Orchestral, Symphonic Poems, Prokofiev (composer)
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Throughout this enthralling and warmly recorded performance, Osborne maximises colour and atmosphere, yet manages to achieve a freshness of approach without recourse to idiosyncratic mannerisms.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
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Special offer. Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes with the LSO is a good find; Svetlanov and the Philharmonia bring romantic warmth to Debussy's Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, La Mer surges with the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Archive Issue of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2025, Archive Issue of the Month
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Coming soon. Mussorgsky: Pictures From An Exhibition
RecommendedProkofiev: Visions Fugitives
Steven Osborne (piano)
Throughout this enthralling and warmly recorded performance, Osborne maximises colour and atmosphere, yet manages to achieve a freshness of approach without recourse to idiosyncratic mannerisms.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st January 2013
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2013, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Instrumental
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf, Op. 67, etc.
Recommendednarrated by Sting
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado
There's a real sense that Sting is enjoying being part of the music-making, adding to the drama with his quaking grandfather voice… and sending shivers down our spine as the wolf appears. There's... —
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Building a Library, June 2023, Recommended Recording
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Martha Argerich & Friends: Live from the Lugano Festival 2012
RecommendedMaria João Pires (piano), Martha Argerich (piano), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Lily Maisky (piano), Sascha Maisky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Mischa Maisky (cello), Nicholas Angelich (piano), Polina Leschenko (piano), Ilya Gringolts (violin), Nathan Braude (viola), Torleif Thedéen (cello), Nelson Goerner...
Several of the ensembles could have benefited from more sustained period of rehearsal, yet they still communicate vibrancy and the sheer enjoyment possible when fine musicians get together to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5, The Sleeping Beauty Op. 66 (Excerpts) & Francesca da Rimini - Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, USSR Symphony Orchestra, Arvīds Jansons
To these ears, then as now, Jansons was in essence a loyal ambassador for Mravinsky’s interpretation and the Leningraders followed him every step of the way. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, Archive/Reissue of the Month
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Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf (Special Edition)
RecommendedDame Edna Everage (narrator), Barry Humphries (narrator)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, John Lanchbery
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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New. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Viola Davis (narrator), Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel
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A New Century
Orchestral Works by Beethoven, Varèse, Staud, R. Strauss, Deutsch & Prokofiev
Paul Jacobs (piano)
Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst
Overall, [the performances] paint a picture of sovereign technical command, with an upholstered warmth of tone not automatically in the DNA of American orchestras…the Cleveland Orchestra has... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Recording of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf & Beintus: Wolf Tracks
Narration by Bill Clinton, Sophia Loren, Mikhail Gorbachev
Russian National Orchestra, Kent Nagano
