Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette (excerpts); Scriabin - Le Poeme de l’extase | ICA Classics ICAC5172

Berlioz - Romeo et Juliette (excerpts); Scriabin - Le Poeme de l’extase

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Label: ICA Classics

Cat No: ICAC5172

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 22nd September 2023

Contents

Artists

BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

Works

Berlioz, Hector

Romeo et Juliette, op.17 (excerpts)

Scriabin, Alexander

Le Poeme de l'Extase (The Poem of Ecstasy), op.54

Artists

BBC Symphony Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky

About

This CD showcases Gennady Rozhdestvensky’s versatility and mastery of the changing moods of Berlioz’s dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette in a performance fron 1981, his final year as music director of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. It is here coupled with an exceptionally sensuous, soaring and no-holds-barred interrpretation of Scriabin’s Le Počme de l’extase from 1976, which Harlow Robinson described as ‘possessing unbridled emotional fervour and at times unnerving spontaneity’. As far as is known, Rozhdestvensky never recorded these works commercially, making these live accounts valuable additions to his catalogue.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931–2018) was one of Russia’s greatest conductors along with Yevgeny Mravinsky, Kirill Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Like them, he was a supreme interpreter of his country’s leading composers – notably Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky – but he was also more versatile and always in search of new challenges far beyond Russian and Soviet repertoire, from Benjamin Britten to Carl Nielsen and much more.

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