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Musorgsky - Prokofiev - Kitajenko - Gürzenich Orchester Köln

OC 459

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Playing time: 75'56"
Tracks: 12
Booklet pages: 32
© 2015, 2017 OehmsClassics Musikproduktion GmbH
Reviewer: Stephen Francis Vasta
Review of Musorgsky - Prokofiev - Kitajenko - Gürzenich Orchester Köln published on 19 June 2018

Listen: Prokofiev: The Crusaders in Pskov (Alexander Nevsky) (track 8, 3:54-4:52)

Vladislav Sulimsky, baritone
Agunda Kulaeva, mezzo-soprano
Tschechischer Philharmonischer Chor Brno
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Dmitrij Kitajenko, conductor

Modest Musorgsky (1839-1881):

1 St John's Night on Bald Mountain - original version, 1866-7

Songs and Dances of Death (1875-7), orchestrated 1983 by Edison Denisov (1929-1996)
2 Lullaby
3 Serenade
4 Trepak
5 The Field Marshal

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):

Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 (1938-9) - Cantata for mezzo-soprano, mixed choir and orchestra
6 Russia under the Yoke of the Mongolians
7 Song of Alexander Nevsky
8 The Crusaders in Pskov
9 Arise, ye Russian People
10 The Battle on the Ice
11 The Field of the Dead
12 Alexander's Procession into Pskov

Recorded 5 October 2015 at Studio Stolberger Straße, Köln, Germany (track 1) and between 29 November and 1 December 2015 at the Philharmonie, Köln, Germany (tracks 2-12)

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