Release Date: 01 January 2015
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599921242
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Prokofiev
Description
Following on from the highly regarded recording of Sergei Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony, the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Andrew Litton here present their take on the composer's Symphony No. 5 in B flat minor. Written in 1944, at a time when the Soviet victory over the retreating Germans was only a few months away, the symphony was intended as a patriotic work, heroic and ultimately optimistic - the composer later described his aims as follows: 'I thought of it as a work glorifying the human spirit'. The closing work on this disc - the Scythian Suite - originated in 1915 as Ala and Lolli, a ballet score for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes based on a synopsis set among the Scythians, an ancient people of the steppes of Southern Russia. However, when plans for the ballet were terminated he extracted from the original score the colourful four-movement Scythian Suite for concert performance.
Tracklisting
Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire; Sascha Goetzel
Oliver Barlow; Arlo Murray; Sergej Merkusjev; Joonas Ahonen; Barbara Kozelj; London Philharmonic Or
Masaaki Suzuki
Miklos Spanyi
Franz Halasz
Cecilia Zilliacus; Kati Raitinen; Bengt Forsberg; Peter Friis Johansson
Bach Collegium Japan; Hana Blazikova; Carolyn Sampson; Robin Blaze; Yoshikazu Mera; Makoto Sakurada
Arte dei Suonatori; Marcin Swiatkiewicz
