Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky, etc
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Label: Chandos - Classics
Cat No: CHAN10482X
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28th July 2008
Contents
Artists
Linda Finnie (contralto)Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus
Conductor
Neeme JarviWorks
Alexander Nevsky, op.78Scythian Suite, op.20
The Steel Step: Suite, op.41
Artists
Linda Finnie (contralto)Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus
Conductor
Neeme JarviAbout
In this re-issue, Chandos brings together Prokofiev’s epic and colourful cinematic cantata Alexander Nevsky (referring to the original disc, CD Review called it ‘the greatest performance and recording of this I have ever heard, live or on disc’), the powerful Scythian Suite (derived from the composer’s mythological ballet Ala et Lolly, written for Diaghilev) and the suite from the ballet The Steel Dance.
Gramophone, too, praised Järvi’s performance of Alexander Nevsky, ranking it as first choice: ‘Järvi catches the icy bitterness of the Russian winter snows at the very opening and is pungently overwhelming in the “Battle of the Ice”… It’s difficult to envisage anyone quite matching Järvi’s intimidatory SNO brass in this score’s more savage pages… a terrific display, excitingly engineered.’
And Hi-Fi News wrote, ‘Listening to this has been a little like running some Technicolor, super-Panavision, Dolby stereo remake of Eisenstein’s 1938 black-and-white classic through one’s head. Such is Järvi’s graphic and wonderfully evocative sense of the visual and cinematic… and once again Järvi is handsomely served in his epic endeavours by some quite spectacular Chandos engineering’.
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