Prokofiev - Symphony no.1, Romeo & Juliet Suites 1 & 2 | Warner 2173224736

Prokofiev - Symphony no.1, Romeo & Juliet Suites 1 & 2

£13.25

Label: Warner

Cat No: 2173224736

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Expected Release Date: 7th June 2024

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“Shokhakimov’s resonance with this repertoire really is special.” That was the verdict of Seen and Heard International in 2022, when the Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, conducted by its music director Aziz Shokhakimov, performed Prokofiev’s Symphony no.1 (“Classical”) and the two suites from his Romeo and Juliet in its home city. Shakespeare’s “star-crossed lovers” also featured on the Strasbourg/Shokhakimov album of Tchaikovsky that Warner Classics released in 2023. Robert Cowan, known as one of Gramophone magazine’s most established reviewers, welcomed “a blazing performance” of the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. It preceded a symphonic interpretation he described as “a fabulous Tchaikovsky 5… with superb playing, expressive surges to the string lines, artful rubato, a keen sense of play, winds sounding vividly in relation to the strings, tough, emphatic and occasionally balletic… with, where necessary, a martial strain… Shokhakimov secures an orchestral tone of great depth.” In a similar vein, Seen and Heard International found the solemn finale of Prokofiev’s second Romeo and Juliet Suite “as intense as any Mahler slow movement, the result of Shokhakimov’s clear understanding of Prokofiev’s harmonic processes and scoring”.

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