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Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet | LSO Live LSO0682

Prokofiev - Romeo & Juliet

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Label: LSO Live

Cat No: LSO0682

Barcode: 0822231168225

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Ballet

Release Date: 11th January 2010

Gramophone Editor's Choice

Contents

Artists

London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Works

Prokofiev, Sergei

Romeo and Juliet, op.64

Artists

London Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

About

WINNER OF 'DISC OF THE YEAR' AT THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE AWARDS 2011

Prokofiev's
spectacular score for the ballet Romeo & Juliet conducted by Valery Gergiev. Gergiev is a tireless champion of Prokofiev's music. In 2004 he conducted the complete cycle of the composer's symphonies with the LSO which won a Gramophone Award. Shortly afterwards Gergiev became Principal Conductor of the LSO and spent much of 2008 and 2009 touring Prokofiev's symphonies with the orchestra in Europe, Japan and the USA.

DSD recording, live at the Barbican November 2008.

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Concert reviews:

"The strings were supple and radiant ... The brass, much used by Prokofiev, were tirelessly accurate, and the woodwind especially characterful, with some of the orchestra's younger members playing out of their skins. The best ballets contain music almost too good to be wasted on dancers. Freed from the need to adopt dance tempi, this wonderful music swaggered, sparkled and shimmered as it rarely does in the theatre" - Mail on Sunday

"Most concert conductors only take bites out of Prokofiev's virile but lengthy ballet. Not Valery Gergiev. He knows that the complete score is a treasure chest of musical characterisation, orchestral colour, soaring melody and blasting drama: manna from heaven for himself and the London Symphony Orchestra" - The Times

"Gergiev and the LSO's performance was simply magnificent, not just in the quality of the orchestral playing but in the range of colours and delicacy Gergiev drew from his players" - classicalsource.com

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