Dorian Recordings
DOR-90169
ALEXANDER NEVSKY CANTATA
SHOSTAKOVICH
SYMPHONY NO.9 OP.70
DALLAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
EDUARDO MATA, CONDUCTOR
DALLAS SYMPHONY CHORUS
MARIANA PAUNOVA, CONTRALTO
Only seven years separate the composition of Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky Cantata (1938) and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9 (1945). What happened during the interim, however, irrevocably changed not only the lives of both composers, but the course of modern history: World War II. It should hardly be surprising, then, that both works serve as a commentary on that watershed event. Prokofiev (1891-1953) wrote his score for Sergei Eisenstein's nationalistic and intensely anti-German film Alexander Nevsky when anxiety over a Nazi attack upon the Soviet Union was building to a feverish pitch. Shostakovich (1906-1975) composed his Ninth Symphony in 1945, soon after the Red Army had triumphantly entered Berlin and the exhausting Allied victory over Nazi Germany was finally secured.
- Harlow Robinson
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SERGEY PROKOFIEV (1891-1953) Alexander Nevsky Cantata (1938) [1] Russia Under the Mongolian Yoke [2] Song about Alexander Nevsky [3] The Crusaders in Pskov [4] Arise, Ye Russian People [5] The Battle on Ice [6] Field of the Dead [7] Alexander's Entry into Pskov DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH (1906-1975) Symphony No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 70 (1945) [8] Allegro [9] Moderato [10] Presto [11] Largo [12] Allegretto |
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