Digital recording, live in Tokyo, July 1979
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You keep on digging out great and historically significant music here! I presume this is the cantata version. I saw the full score performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and another choir with the film in 2013. It is truly epic and a very memorable evening.
https://theartsdesk.com/classical-music/alexander-nevsky-bbc-symphony-orchestra-and-chorus-brabbins-barbican-hall
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Delightful packaging.
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An excellent CD. It is intriguing the three sonatas were all composed in the same year, inspired by the same event, and yet so different.
I assume you know they also released In the Shadow of World War I.
Yes, I also have the In the ‘Shadow of World War I’ disc.
Both musically and sonically I much prefer the WW2 disc.
I understand .
But for me the music written during and just after WWI has greater power and sadness, the disoriented Lost Generation. Bloch’s Schelomo is also of this.
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Listening to it now. Thanks for the suggestion.
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