Sergei Prokofiev – Collector’s Edition – CD

Box Set

March 2023 marks the 70th anniversary of death of Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953). A Russian composer, pianist, and conductor, he made a part of his career in “the west”, moving to the United States and France after the 1917 Revolution. He went back to his land, which had become the Soviet Union in the late 30s. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century. His works include such widely heard pieces as the ballet Romeo and Juliet, Peter and the Wolf, his 3rd piano concerto, 2 violin concertos, the “Classical” Symphony, the opera “War and Peace”, several symphonies, the film music of Eisenstein’s Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, or a great cycle of 9 piano sonatas.

This 36-CD collector’s edition include almost all Prokofiev’s most important music. A collection of landmark recordings, it features numerous major performers of the present and the past, including Sergei Prokofiev himself.

Among the performers are: Pianists Nicholas Angelich, Martha Argerich, Michel Béroff, Samson François, Andrei Gavrilov, Nikolai Lugansky, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Sergei Prokofiev, Beatrice Rana, Sviatoslav Richter, György Sebök, Alexis Weissenberg Violinists David Oistrakh, Itzhak Perlman, Vadim Repin, Frank Peter Zimmermann Cellists Mstislav Rostropovich, Gautier Capuçon, Han-Na Chang, Steven Isserlis, Truls Mørk, János Starker Other instrumentalists Emmanuel Pahud · Michel Portal · Borodin Quartet, Quartetto Italiano · Berliner Solisten Conductors André Previn, Mstislav Rostropovich, Armin Jordan, Herbert von Karajan, Igor Markevitch, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Simon Rattle, Constantin Silvestri Singers / Narrators Galina Vishnevskaya, Catherine Dubosc, Stefania Toczyska, Gabriel Bacquier, Nicolai Gedda, Nicola Ghiuselev, Lajos Miller, Wiesław Ochman, Dimiter Petkov, Jean-Luc Viala / Miguel Bosé, Bart Peeters, Claude Piéplu, Kyu Sakamoto, Romy Schneider, Peter Ustinov.