prokofiev was born on 27 April 1891 in Sontsovka in the Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). He studied music very young and proved to be exceptionally gifted. At the age of 10 years old, he started learning composition with Reinhold Glière. Prokofiev moved to St Petersburg in 1904 and was admitted to the prestigious Conservatory where he studied piano, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration and conducting, notably under Lyadov, Tcherepnin or Rimsky-Korsakov. Aged only 13 when he entered the Conservatory, he was much younger than most of his classmates.

Later, after having graduated, Prokofiev made his name as an iconoclastic composer-pianist, achieving notoriety with a series of ferociously dissonant and virtuosic works for his instrument, including his first two piano concertos. In 1915, Prokofiev made a decisive break from the standard composer-pianist category with his orchestral Scythian Suite, compiled from music originally composed for a ballet commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev of the Ballets russes. Diaghilev commissioned three further ballets from Prokofiev – Chout, Le Pas d’acier and The Prodigal Son – which, at the time of their original production, all caused a sensation among both critics and colleagues. (He would compose at the end of the 30s one of his most famous ballets, Romeo and Juliet.) A prolific period when he also composed the Symphony no.1 “Classical”, the Visions fugitives for piano and his First Violin Concerto, one of the most beautiful written in the 20th century.

After the Revolution of 1917, Prokofiev had to leave Russia, and he moved to the United States, Germany, and then Paris, making his living as a composer, pianist and conductor. He stayed there until the 30s, and composed some of his masterpieces, notably the Third Piano Concerto, the Fiery Angel and L’Amour des trois oranges operas, three symphonies, his Fourth Piano Concerto “for the left hand”, etc.

In the early 1930s, the Great Depression diminished opportunities for Prokofiev’s ballets and operas to be staged in America and western Europe. Prokofiev, who regarded himself as a composer foremost, resented the time taken by touring as a pianist, and increasingly turned to the Soviet Union for commissions of new music; in 1936, he finally returned to his homeland with his family. His greatest Soviet successes included Lieutenant Kijé, Peter and the Wolf, Romeo and Juliet, Alexander Nevsky, the Fifth Symphony, the Piano Sonatas nos. 6–8 (called the “War Sonatas”) and the opera War and Peace after Leo Tolstoy’s novel.

Prokofiev died on 5 March 1953, the same day as Joseph Stalin.

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