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'...it's only a couple of years since the Sao Paulo was referred to as an 'emerging orchestra', yet here they are, heading for a Royal Albert Hall Prom with Alsop in the Summer. Here they come with their first recording, the opening shot in a cycle of Prokofiev's seven Symphonies...they are a fine orchestra and this is an electric performance of Prokofiev Five: it's majestic, witty, characterful, fast, keen and lean. Clearly a hungry band, they remind me a bit of the BBC SSO.' --Sunday Herald, 27th May 2012
'Alsop, now in her mid-fifties, is riding the crest of a wave. This new release should lift her even higher, as well as win new friends for the São Paulo orchestra, a first-class ensemble, if this new CD is anything to go by. Even if you already have several Prokofiev Fifths, you need to make room for this one.' IRR OUTSTANDING --International Record Review, June 2012
'This album, promised as the first in a new symphonic cycle, certainly starts with a bang, though unexpectedly with The Year 1941... The Fifth Symphony comes up trumps in a dramatic yet highly polished performance... Altogether, this first volume of Prokofiev is an outstanding achievement.' ORCHESTRAL CHOICE --BBC Music Magazine, Daniel Jaffe, July 2012
T'he performance of the symphony is one of considerable power...as this is the first disk of a planned serious of all the Prokofiev symphonies, Alsop is the ideal conductor to make it happen' --Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph 14th July 2012
'Alsop, now in her mid-fifties, is riding the crest of a wave. This new release should lift her even higher, as well as win new friends for the São Paulo orchestra, a first-class ensemble, if this new CD is anything to go by. Even if you already have several Prokofiev Fifths, you need to make room for this one.' IRR OUTSTANDING --International Record Review, June 2012
'This album, promised as the first in a new symphonic cycle, certainly starts with a bang, though unexpectedly with The Year 1941... The Fifth Symphony comes up trumps in a dramatic yet highly polished performance... Altogether, this first volume of Prokofiev is an outstanding achievement.' ORCHESTRAL CHOICE --BBC Music Magazine, Daniel Jaffe, July 2012
T'he performance of the symphony is one of considerable power...as this is the first disk of a planned serious of all the Prokofiev symphonies, Alsop is the ideal conductor to make it happen' --Geoffrey Norris, The Daily Telegraph 14th July 2012
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Symphonie n°5 - L'Année 1941, suite symphonique, op. 90 / Orchestre Symphonique de Sao Paolo - Marin Alsop, direction
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This release crept out in the late Spring schedules; no great fanfares. Even the presentation doesn't exactly shout out to be noticed; you could easily overlook this CD whilst looking for a Prokofiev 5.
Don't. This is an outstanding new recording of Prokofiev's most popular symphony. From the very opening, this is clearly an orchestra of the first class. Not only is the playing very fine, it is totally committed. This is one of those rare releases where there is the electricity of a live performance, although it is in fact a studio recording, made in the excellent acoustics of the Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil. Marin Alsop has a fine track record of recordings for Naxos, with the R.S.N.O., Bournemouth and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras (although I do not entirely share the adulation given to the accounts of the last three Dvorak symphonies, which sound rather ordinary to me). Alsop has clearly thought out her approach to Prokofiev 5 and allows detail to emerge; an example is the plaintive woodwind figure in the second movement, taken slower than is usual. The final movement has an underlying drive, although it's not taken particularly quickly, and has an unusually fatalistic final blow.
Naxos has done it again; a brilliant combination of orchestra and conductor, recorded in excellent sound (every bit as good as the fine BIS recordings from this orchestra and hall), plenty of depth, space and range. Wonderful stuff. And the even better news is that this team is recording the whole Prokofiev symphonic cycle; we badly need a really fine recording of Prokofiev's greatest symphony, the Sixth; my favourite performance, Mravinsky and the Leningrad Phil., suffers from all sorts of recording problems.
So, don't hesitate.
No matter how many Prokofiev Fifths you have, you must hear this.
Don't. This is an outstanding new recording of Prokofiev's most popular symphony. From the very opening, this is clearly an orchestra of the first class. Not only is the playing very fine, it is totally committed. This is one of those rare releases where there is the electricity of a live performance, although it is in fact a studio recording, made in the excellent acoustics of the Sala Sao Paulo, Brazil. Marin Alsop has a fine track record of recordings for Naxos, with the R.S.N.O., Bournemouth and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras (although I do not entirely share the adulation given to the accounts of the last three Dvorak symphonies, which sound rather ordinary to me). Alsop has clearly thought out her approach to Prokofiev 5 and allows detail to emerge; an example is the plaintive woodwind figure in the second movement, taken slower than is usual. The final movement has an underlying drive, although it's not taken particularly quickly, and has an unusually fatalistic final blow.
Naxos has done it again; a brilliant combination of orchestra and conductor, recorded in excellent sound (every bit as good as the fine BIS recordings from this orchestra and hall), plenty of depth, space and range. Wonderful stuff. And the even better news is that this team is recording the whole Prokofiev symphonic cycle; we badly need a really fine recording of Prokofiev's greatest symphony, the Sixth; my favourite performance, Mravinsky and the Leningrad Phil., suffers from all sorts of recording problems.
So, don't hesitate.
No matter how many Prokofiev Fifths you have, you must hear this.
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i can't compare this recording with others as I've not heard any others. I bought this because I like Prokofiev and I heard a snatch of the symphony on the radio. My expectations have been well met.
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By Philip Chadwick
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I bought this on the strength of excellent reviews in the music press - I am not adding it to my Russian shelves to go alongside my Shostakoviches, Stravinskys and Myaskovskys
The Symphony just makes me want to dig out a Shostakovich - it is like something he may have written on a not very good day.
The Year 1941 leaves me cold - it reminds me of film music, something is missing
Straight down to the charity shop I'm afraid - didn't even rip it!
The Symphony just makes me want to dig out a Shostakovich - it is like something he may have written on a not very good day.
The Year 1941 leaves me cold - it reminds me of film music, something is missing
Straight down to the charity shop I'm afraid - didn't even rip it!
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