Prokofiev Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Rev
Shostakovich The Sun Shines over our Motherland

Kirill Kondrashin/Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
RSFSR Russian Chorus
Boys Choir of Moscow Choir School

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Things could have gone to hell in a handcart with the first black-hearted piled high chord in the Prokofiev. However the CD renders the moment with total fidelity and security. The singing is large, passionate, raw and full blooded. The choir takes on the massed voice of The People in all its illimitable power. The brass roar and gallop at 2:38 (tr.1). The sounds are on a seismic scale and are superbly and naturally rendered in tr. 4 at 5:10. Those machine gun ratatats and huge rushing sounds emanating from the 500 strong orchestra and choirs are viscerally exciting. The orchestration is full of incident including an accordion (tr.4 7.16), siren effects and an over-the-top amplified narrator. In tr. 5 the quiet-pulsed sweetness of Romeo and Juliet is referenced in silvery white light.

Rob Barnett - MusicWeb International

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