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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Myaskovsky Symphony No. 21

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There can be no doubt what really matters here – a powerful and revelatory take on a masterpiece, Prokofiev’s Fifth. Its schizoid nature – epic and parody in alarming alternation – is highlighted... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 27th Nov 2020
Catalogue No: LWC1207
Label: LAWO
Length: 62 minutes

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Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100

Work length47:18

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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

I. Andante

Track length14:13

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II. Allegro marcato

Track length8:58

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III. Adagio

Track length14:26

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IV. Allegro giocoso

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Miaskovsky: Symphony No. 21 in F sharp minor, Op. 51

Work length15:13

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Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra
Vasily Petrenko

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Prokofiev described his Fifth Symphony, his first composition in this genre for sixteen years, as the culmination of an entire period in my work. I conceived it as a symphony on the grandeur of the human spirit. He regarded this symphony, composed in the summer of 1944, as his finest work. Nikolai Myaskovsky (18811950) was certainly one of the most prolific symphonic composers of the twentieth century. He was born in Novo-Georgievsk, which was then part of the Polish territories of the Tsarist empire. He took private tuition with Gliere in Moscow, then, having decided to devote himself to composition, studied with Rimsky-Korsakov and Lyadov at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, while establishing what would prove to be a life-long friendship with Prokofiev. His earliest composition was a group of piano preludes (1896-8) but it was not until 1908 that he wrote the first of his twenty-seven symphonies. Myaskovsky's Symphony No. 21, sub-titled Symphony-Fantasy in F sharp minor, dates from 1940, composed in response to a commission from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Vasily is one of the most acclaimed classical recording artists alive and has won numerous accolades for his recordings of Russian repertoire, including two Gramophone awards. With the Oslo Philharmonic, he has recorded Shostakovich and Szymanowski concertos, Romeo and Juliet by Prokofiev, as well as two major cycles of orchestral works by Alexander Scriabin and Richard Strauss respectively. Under Mariss Jansons, the Oslo Philharmonic orchestra became a rival to the great Philharmonics of Vienna, Berlin and New York and now has a modern, permanent concert hall of its own in Oslo. This latest recording from the fabled Petrenko and Oslo Philharmonic partnership continues their successful series of recordings for Lawo Classics, critically acclaimed worldwide.

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February 2021

There can be no doubt what really matters here – a powerful and revelatory take on a masterpiece, Prokofiev’s Fifth. Its schizoid nature – epic and parody in alarming alternation – is highlighted by first and third movements stretched almost to breaking point, but with dynamic and textural detail keeping expressiveness and pathos afloat, the sonic extremes superbly handled in another engineering triumph by Lawo. The grotesquerie and the menace have never been better done.

January 2021

Prokofiev’s Fifth communicates readily to modern audiences but Vasily Petrenko keeps us guessing...Tension builds patiently, affirmation seldom unclouded. Some may miss the saturated strings and outsize tam-tam of Herbert von Karajan’s Berlin Philharmonic (DG, 6/69). Then again, Oslo’s lean, tensile violin desks rarely obscure the grainier contributions of woodwind and tuba.

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 & Myaskovsky Symphony No. 21

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