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Composer or Director: Sergey Prokofiev
Label: Delos
Magazine Review Date: 4/2000
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 108
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: DE3710

Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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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 |
Author: Andrew Achenbach
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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