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Notes and Editorial Reviews
...[I]n such a spirited reading [as this performance of the Prokofiev First] the parallels between the Prokofiev and the Bizet [Symphony in C] are very much highlighted: the 'classical' symphonies of Prokofiev's title—those, presumably, of Haydn and Mozart — seem comparatively remote. But for all their brilliance elsewhere the players manage to be sinuously winning enough in the Symphony's slow movement... [a performance] of the very first class.
-- Gramophone [5/1969, reviewing an LP release of the First Symphony]
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Bernstein gives a highly romantic version of the first movement... [I]t could hardly be better done... The playing throughout the whole symphony
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is in the highest class and the recording is of the same quality.
-- Gramophone [10/1967, reviewing the original LP release of the Fifth Symphony]
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Works on This Recording
1.
Symphony no 1 in D major, Op. 25 "Classical" by Sergei Prokofiev
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:
New York Philharmonic
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1916-1917; Russia
2.
Symphony no 5 in B flat major, Op. 100 by Sergei Prokofiev
Conductor:
Leonard Bernstein
Orchestra/Ensemble:
New York Philharmonic
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1944; USSR
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