PROKOFIEV (Eternal)

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
July 29, 2008
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PROKOFIEV, SERGEY
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 29, 2008
    • UPC
      747313207978
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572079
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Le depart (The Departure)

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    2. Recontre avec des camarades (Meeting Friends)

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    3. Piano Concerto No. 4 in B-Flat Major, Op. 53: I. Vivace

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Kun Woo Paik

      Conductor: Antoni Wit

    4. Waltz Suite for Orchestra, Op. 110: VI. Happiness

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    5. Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25, "Classical": IV. Finale: Molto vivace

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    6. 10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: IV. Juliet as a Young Girl

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Bernd Glemser

    7. Act I: Masks

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    8. Act I: Dance of the Knights

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Andrew Mogrelia

    9. Dreams, Op. 6

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    10. Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 14: III. Andante

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Bernd Glemser

    11. II. Pas de Chat

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    12. VII. Cinderella's Waltz

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukrainian State Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    13. Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19: II. Scherzo: Vivacissimo

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Tedi Papavrami

      Conductor: Antoni Wit

    14. Cello Concertino in G Minor, Op. 132: III. Allegretto

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Alexander Rudin

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar

    15. Waltz Suite for Orchestra, Op. 110: III. Mephisto Waltz

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Theodore Kuchar


Prokofiev first attempted to write an opera at the age of nine. His mature operas include The Love for Three Oranges, written in 1919, The Fiery Angel and War and Peace, the last based on Tolstoy's novel. His later ballets include Romeo and Juliet, and Cinderella. Both ballets as well as the first mentioned opera are known to concert audiences from orchestral suites based on them. Prokofiev wrote seven symphonies. Of these, the Classical Symphony, a work written in 1916-17 with the work of Haydn in mind, is the best known. Of Prokofiev's five piano concertos the third is best known, written in the composer's instantly recognizable musical language, from the incisive opening to the motor rhythms that follow, in a mixture of lyricism and acerbic wit. More overtly romantic in feeling are the two fine violin concertos. His early Cello Concerto was followed in 1952, fourteen years later, by a Cello Concertino, completed by the cellist Rostropovich and the composer Kabalevsky after Prokofiev's death. Prokofiev, himself a formidable pianist, completed nine piano sonatas out of a projected eleven. His music for piano also includes piano versions of music from the ballets Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella.