Episode 2
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on a pair of ballets and a pair of operas, including The Love for Three Oranges.
In Tuesday's programme, a pair of ballets and a pair of operas, both highly contrasted. The ballets are Trapeze, a concise chamber score written for a small travelling dance troupe, and Le pas d'acier - 'The Steel Step' - a 'futurist' ballet glorifying Soviet proletarian society (the Soviet authorities were reportedly not amused). The operas are the utterly absurd and perennially popular The Love for Three Oranges, and the esoteric, melodramatic and much less familiar The Fiery Angel, a remarkable work which Prokofiev himself never saw staged.
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Sergey Prokofiev
?Quintet in G minor
Performer: Berlin Soloists
- Warner 0927 49637-2.
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Sergey Prokofiev
?The Love for Three Oranges
Performer: Georges Gautier (Truffaldino – tenor) Performer: Jean-Luc Viala (Prince – tenor) Performer: Gabriel Bacquier (The King – bass) Performer: Vincent Le Texier (Leandro – bass-baritone) Performer: Michèle Lagrange (Fata Morgana – soprano) Performer: Didier Henry (Pantaloon – baritone) Performer: Eccentrics; Lowbrows; Courtiers; Empty-Heads; Little Devils (Choeurs de l’opéra de Lyon) Performer: Orchestre de l’opéra de Lyon Performer: Kent Nagano
- Virgin VCD 791084-2.
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Sergey Prokofiev
?The Fiery Angel
Performer: Galina Gorchakova (Renata ) Performer: Sergei Leiferkus (Ruprecht) Performer: Vladimir Galuzin (Agrippa ) Performer: Evgeni Boitsov (Glock ) Performer: Valery Gergiev Performer: Orchestra of the Kirov, St Petersburg
- Philips 446 078-2.
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Sergey Prokofiev
?Le Pas d'Acier
Performer: Igor Markevich Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra
- Warner 0927 49636-2.
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