Prokofiev - Symphonies 1-3
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2174
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 30th October 2020
Contents
Works
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'Symphony no.2 in D minor, op.40
Symphony no.3 in C minor, op.44
Artists
Bergen Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Andrew LittonWorks
Symphony no.1 in D major, op.25 'Classical'Symphony no.2 in D minor, op.40
Symphony no.3 in C minor, op.44
Artists
Bergen Philharmonic OrchestraConductor
Andrew LittonAbout
A few months after the performance, Prokofiev left Russia for the USA where he remained for some years before settling in Paris in 1923. It was here that he composed the Second Symphony, now with the aim to be as up-to-date as possible. The first audience in 1925 was more bewildered than enthusiastic, however, and Prokofiev himself came to have doubts, wondering whether in this symphony ‘made out of iron and steel’ he’d overdone the rough counterpoint and density of texture. He now returned to a project he had been working on for several years – the opera The Fiery Angel. In 1928, when he began to think that no opera house would take it up, Prokofiev decided to reuse the music and found that ‘the material unexpectedly packed itself up into a four-movement symphony’ – his Third, characterised by an overwhelming sense of anxiety and tension. The present disc is the fourth and last in a symphony cycle which has earned the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Litton critical acclaim worldwide.
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