Title: Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 / The Year 1941
Released: 2011
Genre: Classical
Conductor: Marin Alsop
Artist: São Paulo Symphony Orchestra

Description:

Written in 1944, Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony is one of his greatest and most complete symphonic statements. At its première he himself called it "a symphony of the grandeur of the human spirit." The first movement. After a violent scherzo, followed by a slow movement of sustained lyricism, with a fiercely dramatic middle section, the finale blazes with barely suppressed passion. The Year 1941 is another wartime work, a symphonic suite written in response to the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

Recorded at the Sala São Paulo, Brazil, from 26th to 31st August, 2011.

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
The Year 1941, Op. 90 (Symphonic Suite) (1941)
1 In the Struggle 4:38
2 In the Night 4:14
3 For the Brotherhood of Man 6:14
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100 (1944)
4 Andante 13:39
5 Allegro marcato 9:11
6 Adagio 12:09
7 Allegro giocoso 9:39

Issued: United States | Naxos
Duration: 00:59:41