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Prokofiev - Suites

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

Prokofiev - Suites
Prokofiev’s ballet score [The Buffoon] was written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, but it’s doubtful that any ballet company ever has danced to such vivid, raucous playing as Järvi inspires...

Prokofiev - Suites

Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Järvi

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Prokofiev’s ballet score [The Buffoon] was written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, but it’s doubtful that any ballet company ever has danced to such vivid, raucous playing as Järvi inspires...

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The music from The Buffoon is complemented here by two further colourful suites, that from the opera The Love for Three Oranges and the lesser-known, late Waltz Suite, which brings together music from the opera War and Peace, the ballet Cinderella and the film Lermontov.

Contents and tracklist

I. The Buffoon and his Wife
Track length3:34
II. Dance of the Wives
Track length3:19
III. The Buffoons kill their Wives (Fugue)
Track length3:03
IV. The Buffoon as a Young Woman
Track length3:48
V. Third Entr'acte
Track length1:52
VI. Dance of the Buffoon's Daughters
Track length2:30
VII. Entry of the Merchant and his welcome
Track length4:09
VIII. In the Merchant's bedroom
Track length2:10
IX. The Young Woman becomes a Goat
Track length2:22
X. Fifth Entr'acte and the Goat's burial
Track length3:13
XI. The Buffoon and the Merchant quarrel
Track length1:37
XII. Final Dance
Track length3:49
I. The Clowns
Track length2:55
II. The Magician and the Witch play cards
Track length3:44
III. March
Track length1:36
IV. Scherzo
Track length1:23
V. The Prince and Princess
Track length3:29
VI. The Flight
Track length2:18
I. Since We Met (from War and Peace)
Track length6:01
II. In the Palace (from Cinderella)
Track length5:31
III. Mephisto Waltz (from Lermontov)
Track length3:40
IV. End of the Fairy Tale (from Cinderella)
Track length4:33
V. New Year's Eve Ball (from War and Peace)
Track length5:52
VI. Happiness
Track length3:19

Awards and reviews

High Performance Review

Prokofiev’s ballet score [The Buffoon] was written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, but it’s doubtful that any ballet company ever has danced to such vivid, raucous playing as Järvi inspires in this concert suite. Chandos has blessed the Scottish National Orchestra with bright, airy, near demonstration quality sounds, and Järvi provides an enthusiastic reading that sparkles with an abundance of characterful wit and dances with good humour.
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