Prokofiev: Summer Night Suite - Scythian Suite - Khachaturian: Masquerade Suite - Spartacus Suite

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Label
Oehms Classics
Release Date
August 21, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CHATSCHATURJAN PROKOFIEV
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Kitayenko
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 21, 2020
    • UPC
      4260034864719
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      OC471
    • LABEL
      Oehms Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Introduction

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    2. II. Serenade

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    3. III. Minuet

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    4. IV. Dreams

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    5. V. Dance

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    6. I. L'adoration de Vélès et d'Ala (Invocation to Veles and Ala)

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    7. II. Le dieu ennemi et la danse des esprits noirs (The Evil God and Dance of the Pagan Monster)

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    8. III. La nuit (Night)

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    9. IV. Le départ glorieux de Lolly et Le cortège du Soleil (Lolly's Pursuit of the Evil God and the Sunrise)

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    10. I. Waltz

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    11. II. Nocturne

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    12. III. Mazurka

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    13. IV. Romance

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    14. V. Galop

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    15. III. Variations of Aegina and Bacchanalia

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    16. Spartacus Suite No. 2: I. Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko

    17. V. Dance of the Gaditanian Maidens and Victory of Spartacus

      Composer: Aram Khachaturian

      Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra

      Conductor: Dmitri Kitayenko


This recording brings together unique orchestral suites by the Soviet composer Sergei Prokofiev and the Soviet-Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian. Summer Night Suite is based on the music from Prokofiev’s opera Betrothal in a Monastery and Scythian Suite was derived from his ballet Ala and Lolly. Aram Khachaturian wrote his Masquerade Suite in 1941 to accompany Mikhail Lermontov’s play of the same name. His ballet Spartacus (1954) portrays the defeat the Romans by the hero Spartacus who leads an uprising of slaves. The suites present a range of moods and variety of melodic invention that are completely engaging. This is the Zagreb Philharmonic’s third recording for the OehmsClassics label. Their recording of Glazunov’s The Seasons, also under the direction of Dmitrij Kitajenko, received an ICMA nomination.