Archive for Prokofiev
Limelight Magazine Says Utah’s Prokofiev Ticks Every Box
Australia’s Limelight Magazine gives a 4.5 Star review to the Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer’s Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky – Lieutenant Kijé Suite recording: “what a witty juxtaposition: Russia’s great medieval nationalist epic contrasted with a cheeky satire on stultifying Tsarist military bureaucracy. … All the participants acquit themselves brilliantly. In the Kijé, the orchestra conveys just the right mixture of piquancy and subversion. The soloists are a delight, especially the fat tubas and the droll sounding…
Audiostream Review for Prokofiev
Audiostream Magazine reviews our high-resolution downloads for the Utah Symphony’s Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky – Lieutenant Kijé Suite: “I was given access to download the 24-bit/192kHz WAV files of Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky – Lieutenant Kijé Suite for listening, and was immediately blown away at the lack of any compression artefacting on the tracks – this recording sounds like it has a mile of dynamic headroom built into it. Regardless of whether I played it on my…
Rafael’s Music Notes’s Reviews the Utah Symphony’s “Outstanding” Prokofiev Recording!
Rafael de Acha reviews the Utah Symphony and Thierry Fischer’s Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky – Lieutenant Kijé Suite recording: “Augmenting its chorus by the addition of two fine choral ensembles from the University of Utah, the orchestra, led by Thierry Fischer delivers a powerful performance of two Prokofiev compositions originally created for the screen. The score of Alexander Nevsky… gets an enthralling performance by Maestro Thierry and his forces, with the exceptional mezzo-soprano Alisa Kolosova contributing her…