This page lists all recordings of Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111, by Sergei Sergeievitch Prokofiev (1891-1953) on CD, SACD & download (MP3 & FLAC). Generally, more recent releases are listed first, but with priority given to those that are in stock. |
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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Prokofiev: Symphony No. 6
A popular programme of works including the orchestral suite for the film score of Lieutenant Kijé. The original film score contains two songs which are often performed by solo saxophone and orchestra but are recorded here in their original (but seldom heard) version for baritone voice. With acclaimed previous recordings of music by Prokofiev, as well as Stravinsky, Mendelssohn and most recently Rachmaninov, Andrew Litton and his Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra are a tried-and-tested team in this repertoire. They make the most of the enormous palette of colours and moods provided by these three scores. The orchestra has toured extensively in the UK at the beginning of the year, and Litton has appeared on several radio programmes including a Radio 3 documentary and in-Tune. “Litton’s Bergen forces project the score’s steely punch and spare scoring with aplomb...You’d pay full price for the symphony alone. Litton generously provides bonuses in the form of spry, witty performances of the suites...Brilliant BIS sonics add to the impact.” The Arts Desk, 30th March 2013 “Melancholy and menace...Litton shows profound sympathy for both of them...The orchestra seems to have flourished durings its decade under Litton: its sheen is seductive, balances and ensemble are expert, dynamics are artfully shaded and the solo parts are delivered with sensitivity and colour...an auspicious release.” International Record Review, May 2013 “This is the best recorded sound this symphony has received to date...Litton knows exactly how to make the most of it, when to dwell on detail and when to propel the argument forward...Litton directs the symphonic suite with a close eye on the rhythmic subtleties of Prokofiev's score.” MusicWeb International, 2nd May 2013 “Litton and his orchestra sound nimble, translucent and just a tad underpowered. Then again, with relatively few fluctuations of tempo within the unforced pulse set for each movement, the clarity of the argument is never in doubt.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2013 “Prokofiev's most profound slow movement has the proper Wagnerian breadth...Litton's work on detail here is unstinting, and it pays off in the whirling dissolve as Lieutenant Kijé, the soldier who never was, is 'buried' in the ingeniously scored suite.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2013 **** | 
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Arguably Prokofiev’s best symphonic work, the 6th symphony receives an electric and idiosyncratic rendering by Mravinsky and his Russian forces. Heifetz’s interpretation of the second violin concerto has long been considered a classic. Super budget price. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6
This new release features the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Sakari Oramo performing Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6. These two symphonies, composed in 1944 and 1947, are very different in mood, but stylistically closely related. The Fifth was written amid the chaos of the Second World War and seeks to find a positive solution; but in the Sixth, completed soon after war, the mood is darker. Both feature Prokofiev’s melodic writing at its best. Sakari Oramo, following his tenure as Chief Conductor of the CBSO, served as chief conductor of the Finnish RSO from 2003 to 2012. As of autumn 2013 he will be the chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. With the Finnish RSO, he has won considerable critical acclaim from recordings of 20th-century and contemporary Finnish repertoire. “Oramo invests the expansive opening andante [of the Fifth] and intense, emotional adagio with rare power and authority...[He] guides us through its devastated landscape with clarity and compassion.” The Observer, 16th September 2012 “Aided by a clean and unfussy recorded acoustic, Oramo and the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra bring out the work's remarkable colours and character. In the second movement one senses the Symphony's deliberate hesitations, and those moments where certainties are undermined by a curdled harmony or a baleful brass fanfare.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 *** | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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This and the other two 2-CD sets - 4800830 and 4800837 - represent all of Ansermet's Prokofiev recordings for Decca (with the exception of a mono recording of the March and Scherzo from The Love for Three Oranges). Both the Paris Conservatoire and the Suisse Romande versions of the 'Classical' Symphony are included. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Prokofiev - Symphonies
Prokofiev: | Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical' London Symphony Orchestra Autumnal sketch, Op. 8 London Symphony Orchestra Overture on Hebrew Themes, for clarinet, string quartet & piano, Op. 34 Puddy (clarinet), Ashkenazy (piano), Gabrieli Quartet Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100 Concertgebouw Orchestra Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111 The Cleveland Orchestra Symphony No. 7 in C sharp minor, Op. 131 The Cleveland Orchestra |
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| |  | Prokofiev: Works for Orchestra, Vol. 2
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| |  | Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 6 & 7
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"Järvi shapes its detail as skilfully as he does its architecture as a whole" 3* | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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“...the intensity of feeling is so often right.” Gramophone Magazine | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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