Prokofiev Favourites

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Sergey Prokofiev

Label: Delos

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 108

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: DE3710

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Symphony No. 1, 'Classical' Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Dickran Atamian, Piano
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Death of Tybalt Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Montagues and Capulets Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Juliet, the young girl Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Friar Laurence Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Dance Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Romeo and Juliet before parting Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Dance of the maids with lilies Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Romeo at Juliet's tomb Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Folk Dance Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Scene Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Madrigal Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Minuet Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Masks Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Romeo and Juliet, Movement: Balcony Scene Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
(2) Pushkin Waltzes, Movement: No 1 Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Gerard Schwarz, Conductor
Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Disc 1 is devoted to the Suites Nos 1 and 2 from Romeo and Juliet, both of which remain resolutely earthbound in spite of some predictably neat orchestral playing. Gerard Schwarz and his Seattle band make a better showing in the Third Piano Concerto, but Dickran Atamian proves a disappointingly literal soloist. Similarly, Schwarz's Los Angeles CO account of the Classical Symphony, though admirably spick-and-span, is no match for the finest DDD rivals (not least Abbado's exhilarating DG version with the COE, 4/91). An underwhelming Prokofiev twofer.'

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