Browse: Prokofiev - Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 112 (revised version)

Alexei Volodin (in the Fourth) and Sergei Babayan (in the Fifth) approach the fast movements with mercurial wit and dazzling clarity of fingerwork…Gergiev and the Mariinsky accompany with razor-sharp... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Litton’s already fine championship of the composer scales new heights…[his] mastery shows in the immediate contrasts of broad, epic opening and razor sharp Allegro mechanics [in the Fourth]…[in... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra plays with conviction and virtuosity throughout the Sixth. And it's equally adept in the expanded version of the Fourth, which here seems far less structurally... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Gaffigan is relatively brisk [in the Fourth], avoiding slackness, but at the expense of some nuance and opportunities for characterisation, notably in the third movement. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 2 out of 5 stars More…

for once, Prokofiev's Sovietised Fourth does not sound a bombastic and coarsened version of the original; rather, one hears striking and even disturbing echoes of several of his Soviet works...Polished... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 5 out of 5 stars More…