Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf, etc | Chandos - Classics CHAN10484X

Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf, etc

Label: Chandos - Classics

Cat No: CHAN10484X

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th July 2008

Contents

Artists

Lina Prokofiev (narrator)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

Works

Prokofiev, Sergei

Boris Godunov, op.70
» Fountain Scene - Polonaise
Cinderella, op.87
Eugene Onegin: Incidental Music, op.71
Peter and the Wolf, op.67
Pushkin Waltzes (2), op.120

Artists

Lina Prokofiev (narrator)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Conductor

Neeme Jarvi

About

Chandos brings together a fine programme of Prokofiev’s orchestral works to add to its Classics series, offering an initial 6 unique discs performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conducted by Neeme Jarvi. Familiar performers on the Chandos label, they are renowned for their Prokofiev interpretations.   

No Prokofiev recorded anthology would be complete without a performance of Peter and the Wolf, and here the narrator comes in the person of Lina Prokofiev, the composer’s widow. Recorded for Chandos when she was nearly ninety, Music magazine deemed this recording ‘first choice’ and it offers a most delightful and magnetic performance.

It is complemented here with a suite from the ballet Cinderella, Gramophone describing the recorded performance as ‘warmly persuasive, bringing out the sensuousness… As in earlier records of the series, the playing is rich and brilliant’.

The disc is completed with a number of shorter pieces, all associated with poetical works by Alexander Pushkin.

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