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SERGEI PROKOFIEV
(1891-1953)
Suite from 'The Buffoon', Op. 21a
35:24
(Chout)
1.
1
The Buffoon and His Wife
3:34
2.
2
Dance of the Wives
3:19
3.
3
Fugue. The Buffoons Kill Their Wives
3:03
4.
4
The Buffoon as a Young Woman
3:48
5.
5
Third Entr'acte
1:52
6.
6
Dance of the Buffoons' Daughters
2:30
7.
7
Entry of the Merchant and His Welcome
4:09
8.
8
In the Merchants' Bedroom
2:10
9.
9
The Young Woman Becomes a Goat
2:22
10.
10
Fifth Entr'acte and the Goat's Burial
3:13
11.
11
The Buffoon and the Merchant Quarrel
1:37
12.
12
Final Dance
3:42
Suite from 'The Love for Three Oranges', Op. 33a
15:21
13.
1
The Clowns
2:55
14.
2
The Magician and the Witch Play Cards
3:44
15.
3
March
1:36
16.
4
Scherzo
1:23
17.
5
The Prince and the Princess
3:29
18.
6
The Flight
2:12
Waltz Suite, Op. 110
28:57
19.
1
Since We Met, from War and Peace
6:01
20.
2
In the Palace, from Cinderella
5:31
21.
3
Mephisto Waltz, from Lermontov
3:40
22.
4
End of the Fairy Tale, from Cinderella
4:34
23.
5
New Year's Eve Ball, from War and Peace
5:52
24.
6
Happiness, from Cinderella
3:17
79:58
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor:Neeme Järvi
18 August 1985 (Waltz Suite Nos 1, 3 and 4)
25 and 26 August 1984 (Waltz Suite Nos 2, 5 and 6) & 28 and 29 September 1985 (other works)
Notes
PROKOFIEV: SUITE FROM ‘THE BUFFOON’ / WALTZ SUITE / SUITE FROM ‘THE LOVE FOR THREE ORANGES’
High Performance Review wrote on the original release of this recording of the Suite from The Buffoon, ‘Prokofiev’s ballet score The Buffoon was written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes but it’s doubtful that any ballet company has ever danced to such vivid raucous playing as Järvi inspires in this concert suite. Chandos has blessed the Scottish National Orchestra with bright, airy, near demonstration quality sounds, and Järvi provides an enthusiastic reading that sparkles with an abundance of characterful wit and dances with good humour’. Completing the disc are a suite from The Love for Three Oranges and the Waltz Suite, a little known later waltz compilation. ‘Järvi and his orchestra produce brilliantly exciting performances, which are stunningly recorded’, wrote Australian Hi-Fi and Music Review.
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In this performance [The Buffoon] both conductor and orchestra rise splendidly to the occasion: here is an impressive realisation of the character studies that make up the Suite
International Record Review
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