Scythian Suite / Alexander Nevsky
Album by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev & Ludmila Schemtchuk & DR SymfoniOrkestret & Danish National Radio Choir & Dmitri Kitayenko
Scythian Suite / Alexander Nevsky is a recording of orchestral works by Sergei Prokofiev, originally composed in 1915 and in 1938–39. The pairing contrasts the raw, percussive textures and driving rhythms of Prokofiev's early modernist orchestral writing with the later, more programme-driven, choral and cinematic style he employed in his Soviet-era music, illustrating a shift in his compositional focus and his engagement with larger narrative forms.
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- 1.Scythian Suite, Op 20 : I The Adoration of Veless and Ala8:19
- 2.Scythian Suite, Op 20 : II The Enemy God and the dance of the Spirits of Darkness3:35
- 3.Scythian Suite, Op 20 : III Night5:52
- 4.Scythian Suite, Op 20 : IV The glorious departure of Lolly and the Sun's procession5:50
- 5.Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 : I Russia under the Mongolian Yoke2:52
- 6.Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 : II Song about Alexander Nevsky3:16
- 7.Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 : III The Crusaders in Pskov6:35
- 8.Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 : IV Arise, ye Russian People2:27
- 9.Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 : V The Battle on Ice13:10
- 10.Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 : VI The Field of the Dead6:16
- 11.Alexander Nevsky, Op 78 : VII Alexander's Entry into Pskov4:40
