Genre: Film Score
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Prelude
13th Century
Plescheyevo Lake
Pskov in Flames
Death to the Blasphemer!
Arise, people of Russia
The Teutonic Camp
Nevsky's Camp: Night before the Battle
Battle on the Ice
April 5, 1242
Fight for Russia!
Spears and Arrows
Duel with the Grand Master
The Battle is Won
The Ice Breaks
Field of the Dead
Pskov: Procession of the Fallen & Judgement of the Prisoners
And now let's celebrate!
Final Chorus
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1986
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Composed for the film directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
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Prokofiev's film score reconstructed by William Brohn in 1986.
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Vocal Roles: contralto.
Orchestration: orchestra and chorus.
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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Film Score
Artist(s): Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya (mezzo-soprano)
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Capella, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, St. Petersburg Teleradio Chorus
Catalog Num: BMG/RCA Victor 61926
With this release, we at last get to hear the original 1938 film score to Nevsky -- well, more or less the original film score. Prokofiev wrote music for the Eisenstein film for a studio-sized orchestra, which was far smaller in number than the modern orchestra. (In watching the movie, you can hardly tell from the execrable soundtrack how large the ensemble is, or at times even how well it is playing.) In 1986 orchestrator William Brohn was engaged by this recording's executive producer, John Goberman, to expand Prokofiev's score to a full-sized orchestral work. It must be noted that a few emendations were made. Goberman wanted an overture to introduce the work; so Brohn pieced together music from the cantata to come up with an effective opening number. A few other minor changes excepted, everything else is pretty much a literal translation of studio-sized Prokofiev into normal-sized Prokofiev. Shortly after Brohn produced the score Vladimir Askenazy, Andre Previn, and Mstislav Rostropovich conducted various orchestras in performances of the score to showings of the film. But, incredibly, not one of these notable figures recorded it. The task was left to Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. The results are impressive, from the music itself to the performance to RCA's splendid sonics.
[Robert Cummings]
[ Read the complete review... ]
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Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Film Score
Composer(s): Sergei Prokofiev
Artist(s): Yevgenia Gorokhovskaya (mezzo-soprano)
Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov
Orchestra/Ensemble: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, St. Petersburg Capella, St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, St. Petersburg Teleradio Chorus
Catalog Num: BMG/RCA Victor 61926
Release Date: March 14, 1995
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