TRACKLISTING

CD 1
Alexander Nevsky — Cantata, op.78
(Van Nes/OSM/Dutoit)
Lieutenant Kijé — Symphonic Suite, op.60
(OSM/Dutoit)
Love for Three Oranges — Suite, op.33a
(OSM/Dutoit)

CD 2
Dreams, op.6
(COA/Ashkenazy)
Visions fugitives, op.22
(arr. Barshai) (ASMIF/Marriner)
The Stone Flower — excerpts from complete ballet, op.118
(OSR/Varviso)

RECORDING INFORMATION

5 March 2003 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev and this programme is being released to coincide with that. The programme includes such rarities as the early orchestral tone-poem Dreams and excerpts from the equally rarely heard Stone Flower. One of Prokofiev's early piano works, Visions fugitives, is also included here but in the version for string orchestra by Rudolf Barshai. To complement these rare pieces some of the composer’s most popular works are included and these include the suites from Lieutenant Kijé and Love for Three Oranges. Both these and the cantata originally written as film music for Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky are performed by Charles Dutoit and the Orchestra symphonique de Montréal in magnificent digital recordings made in the early 1990s.