- Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953): War and Peace, Op. 91:
- 1 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91: Overture 04:42
- 2 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 1: The radiance of the sky in spring… (Prince Andrey) 03:40
- 3 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 1: I won't, I can't sleep (Natasha, Prince Andrey, Sonya) 04:58
- 4 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 1: O God, my God! What a shame to sleep! (Natasha, Prince Andrey) 02:57
- 5 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 2: St Petersburg. New Year's Eve 02:37
- 6 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 2: Chorus! Let the chorus begin! (Host, Count Rostov, Akhrosimova, Natasha, Sonya, Hélène, Anatoly, Dolokhov, Footman, Chorus) 04:57
- 7 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 2: Look, the colonel's dancing the mazurka (Peronskaya, Akhrosimova, Hélène, Anatoly, Count Rostov, Dolokhov, Natasha) 02:39
- 8 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 2: Will no one choose me as a partner? (Natasha, Dolokhov, Pierre, Prince Andrey, Count Rostov, Anatoly, Hélène) 02:49
- 9 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 2: When I was at Otradnoye in May (Prince Andrey, Natasha, Count Rostov) 06:51
- 10 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 3: The young Prince's fiancée (Old Footman, Housemaid, Valet, Count Rostov, Natasha, Princess Mariya) 05:19
- 11 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 3: Ah, Madam, young lady… (Prince Bolkonsky, Princess Mariya, Natasha, Count Rostov) 05:55
- 12 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 4: The charming, delightful Natasha (Hélène, Natasha, Count Rostov) 03:18
- 13 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 4: She's wonderful and so beautiful (Natasha, Anatoly, Sonya, Count Rostov) 07:12
- 14 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 5: At ten o'clock in the evening, she'll be waiting (Anatoly, Dolokhov) 04:09
- 15 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 5: Balaga! (Dolokhov, Anatoly, Balaga, Matryosha) 06:15
- 16 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 6: Oh, my dear Miss Natasha, all is lost, it seems (Dunyasha, Natasha, Gavrila, Anatoly, Dolokhov) 03:38
- 17 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 6: A fine young lady you are! (Akhrosimova, Natasha, Gavrila, Pierre) 06:34
- 18 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 6: I've sought to avoid her (Pierre, Natasha, Sonya, Akhrosimova) 11:07
- 19 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 7: Picture the scene, Countess (Métivier, Hélène, Abbé, Pierre, Anatoly, Denisov) 10:49
- 20 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Epigraph: The forces of two and ten European nations (Chorus) 05:21
- 21 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 8: Come on lads! That's the way! (Volunteers, Tikhon, Fyodor, Denisov, Prince Andrey, Matveyev, Vasilisa) 08:27
- 22 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 8: Denisov, her first fiancé (Prince Andrey) 03:27
- 23 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 8: It's the master, look at him! (Fyodor, Trishka, Tikhon, Pierre, Matveyev, Prince Andrey, First General, Second General, Orderly, Chorus) 06:06
- 24 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 8: Hurrah! Hurrah! (Pierre, Chorus) 03:02
- 25 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 8: There is no people greater than ours (Kutuzov, Adjutant, Prince Andrey, First Staff Officer, Second Staff Officer, Chorus) 10:35
- 26 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 9: The wine is uncorked. We must drink it (Napoleon, Compans's Adjutant, Murat's Adjutant, Berthier, Belliard, Prince Eugène's Adjutant, Adjutant from the Retinue, De Beausset, Chorus) 10:25
- 27 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 10: And so, gentlemen, the question is… (Benigsen, Kutuzov, Barclay, Yermolov, Konovnitsyn, Rayevsky) 06:48
- 28 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 10: The enemy bears down on us with fire and steel (Konovnitsyn, Rayevsky, Chorus) 01:13
- 29 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 10: When, oh when was this dreadful business decided? (Kutuzov, Chorus) 09:12
- 30 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 11: Moscow's deserted! (Ramballe, Bonnet, Jacqueau, Gérard, Young Factory Worker, Shopkeeper, Matveyev, Dunyasha, Mavra Kuzminichna, Chorus) 08:14
- 31 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 11: I must do the deed, or die (Pierre, Shopkeeper, Young Factory Worker, Dunyasha, Mavra Kuzminichna) 04:29
- 32 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 11: Where did you get such a good going-over, lads? (Jacqueau, Gérard, Matveyev, Ivanov, Chorus) 02:11
- 33 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 11: Davout, the cruel Davout, the emperor Napoleon's hatchet man! (Pierre, Davout, Officer, Ivanov, Karatayev) 05:16
- 34 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 11: Nothing matters now, nothing (Pierre, Karatayev, Shopkeeper, Ramballe, Bonnet, First Actress, Second Actress, Madmen, Chorus) 06:41
- 35 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 11: What a dreadful scene! (Napoleon, Chorus) 04:13
- 36 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 12: It's stretching higher and further (Prince Andrey, Natasha, Chorus) 08:20
- 37 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 12: Has fate really brought us together so strangely today… (Prince Andrey, Natasha, Chorus) 07:22
- 38 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 13: We've burnt our bridges.. (Ramballe, Bonnet, Pierre, Karatayev, Officer) 05:08
- 39 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 13: Hey! Hey! Hey! (Pierre, Denisov, Fyodor, Tikhon, Dunyasha, Vasilisa, Chorus) 07:27
- 40 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 13: Dolokhov said that Hélène had passed away (Pierre, Denisov) 02:38
- 41 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 13: The Commander-in-chief is coming! (Adjutant, Denisov, Dolokhov, Vasilisa, Fyodor, Tikhon, Dunyasha, Chorus) 01:44
- 42 Prokofiev: War and Peace, Op. 91, Scene 13: The enemy has been put to rout (Kutuzov, Chorus) 06:14
Info for Prokofiev: War And Peace
Chandos's laudable opportunism in digitising a complete recording from a sequence of Spoleto Festival performances has, for the most part, paid off. This is just as well as this must have been a major project; filling a gap in the otherwise plentiful Chandos Prokofiev catalogue.
"Its star is Richard Hickox, who conducts with unflagging energy and lyrical flow, guiding the soloists to pointed characterisation and building up the massed effects of the choral scenes." (Opera News, New York)
"Ekaterina Morozova is a moving Natasha. Slavonic in timbre, weighty but still girlsih enough, with an edge to the voice that rarely turns squally...Roderick Willians is a fresh, virile Andrei, and Justin Lavender a vulnerable-sounding Pierre...Other versions may have starrier individual contributions, but this one has no weak link." (Penguin Guide)
Ekaterina Morozova, soprano (Natasha Rostova)
Roderick Williams, baritone (Andrei Bolkonsky)
Justin Lavender, tenor (Pierre Bezukhov)
Oleg Balashov, baritone (Anatol Kuragin)
Pamela Helen Stephen, soprano (Sonya)
Catherine Pierard, mezzo-soprano (Maria, Bolkonsky/Vassilissa)
Igor Matioukhin, baritone (Dolokhov)
Elena Ionova, mezzo-soprano (Helena Bezukhova)
Alan Ewing, bass (Marshal Kutuzov)
Stephen Dupont, bass (Ilya Rostov)
Thomas Guthrie, baritone (Vasska Denisov)
Vladimir Ognev, bass (Nikolai Bolkonsky)
Victoria Livengood, contralto (Maria Akhrosimova)
Neil Jenkins, tenor (Platon Karatayev)
Alan Opie, baritone (Bonaparte)
Russian State Symphonic Cappella
Spoleto Festival Orchestra
Richard Hickox, conductor
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