Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, The Love for Three Oranges: Suites | Alto ALC1453

Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet, The Love for Three Oranges: Suites

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Label: Alto

Cat No: ALC1453

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 9th September 2022

Contents

Artists

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Antal Dorati

Works

Prokofiev, Sergei

Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.1, op.64a
Romeo and Juliet: Suite no.2, op.64b
The Love for Three Oranges: Suite, op.33a

Artists

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra

Conductors

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Antal Dorati

About

“The playing of the Minneapolis Orchestra is on a virtuoso level. The crystal-clear acoustic and the ambience seem ideally suited to the melodic lines and pungent lyricism of this powerful score, to underline the sense of tragedy without losing the music’s romantic sweep. The fidelity of the Mercury engineering reaches a zenith in the powerful closing sequence…  Doráti's Love for Three Oranges suite still sounds remarkably vivid . Here his imagination really does take wing; such a well prepared account … Skrowaczewski includes the whole of Suite No.1 and all of No.2 except Friar Laurence. The additional pieces do merit occasional hearing, especially the lovely one from Act 1 called Romeo and Juliet – Gramophone

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