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PROKOFIEV NOSEDA BBC PHILHARMONIC - STONE FLOWER CD

PROKOFIEV NOSEDA BBC PHILHARMONIC - STONE FLOWER CD

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Artist:

PROKOFIEV / NOSEDA / BBC PHILHARMONIC

Title:

STONE FLOWER

Genre:

CLASSICAL / ORCHESTRAL & SYMPHONIC

SKU:

095115105825

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4 - 8 Business Days

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SKU/Barcode: 095115105825

Prokofiev's last ballet, The Stone Flower, is among the composer's final works. It's an engaging piece, hardly more challenging in expressive language than a Tchaikovsky ballet. It is very tuneful, with twenty or more attractive melodies, many recycled from earlier Prokofiev works: the festive No. 7, Round Dance, is borrowed from the two-part film score for Ivan the Terrible; Nos. 14, Katerina and Danilo, and 19, Waltz of the Diamonds, are sourced in Music for Children, for piano, Op. 65, (Nos. 11 and 6, respectively). Prokofiev's orchestration is splashy and colorful, a sense of the exotic often permeating the music: there are Russian and Gypsy dance numbers, and much else with a folkish, often Eastern-flavored character that befits the fairy tale-like plot of the ballet. Gianandrea Noseda, principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and a frequent figure at the Met and Mariinsky Theater, leads the proceedings with a rich lyrical sense here. His tempos tend to be leisurely, but since this ballet's strong point is melody--from the two seemingly ubiquitous big tunes associated with the Mistress of Copper Mountain (No.1), to the livelier, colorful music in Ural Rhapsody (No. 29), and much else--he captures the heart of the score better than anyone on CD, including the once-available Rozhdestvensky. And Noseda's orchestra responds with enthusiasm and commitment: the brass, percussion and xylophone pour on an extra measure of color in Ural Rhapsody and in that wild trio of numbers in the ballet's Third Act--Russian Dance, Gypsy Dance and Severyan's Dance (Nos. 31-33). The strings soar meltingly in the opening pair of melodies mentioned above and in the closing numbers dealing with the reunion of Danilo and Katerina (Nos. 44-46), where the brass join in elegantly to add to the sense of triumph and romance. Chandos' sound is vivid and powerful.

1. The Mistress Of Copper Mountain
2. Danilo And His Work
3. Danilo In Search Of The Stone Flower
4. Danilo Meets His Fellow Villagers
5. Scene And Duet Of Katerina And Danilo
6. Interlude I. Severyan And The Workers
7. Round Dance
8. Katerina Bids Farewell To Her Friends
9. Maidens Dance
10. Danilos Dance
11. Unmarried Mens Dance
12. Severyans Arrival
13. Altercation Over The Malachite Vase
14. Scene Of Katerina And Danilo
15. Danilos Thoughts
16. Danilo Enticed Away By The Mistress Of The Copper Mountain
17. The Mistress Shows Danilo The Treasures Of The Earth
18. Duet Of The Mistress And Danilo First Temptation
19. Scene And Waltz Of The Diamonds Second Temptation
20. Dance Of The Russian Precious Stones Third Temptation
21. Waltz
22. Danilos Monologue And The Mistresss Reply
23. The Mistress Shows Danilo The Stone Flower
24. Severyan And The Workers; The Mistresss Warning
25. Scene And Katerinas Dance Thinking Of Danilo
26. Severyans Arrival
27. Where Are You Sweet Danilo
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