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Program Info: Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest Riccardo Chailly, conductor Ekaterina Semenchuk, mezzo-soprano Large Broadcasting Choir
Riccardo Chailly leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in colourful works by Prokofiev, with the Groot Omroepkoor and mezzo-soprano Ekaterine Semenchuk in the cantata Alexander Nevsky.
The second movement of the symphony is one of the most beautiful hidden gems in orchestral history.
Film music, ballets, symphonies - Prokofiev could go in any direction and was rarely short of catchy melodies. The orchestral wizard is given a podium of honour by Riccardo Chailly with the compelling cantata Alexander Nevski will be played , in which the Concertgebouw Orchestra is joined by the Groot Omroepkoor and the celebrated mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Semenchuk. Before the interval, Prokofiev's adventurous, much-too-unknown Fourth Symphony .
Alexander Nevsky was the result of a special collaboration between composer Sergei Prokofiev and film director Sergei Eisenstein, who greatly admired each other. Prokofiev forged the best pieces from the soundtrack into a flowery orchestrated cantata, with songs full of tragedy, tension and folk melodies.
In his Fourth Symphony from 1930, Prokofiev reused material from a never-finished ballet. Riccardo Chailly conducts the second, much improved version from 1947. The second movement is one of the most beautiful hidden gems in orchestral history.
Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No. 4 (1947 version)
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Sergei Prokofiev - Alexander Nevski (cantate) Opus 78: music from the score of the 1938 Eisenstein movie
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