Latest update: Due to disruptions after a recent warehouse move by the UK’s largest music distributor, the supply of various labels including Decca, DG, Sony, and Harmonia Mundi are subject to significant delays. Please continue to order products from these labels, as the situation should be back to normal within the next few weeks. This is affecting all UK music retailers at the present time. If you have any questions please do contact us.
Browse: Blu-Ray Video, Prokofiev (composer)
Return to Blu-Ray Video.
-
Prokofiev: The Gambler, Op. 24
Misha Didyk (Alexei), Kristine Opolais (Polina), Vladimir Ognovenko (General), Stefania Toczyska (Babulenka), Stephan Rügamer (The Marquis), Sylvia de la Muela (Blanche), Viktor Rud (Mr Astley)
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor) & Dmitri Tcherniakov (stage director)
Barenboim's crystal-clear pacing of the score is hard-hitting rather than quicksilvery, but the payoff in the last Act is terrific, and the blue-lit look of it all - Tcherniakov designed it,... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - DVD Performance
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2010, DVD of the Month
-
Opera, July 2010, Recording of the Month
-
-
Prokofiev: Semyon Kotko, Op. 81
RecommendedViktor Lutsyuk (Semyon Kotko), Gennadi Bezzubenkov (Tkachenko), Tatiana Pavlovskaya (Sofya), Varvara Solovyova (Frosya) & Evgeny Nikitin (Remenyuk)
Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus, Valery Gergiev (conductor) & Yuri Alexandrov (stage director)
Pavlovskaya makes a bright-voiced heroine among a strong supporting cast ... it gains from Gergiev’s crisp direction. — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
DVD Video + Blu-ray
$15.00 -
-
Prokofiev: Cinderella, Op. 87
Diana Vishneva (Cinderella) & Vladimir Shklyarov (The Prince)
Mariinsky Ballet & Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
this new disc from the Mariinsky certainly offers us an interesting new perspective on Cinderella along with first-rate performances that have been recorded in excellent quality picture and sound.... — More…
DVD Video + Blu-ray
$15.00 -
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
Yasmine Naghdi, Matthew Ball, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Pavel Sorokin
-
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64
Diana Vishneva (Juliet), Vladimir Shklyarov (Romeo), Alexander Sergeyev (Mercutio), Ilya Kuznetsov (Tybalt) & Islom Baimurado (Benvolio)
Mariinsky Ballet & Mariinsky Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
DVD Video + Blu-ray
$15.00 -
The Highest Level: Prokofiev 3 and Bartok 2
The Making of an Extraordinary Recording
Lang Lang (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
Lang Lang has the necessary power and athleticism to bring tremendous energy and drive to [Prokofiev's] more motoric writing...[he] sails through the passagework [of the Bartok] with exemplary... — More…
-
Ballet For Children
Miyako Yoshida (The Sugar Plum Fairy), Ricardo Cervera/Steven McRae (Nephew/Nutcracker), Steven McRae (The Prince), Gary Avis (Drosselmeyer) & Iohna Loots (Clara), Sergei Polunin (The Wolf), Will Kemp (Grandfather), Kilian Smith (Peter), Charlotte Edmonds (Duck), Laurine Muccioli (Bird) &...
-
A Romantic Take - Martha Argerich & Guy Braunstein in Concert
Guy Braunstein (violin), Martha Argerich (piano)
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
-
-
Prokofiev: The Fiery Angel
Leigh Melrose (Ruprecht), Ewa Vesin (Renata), Anna Victorova (The Landlady), Mairam Sokolova (Fortune-teller/Mother Superior), Sergey Radchenko (Agrippa of Nettesheim), Andrii Ganchuk (Johann Faust/The Servant), Maxim Paster (Mephistopheles), Goran Juric (The Inquisitor), Domingo Pellicola (Jacob...
If anyone might have rebuilt the opera’s reputation it is the director Emma Dante...The cast, mostly Russian in the middle ranks, are good too. The Polish soprano Ewa Vesin tackles the hugely... — More…
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Video Performance
-
-
Prokofiev: The Gambler, Op. 24
Sergei Aleksashkin (The General), Tatiana Pavlovskaya (Pauline), Vladimir Galuzin (Alexei), Larissa Dyadkova (Babulenka), Nikolai Gassiev (Marquis), Alexander Gergalov (Mr Astley), Mlle Blanche (Nadezhda Serdyuk), Andrei Popov (Prince Nilsky), Oleg Sychev (Baron Wurmerhelm) & Andrei Spekhov (Potapych)
Mariinsky...
Gergiev conducts with exemplary clarity but not the requisite volatility — More…
