PROKOFIEV: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

São Paulo Symphony Orchestra;
Alsop, Marin

NBD 0044

Third episode of the Prokofiev cycle with the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra and Marin Alsop - Alsop's Prokofiev recordings are on their way to becoming a reference cycle - Marin Alsop has received numerous prizes and awards, such as the Conductor Award at the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award 2002 - Simultaneous release on CD and Blu-ray- audio in best audiophile quality.

Although Prokofiev had already written two symphonies as a student, his first numbered work of this genre was the "Classical Symphony", which he completed in 1917.

Melodically, if not harmonically, it evokes the world of Haydn and Mozart and has always remained one of his most popular works.

Quite differently his second, which he himself called "iron and steel" and which, with its conscious modernity and almost physical power, illustrates Scriabin's early influences on Prokofiev.

Blu-ray audio

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

30-09-2014

0730099004466