Arnold Voketaitis - Prokofiev: Ivan The Terrible (Oratorio arr. Abram Stasevich) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Sergey Prokofiev's spectacular music for Ivan the Terrible is arguably one of his finest film scores. This classic recording of the oratorio arranged by Abram Stasevich conducted by Leonard Slatkin is filled with Prokofiev's irrepressible energy and eloquent melodic power. Ivan, the first 'Tsar of all the Russias' is portrayed in the film not as the bloodthirsty tyrant his nickname suggests, but as a sorrowful and lonely man, betrayed by his friends, deprived of love, and determined at all costs to preserve a unified Russia under constant attack from abroad and treasonous intrigues at home. Album Tracks 1. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Prologue - Overture and Chorus 2. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~March of the young Ivan 3. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Ocean-Sea 4. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~I will be Tsar! 5. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~God is Glorified! 6. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Long Live Our Tsar! 7. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Ocean-Sea 8. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Long Live Our Tsar! 9. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Simpleton 10. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~The White Swan 11. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Glorification 12. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~The White Swan 13. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~On the Bones of Foes 14. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~The Tartars 15. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Cannoneers 16. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~To Kazan 17. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Ivan Pleads with the Boyars 18. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Efrosiniya and Anastasia 19. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Song of the Beaver 20. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~Ivan at the Coffin of Anastasia 21. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~The Choir of the Oprichniki 22. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~The Oath of the Oprichniki 23. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~The Song of Feodor Basmanov 24. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116~The Dance of the Oprichniki 25. Ivan the Terrible, Op. 11