Prokofiev: Romeo & Julia; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4

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Label
BR Klassik
Release Date
November 14, 2025
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Sergei Prokofiev, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    • PERFORMER
      Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 14, 2025
    • UPC
      4035719002300
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRK900230
    • LABEL
      BR Klassik
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Introduction

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    2. Act I: Morning Dance

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    3. Act I: The Young Juliet

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    4. Act I: Dance of the Knights

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    5. Act I: Balcony Scene

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    6. Act I: Romeo's Variation

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    7. Act I: Love Dance

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    8. Act II: The Duel

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    9. Act II: Death of Mercutio

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    10. Act II: Romero Decides to Avenge Mercutio

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    11. Act II: Finale

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    12. Act III: Introduction

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    13. Act III: Romeo and Juliet

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    14. Act IV: Juliet's Death

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    15. I. Andante sostenuto - Moderato con anima

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    16. II. Andantino in modo di canzona

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    17. III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato - Allegro

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti

    18. IV. Finale: Allegro con fuoco

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks

      Conductor: Georg Solti


Sir Georg Solti was a frequent guest conductor with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Born in Hungary in 1912, he played a decisive role in rebuilding the Bavarian National Theatre after the war. From the 1960s onwards, he was considered one of the world's leading conductors alongside Leonard Bernstein and Herbert von Karajan. Georg Solti returned to Munich once more for a special concert on February 10, 1984, with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. Aged 71 and at the height of his career, he conducted excerpts from Sergei Prokofiev's ballet Romeo and Juliet and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony. Works by these two Russian composers, as well as Bruckner and Mahler, suited him particularly well, as they sounded musically spirited and exceptionally transparent. Prokofiev's three-act ballet Romeo and Juliet was written in 1935 for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, but it's premiere did not take place until 1938, in Brno in the Czech Republic. At the special concert in Munich in 1984 with Georg Solti, fifteen numbers from the ballet music were performed in chronological order. Pyotr Tchaikovsky dedicated his Fourth Symphony - composed in 1877/78 at the same time as his opera Eugene Onegin - to his patron Nadezhda von Meck. Despite their lengthy correspondence, they never actually met. In a letter to her dated March 1878, Tchaikovsky outlined the feelings he had experienced while composing his Fourth Symphony, though no specific programme can be discerned from them.