The heavy presence of Russian and Ukrainian conductors in Britain these days has produced a nice run of recordings that continues here. If you're thinking that Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra have already recorded Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 in C major, you're right, but it was the rarely heard 1930 version. Here the musicians take on the 1947 revision, which is really a different work, adding nearly 15 minutes to the original and bringing it in line with Prokofiev's rather ...
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The heavy presence of Russian and Ukrainian conductors in Britain these days has produced a nice run of recordings that continues here. If you're thinking that Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra have already recorded Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 in C major, you're right, but it was the rarely heard 1930 version. Here the musicians take on the 1947 revision, which is really a different work, adding nearly 15 minutes to the original and bringing it in line with Prokofiev's rather expansive late symphonic style. You also get a relatively light and colorful Symphony No. 6 in E flat minor, Op. 111, and best of all, a Symphonic fragment written by the 11-year-old Prokofiev in 1902 and dedicated to Reinhold Glière. Karabits, in the interview-format notes, discounts the idea that you can hear the mature Prokofiev in this little movement, but its clear classical outlines surely do point (which he does allow) to the Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ("Classical"). In the two...
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