Prokofiev: War And Peace

Prokofiev: War And Peace

Prokofiev: War And Peace
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Composer: Sergey Prokofiev
Conductor: Alexander Melik-Pashaev
Conductor: Sergei Gosachinsky
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theater Chorus & Orchestra
Performer: Alexander Vedernikov
Performer: Alexei Krivchenmya
Performer: Alexei Maslennikov
Performer: Alexey Geleva
Performer: Anatoly Mishutin
Performer: Anton Grigoryev
Performer: Artur Eisen
Performer: Boris Kleiman
Performer: Boris Shapenko
Performer: Galina Gelousova-Shevchenko
Performer: Galina Vishnevskaya
Performer: George Shulpin
Performer: Georgy Pankov
Performer: Irina Arkhipova
Performer: Ivan Sipaev
Performer: Ivan Sipayev
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-07-16
Music Label: Melodiya
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Epigraph: "The Forces of two and ten European nations have invaded Russia"
  2. Scene 1: "The radiance of sky in spring..."
  3. Scene 1: "I won't, I can't sleep"
  4. Scene 1: "She has not a care for my existence"
  5. Scene 2: Polonaise
  6. Scene 2: "Chorus! Let the chorus begin!"
  7. Scene 2: "The Tsar is to grace us with his presence!"
  8. Scene 2: "Sonya, there's another familiar face: Bolkonsky"
  9. Scene 2: "When I was at Otradnoye in May"
  10. Scene 3: "The young Prince's fianc?e"
  11. Scene 3: "Ah, count... how nice to see you"
  12. Scene 3: "Ah, Madam, young lady... Countess Rostova"
  13. Scene 3: "What right do they have, to decide that they don't want"
  14. Scene 4: "The charming, delightful Natasha!"
  15. Scene 4: "She' wonderful and beautiful"
  16. Scene 4: "Only you can decide my fate"
Music CD 2
  1. Scene 5: "At ten o'clock in the evening, she'll be waiting"
  2. Scene 5: "Balaga!"
  3. Scene 6: "Oh, my dear Miss Natasha"
  4. Scene 6: "A fine young lady you are!"
  5. Scene 6: "Bezukhov? Show him in"
  6. Scene 6: "I've sought to avoid her"
  7. Scene 6: "Piotr Kirillovich, Prince Bolkonsky has always been your friend"
  8. Scene 7: "Picture the scene, Countess"
  9. Scene 7: "I long to go away, anywhere"
  10. Scene 8: "Come on, lads!"
  11. Scene 8: "Our Kutuzov came to the people"
  12. Scene 8: "Denisov, her first fiance"
  13. Scene 8: "In the old way"
  14. Scene 8: "There is no people greater than ours"
  15. Scene 8: "The Fanagorysky Grenadier Regiment"
  16. Scene 8: "It's a shame, but you're right"
Music CD 3
  1. Scene 9: "The wine is uncorked"
  2. Scene 10: "And so, gentlemen, the question is"
  3. Scene 10: "When, oh when was this dreadful business decided?"
  4. Scene 11: "Moscow is deserted!"
  5. Scene 11: "Where did you get such a good going-over, lads?"
  6. Scene 11: "Davout, the cruel Davout"
  7. Scene 11: "Nothing matters now, nothing"
  8. Scene 11: "Just look at how the fire is blazing"
  9. Scene 11: "What a dreadful scene!"
  10. Scene 12: "It's stretching higher and further"
  11. Scene 12: "What's that? Something's pounding against the walls..."
  12. Scene 13: "We have burned our bridges..."
  13. Scene 13: "And what of Moscow?"
  14. Scene 13: "The Commander-in-chief is coming!"
  15. Scene 13: "Hurrah! We came to fight to the death for our country"

Music reviews of Prokofiev: War And Peace

Music Review: War and Peace
Rating: 5 Stars

Terrific version..Older than others but with a magnificient Galina Vizhnestkaya and a Melik-Pashayev in great shape.

Martin

Description of Prokofiev: War And Peace

Alexander Melik-Pashayev offers a superb interpretation of one of Prokofiev's masterpieces, conducting a notable cast that includes Galina Vishnevskaya in her prime. This is a gutsy, full-throated reading, and while the score has been trimmed in places, the portions missing from the Bolshoi's version are mostly panegyrics to the Russian people that owe more of their inspiration to the commissars than to Euterpe--or to Tolstoi. As usual in Melodiya's Soviet-era recordings, the sound itself ranges from mediocre to terrible, and the best efforts of BMG's Western recording engineers to clean it up have been only partially successful. --Sarah Bryan Miller

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