PROKOFIEV: Alexander Nevsky (World Premiere Recording of Original Score) (SACD)
Label: Capriccio
Format: SACD hybrid
Categories: Orchestral Music, Vocal Music
Classical Periods: 20th Century
Available: 2
Price: $20.99
Sergey Prokofiev
Alexander Nevsky (Film Music (1938)
First complete recording of the original score
SACD Hybrid MultiChannel. Plays on all SACD and CD Players
Marina Domaschencko, mezzo
Ernst-Senff-Chor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Frank Strobel, director
In October 2003, a new version of the Soviet monumental film "Alexander Nevsky" by Sergei Eisenstein was put on at a celebration at the Konzerthaus in Berlin. The music, composed by no other than Sergei Prokofiev, was reconstructed for the first time for this performance. Capriccio now presents the first recording of this restored original score, which arose from the collaboration of two geniuses, Eisenstein and Prokofiev. Compared to Prokofiev's famous "Alexander Nevsky" cantata, there are no less than 20 minutes of additional music. Film music specialist Frank Strobel conducts the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Comes with an in-depth 32 page booklet about the film and other information in German, English and French!
| Track Listing | Time | MP3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Nevsky | |||
| 1 | The 13th Century (orchestra) | 1:35 |  |
| 2 | Lake Plesheyevo - song about Alexander Nevsky (chorus, orchestra) | 1:24 | |
| 3 | Lake Plesheyevo - song about Alexander Nevsky (continued) | 1:06 | |
| 4 | Novgorod - Part 1 (orchestra) | 1:15 | |
| 5 | The invaders in Pskov (orchestra) | 2:28 | |
| 6 | The invaders in Pskov (continued) | 3:16 | |
| 7 | "Arise Russian People" Part 1 (chorus, orchestra) | 2:28 | |
| 8 | Novgorod - Part 2 (orchestra) | 1:01 | |
| 9 | Novgorod - Part 2 (continued) | 0:24 | |
| 10 | "Arise Russian People" Part 2 (chorus, orchestra) | 4:22 | |
| 11 | The camp of the invaders "Peregrinus expectavi" (chorus, orchestra) | 1:44 | |
| 12 | Waiting (orchestra) | 0:57 | |
| 13 | Fanfares (orchestra) | 0:23 | |
| 14 | The battle on the ice - April 5, 1242 (chorus, orchestra) | 6:15 | |
| 15 | - Fighting (orchestra) | 1:55 | |
| 16 | - Shawms, invaders and fighting (chorus, orchestra) | 2:50 | |
| 17 | - Fanfares (orchestra) | 0:10 | |
| 18 | - Duel (orchestra) | 1:26 | |
| 19 | - Finale (The ice breaks, orchestra) | 5:17 | |
| 20 | The field of the dead (Mezzo, orchestra) | 5:35 | |
| 21 | The field of the dead (conclussion, orchestra) | 1:11 | |
| 22 | Return to Pskov - Procession (orchestra) | 4:33 | |
| 23 | - The court (orchestra) | 0:38 | |
| 24 | - The fallen (orchestra) | 1:06 | |
| 25 | - "Our homeland, great land of Russia!" (chorus, orchestra) | 0:27 | |
| 26 | - Celebration (orchestra) | 0:51 | |
| 27 | Finale (orchestra) | 0:53 |