Alexander Nevsky

Album by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev & London Symphony Orchestra & Elena Obraztsova & Claudio Abbado

Alexander Nevsky is a film score and cantata by Russian composer Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, composed in 1938 and arranged for concert performance as a cantata in 1939. The work combines choral writing, orchestral sonorities and folk-inspired motifs, with driving rhythms, modal harmonies and vivid orchestration, and represents a key example of Prokofiev's vocal-orchestral output in the late 1930s that engages with historical and nationalist themes.
First released: 1980

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Alexander Nevsky, op. 78: I. Russia Under the Mongolian Yoke
    3:09
  2. 2.
    Alexander Nevsky, op. 78: II. Song about Alexander Nevsky
    3:32
  3. 3.
    Alexander Nevsky, op. 78: III. The Crusaders in Pskov
    6:40
  4. 4.
    Alexander Nevsky, op. 78: IV. Arise, Ye Russian People
    2:20
  5. 5.
    Alexander Nevsky, op. 78: V. The Battle on Ice
    12:04
  6. 6.
    Alexander Nevsky, op. 78: VI. Field of the Dead
    6:01
  7. 7.
    Alexander Nevsky, op. 78: VII. Alexander's entry into Pskov
    4:49

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