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VA - Milestones of a Legend: Sergei Prokofiev (2018)

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VA - Milestones of a Legend: Sergei Prokofiev (2018)

VA - Milestones of a Legend: Sergei Prokofiev (2018)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 2.9 GB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 1.4 GB
10:53:38 | Classical | Label: DOCUMENTS

Sergei Prokofiev is a prominent figure in music history and one of the most talked-about composers of his time. As the protagonist of a new era, he mixed up the international music scene in the first decades of the 20th century. Prokofiev, who had at first violently attacked the musical traditions of Romanticism and created works that "could not be removed from the world" (as H. C. Schonberg formulated it), later became almost a romantic". This development can be traced by listening to the 14 original albums from the years 1954 to 1961 on this documentation. It includes all of his piano-, violin- and cello-concertos, as well as his complete piano sonatas - a genre that the composer studied for over forty years - as well as the five most important symphonies, including his world-famous "Classic" (Fricsay 1954) and the extraordinarily popular Symphony No. 5 under George Szell from 1959.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung - Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - Highlights (1994)

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Myung-Whun Chung - Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - Highlights (1994)

Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet - Highlights (1994)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung

EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 228 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 146 Mb | Scans ~ 54 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | # 439 870-2 | Time: 01:03:22

Rather than play any single complete suite (of the three) that Prokofiev extracted from the complete ballet, Myung-Whun Chung makes his own selection of numbers, roughly following the plot line and including music representative of all the major characters. Although some other collections offer more music, this hour of Romeo and Juliet makes a satisfying presentation on its own. What makes the performance special is the spectacular playing of the Dutch orchestra. Frankly, it's never been done better. From the whiplash virtuosity of the violins to the bite of the trombones and the firm thud of the bass drum, this is the sound the composer must have dreamed of.

Denis Kozhukhin - Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 6-8 'The War Sonatas' (2013)

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Denis Kozhukhin - Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 6-8 'The War Sonatas' (2013)

Denis Kozhukhin - Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 6-8 'The War Sonatas' (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 253 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 178 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Onyx | # ONYX4111 | Time: 01:15:29

26 year-old Denis Kozhukhin arrives on the recording scene fully-fledged, like Athena springing from the head of Zeus. Intellect is central: I’ve never heard so much revelatory detail in Prokofiev’s triptych of dark and painful masterpieces. Kozhukhin has a way of bringing out the detail of the inner parts, or even a usually inconsequential-seeming bass line, that highlights the drama instead of distracting from it; there’s so much internal play in the droll march-scherzo of the Sixth Sonata, so much genius revealed about the way Prokofiev elaborates or dislocates the minuet theme at the heart of the Eighth. The touch is one that the composer-pianist would probably applaud: clear rather than dry, recorded with superb presence and ringing treble, bringing in the sustaining pedal with mesmerising care only to nuance the more pensive themes.

Antonio Vivaldi & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Sergei Prokofiev - Winter Classical (2021)

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Antonio Vivaldi & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Sergei Prokofiev - Winter Classical (2021)

Antonio Vivaldi & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky & Sergei Prokofiev - Winter Classical (2021)
WEB FLAC (Tracks) 635 MB | Cover | 02:36:30 | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 360 MB
Classical | Label: UMG Recordings, Inc.

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718−1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention).