Looking for recommended Prokofiev recordings

[Ciaran]

You'll need piano concertos: unfortunately



Toradze/Gergiev is out of print!

[bombasticDarren]

Cheap as chips and very good.

Agreed :-)

[bombasticDarren]

[DaveF]

Thank you gentlemen. Once again the forum comes up trumps.

Authentic Russian performances of the symphonies, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

I've read some good things about the above and it seems to come highly recommended. I believe its hard to source though. I'll have a look later.

[Seán]

[Jared]

well, just look at what this forum can do when we pull together to help one another! that's really impressive!

I think you'll agree that these days, collectively, the Tir Na members have most bases covered... compare that to where we would have been only 3 years ago, gentlemen... :-))

[Seán]

well, just look at what this forum can do when we pull together to help one another! that's really impressive!

I think you'll agree that these days, collectively, the Tir Na members have most bases covered... compare that to where we would have been only 3 years ago, gentlemen... :-))

I put it down to the influx of very pleasant foreigners.

[Diapason]

Hair-raising piano sonatas in excellent sound

He's not bluffing!

[Ciaran]

Thank you gentlemen. Once again the forum comes up trumps.

Authentic Russian performances of the symphonies, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

I've read some good things about the above and it seems to come highly recommended. I believe its hard to source though. I'll have a look later.

It's on MDT for about €25 here. The link may not work for long: they're launching a new website shortly.

[Ciaran]

A few more:

the Naxos Alexander Nevsky isn't half bad.



A very enjoyable Love for Three Oranges with a team from Russian radio (Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio) conducted by G. Dalgat in about 1960, with surprisingly good sound but unfortunately no libretto:



I was never that keen on his string quartets until I heard the Pavel Haas Quartet play them: