Prokofiev: Symphonies Nos. 1 'Classical', 2, 3 (2020)

Conductor Andrew Litton's cycle of Prokofiev's symphonies with the Bergen Philharmonic wraps up with this release, featuring the composer's first three. The orchestra has received high marks for performances of this music in which it perhaps punched a bit above its weight. The situation continues here, with a dry, pristine Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ("Classical"), Prokofiev's apotheosis of a neoclassicism that would run for 30 more years without really exceeding this high-water mark. Litton drills the strings and ... Read More

Conductor Andrew Litton's cycle of Prokofiev's symphonies with the Bergen Philharmonic wraps up with this release, featuring the composer's first three. The orchestra has received high marks for performances of this music in which it perhaps punched a bit above its weight. The situation continues here, with a dry, pristine Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 ("Classical"), Prokofiev's apotheosis of a neoclassicism that would run for 30 more years without really exceeding this high-water mark. Litton drills the strings and gets clean lines in the first movement's second subject and the barely-slow Larghetto second movement, and the whole performance has a bracing quality. The anti-chronological organization of Litton's set is due to the fact that the Symphony No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40, and Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 44, are perhaps the outliers in the cycle of seven; critics of the Symphony No. 2 included Prokofiev himself, who remarked, "When I listen to it myself, I do not fathom its essence, so what... Read Less

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