Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
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Free Music Notes for Sergei Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky
Free Music Review: Good, but not the best Nevsky recording.
Hit: 4 Stars
This CD is good, and if you want the multimedia, you won't find it on other recordings.Only one complaint, but it's major: The shrieking violins that are heard as the Germans ride across the frozen lake are treated as an accent to the bassoons and the rest of the orchestra. They are almost in the background.
They should be right out in front, good and loud, sending chills down your spine! This is the only recording of Nevsky I have heard treat it that way, and if you've grown up hearing it the "right" way, it's a bit anticlimactic.
If you put a good recording of this in, and drive on an uncrowded freeway, check your speedometer half-way through the ride across the lake. Mine's usually around 90!
Free Music Review: Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky/Yuri Temirkanov
Hit: 4 Stars
Having heard been treated to a performance of this work with film by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Temirkanov conducting I purchased this CD in '97. It was great that this enhanced CD had commentary, played the music and let you view some of the video. It was great educationally. Now it is technologically out dated. It will not play on newer computers Window or Mac, since it only works under QT 2 and it will not play on my DVD player that has replaced my CD player.