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| Prokofiev: Symphony No 3; Varèse: Arcana; Mosolov / Chailly | |||||
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Release Date: 07/19/1994 Label: Decca Catalog #: 436640 Spars Code: DDD Composer: Sergei Prokofiev, Edgard Varèse, Alexandr V. Mosolov Conductor: Riccardo Chailly, Kurt Sanderling Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra
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| This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic and includes liner notes. | |||||
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 This is one of Riccardo Chailly's finest recordings, and a wonderful concept: 1920s modernism as embodied in three very major works, one Russian, one French, and one (the Prokofiev) by a Russian composer working in France. The performances are uniformly magnificent: exciting, virtuosic, and extremely well recorded. Alexander Mosolov's Iron Foundry doesn't get played or recorded as often as it deserves to be--it's actually quite tuneful, and good, noisy fun. There are three great recordings of Prokofiev's scorching Third Symphony (music taken from his opera The Fiery Angel): Muti's, Järvi's, and this one. This is not music that offers its performers much interpretive freedom; you just have to play the living daylights out of it, and that's exactly what happens here, with a particularly slithery, scurrying scherzo. Arcana also goes splendidly well--it would later turn up again in Chailly's complete Varèse set, but it's nice to have separately for those who don't want to go whole hog. Available "on demand" from Arkivmusic.com, this always has been a major release, and it deserves a home in every serious collection. --David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com "Chailly's [Prokofiev] remains among the more vital and intelligent digital options. . . . Chailly's recording [of Arcana] is as fine as any available today. . . . This is an instructive, imaginative and involving programme, a sort of elevated 'listen and learn' that recalls a hugely exciting period of musical history . . . and makes for a thrilling hour's worth of aural thunder. Do try and hear it." -- Gramophone "Though Mosolov's 4-minute long orchestral "Iron Foundry" or "Zavod" was intended to glorify Soviet industrialization by cumulatively imitating the rhythms of machines in a foundry, it also reveals hints of old Russia in the rise of a brief, powerful central theme that evokes Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain." It is an exhilarating symphonic ride." – Greg La Traille, ArkivMusic |
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Symphony no 3 in C minor, Op. 44 by Sergei Prokofiev | |||||
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Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1928; Paris, France |
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Date of Recording: 05/1991 Venue: Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Length: 34 Minutes 56 Secs. |
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Arcana by Edgard Varèse | |||||
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Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly,
Kurt Sanderling
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1925-1927; USA |
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Date of Recording: 04/1992 Venue: Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Length: 18 Minutes 30 Secs. |
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The Iron Foundry, Op. 19 by Alexandr V. Mosolov | |||||
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Conductor:
Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra/Ensemble: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Period: 20th Century Written: 1926-1928; USSR |
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Date of Recording: 04/1992 Venue: Grotezaal, Concertgebouw, Amsterdam Length: 3 Minutes 36 Secs. |
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