wimpel69
12-07-2016, 12:33 PM
This is a new, EAC/Accurate rip version of an album I posted before (without scans).
Please request the FLAC link (including the complete
artwork, LOG & CUE files (EAC accurate rip)) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
The full orchestral score is also included as a PDF.
This is my own rip. Please do not share my material any further, also please
add to my reputation!
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) completed the scores to two of the projected three Ivan the Terrible films directed by
cinematic pioneer Sergei Eisenstein and set in the sixteenth century. Eisenstein (1898 - 1948) never finished the third chapter,
nor did Prokofiev fashion concert versions from his scores as he had done with two of his most popular efforts for film,
Lieutenant Kije and Alexander Nevsky. Why he did not is puzzling, but he may simply have feared that extracting a
suite might be politically unwise; Eisenstein, owing largely to his work on these films, had come under attack for "formalism"
by Stalin's lackeys in the arts, and Stalin himself suspected that Eisenstein was drawing parallels between Ivan's autocratic
ways and his own.
Prokofiev's original scores call for mezzo-soprano and bass soloists, chorus, and orchestra. It is impossible to divide their
music conveniently into movements or sections. One method is to count each scene in the films with music as a separate
number, even if the music in that scene continues without break from the previous one. By that reckoning, there are over
50 numbers, including sections that Prokofiev inserted from the Russian Orthodox liturgy.
After Stalin's death, the films were rehabilitated and Prokofiev's scores unearthed. Abram Stasevich fashioned a
popular cantata-like concert version consisting of 25 numbers, and added narration. Around 1990 Christopher Palmer and
Michael Lankester each made elaborate and well-conceived concert suites based largely on Stasevich's pioneering effort.
The Palmer/Ivan consists of 19 sections and omits narration; the Lankester/Ivan has 29 separate numbers, but adds
even more narration than is contained in the already verbally padded Stasevich version.
The music in the first two cues that Prokofiev composed introduce Ivan's theme (a muscular, heroic melody, typically
given by the brass) and a rhythmically driven passage that features a variation on the Ivan theme played by the oboe.
These two sections provide the music in the Overture sections of the various other versions of Ivan. The fourth and
fifth cues in Prokofiev's Ivan contain the music for "Ocean-Sea" (No. 3) in the Stasevich and Lankester versions and for
"Russian Sea" (No. 2) in the Palmer.
Analysis of this sort could continue at length, but one can summarize the styles and artistic worth of the Ivan versions
with the observation that the original Prokofiev scores are rich in melody (containing, among other famous creations,
a theme the composer also used in his opera War and Peace, most notably in the big closing chorus) and colorful in its
vocal writing and orchestration. But, most important, Prokofiev captured the drama in the film with music of such vivid
character that the notes seem almost to convey the very action and dialogue of the characters.
Of the concert versions, the Stasevich -- minus its totally superfluous narration -- is the most effective, reducing the
score to a more workable size, distilling its best moments, adding necessary bridge passages, and even adding a few
sections, such as a well-known humming chorus using that War and Peace theme, that were not in the film scores.
Music Composed by
Sergei Prokofiev
Arranged by
Abram Stasevich
Played by the
HR-Sinfonieorchester
With
Tamara Sinyavskaya (contralto)
Wolfgang Brendel (baritone)
Sergei Yursky (narrator)
And the
Danish National Radio Choir
Children's Choir of Frankfurt
Conducted by
Dmitri Kita(j)enko
"Dmitri Kitaenko is among the leading Russian conductors of his generation. Though generally overshadowed by his
contemporary Yuri Temirkanov, as well as older-generation figures like Kiril Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky,
Kitaenko has held several prestigious conducting posts and has made a spate of critically praised recordings for a variety
of major labels in both operatic and symphonic repertory largely dominated by Russian composers.
Kitaenko was born in Leningrad, on August 18, 1940. He studied conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory, then later
at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Ginzburg. With the thaw in the Cold War allowing greater artistic freedom in the
Soviet Union, he moved onto the Vienna Conservatory where he studied under famed conductor Hans Swarowsky.
The most crucial event in Kitaenko's early career was his entry in the first Herbert von Karajan Competition in 1969,
where he won first prize. The following year he was appointed artistic director at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater
in Moscow, a post that allowed him to gain much experience in operatic repertory. He also began conducting the leading
Russian orchestras and soon became a regular conductor at the Bolshoi. He traveled abroad, too, leading important
operatic productions in Brussels, Vienna, and Munich.
In 1976 he was appointed principal conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, succeeding Kiril Kondrashin. During
his 14-year stint in Moscow, Kitaenko made many recordings for the Soviet label Melodiya, his releases including the
complete symphonies of Prokofiev, and various works by Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, and, surprisingly, Gershwin. In 1990
he left the Soviet Union for Western Europe, taking two conducting posts concurrently, the Bergen (Norway) Philharmonic
Orchestra, where he served until 1998, and the Hessischen Rundfunk Orchestra, Frankfurt, a post he held until 1996.
Among Kitaenko's first recordings to be released in the west was a 1991 Prokofiev disc on the Chandos label containing
Alexander Nevsky and the Scythian Suite, made with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir. After 1998,
Kitaenko regularly began appearing as a guest conductor in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. In the new century he has made
a number of successful recordings, including the 2001 cycle of the five Prokofiev piano concertos, with his former Frankfurt
orchestra and pianist Vladimir Krainev on the Elektra label. In 2005, Kitaenko finished recording the 15 symphonies of
Shostakovich, and the set was issued on the Capriccio label to a quite favorable critical response. Further recordings
included efforts on Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky."
Source: RCA/BMG "100 Years of Film Music" CD, 1996 (My rip!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 (image + cue + log, incl. complete artwork & booklet)
File Size: 472 MB /(incl. artwork, booklet, log & cue)
Please request the FLAC link (including the complete
artwork, LOG & CUE files (EAC accurate rip)) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
The full orchestral score is also included as a PDF.
This is my own rip. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
All albums in the RCA "100 Years of Film Music" Series
Film Noir: Concert Suites of Music by Adolph Deutsch, Franz Waxman, Frederick Hollander & Max Steiner - Thread 211261
Im Kampf mit dem Berge (In Sturm und Eis): A Silent Film Score by Paul Hindemith - Thread 210588
The Lubitsch Touch: Music for Silent Films by Karl-Ernst Sasse - Thread 211542
High Noon: The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin - Thread 211329
Charles Chaplin: The Film Music, conducted by Carl Davis - Thread 212562
Metropolis: The Gottfried Huppertz Score* - Thread 211429
Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible (arr. Stasevich) - Thread 212697
Paul Dessau: Music for the Alice Comedies & The Magic Clock - Thread 212649
Winfried Zillig: Panamericana (Traumstrasse der Welt), 2 CDs - Thread 212135
Franz Waxman: Sayonara, Hemingway's Adventures, A Place in the Sun, Taras Bulba - Thread 211974
Max Steiner: The Adventures of Mark Twain - E.W. Korngold: The Prince and the Pauper - Thread 211090
Charles Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony, etc - Thread 212997
and contributed by user tri2061990:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu (The Silent Film Score) - Thread 164859
alternatively, my own:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu - The Complete Score (BD to FLAC rip) - Thread 211967
* never released: This is based on my rip of the then-complete film on DVD.
Please request the FLAC link (including the complete
artwork, LOG & CUE files (EAC accurate rip)) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
The full orchestral score is also included as a PDF.
This is my own rip. Please do not share my material any further, also please
add to my reputation!
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) completed the scores to two of the projected three Ivan the Terrible films directed by
cinematic pioneer Sergei Eisenstein and set in the sixteenth century. Eisenstein (1898 - 1948) never finished the third chapter,
nor did Prokofiev fashion concert versions from his scores as he had done with two of his most popular efforts for film,
Lieutenant Kije and Alexander Nevsky. Why he did not is puzzling, but he may simply have feared that extracting a
suite might be politically unwise; Eisenstein, owing largely to his work on these films, had come under attack for "formalism"
by Stalin's lackeys in the arts, and Stalin himself suspected that Eisenstein was drawing parallels between Ivan's autocratic
ways and his own.
Prokofiev's original scores call for mezzo-soprano and bass soloists, chorus, and orchestra. It is impossible to divide their
music conveniently into movements or sections. One method is to count each scene in the films with music as a separate
number, even if the music in that scene continues without break from the previous one. By that reckoning, there are over
50 numbers, including sections that Prokofiev inserted from the Russian Orthodox liturgy.
After Stalin's death, the films were rehabilitated and Prokofiev's scores unearthed. Abram Stasevich fashioned a
popular cantata-like concert version consisting of 25 numbers, and added narration. Around 1990 Christopher Palmer and
Michael Lankester each made elaborate and well-conceived concert suites based largely on Stasevich's pioneering effort.
The Palmer/Ivan consists of 19 sections and omits narration; the Lankester/Ivan has 29 separate numbers, but adds
even more narration than is contained in the already verbally padded Stasevich version.
The music in the first two cues that Prokofiev composed introduce Ivan's theme (a muscular, heroic melody, typically
given by the brass) and a rhythmically driven passage that features a variation on the Ivan theme played by the oboe.
These two sections provide the music in the Overture sections of the various other versions of Ivan. The fourth and
fifth cues in Prokofiev's Ivan contain the music for "Ocean-Sea" (No. 3) in the Stasevich and Lankester versions and for
"Russian Sea" (No. 2) in the Palmer.
Analysis of this sort could continue at length, but one can summarize the styles and artistic worth of the Ivan versions
with the observation that the original Prokofiev scores are rich in melody (containing, among other famous creations,
a theme the composer also used in his opera War and Peace, most notably in the big closing chorus) and colorful in its
vocal writing and orchestration. But, most important, Prokofiev captured the drama in the film with music of such vivid
character that the notes seem almost to convey the very action and dialogue of the characters.
Of the concert versions, the Stasevich -- minus its totally superfluous narration -- is the most effective, reducing the
score to a more workable size, distilling its best moments, adding necessary bridge passages, and even adding a few
sections, such as a well-known humming chorus using that War and Peace theme, that were not in the film scores.
Music Composed by
Sergei Prokofiev
Arranged by
Abram Stasevich
Played by the
HR-Sinfonieorchester
With
Tamara Sinyavskaya (contralto)
Wolfgang Brendel (baritone)
Sergei Yursky (narrator)
And the
Danish National Radio Choir
Children's Choir of Frankfurt
Conducted by
Dmitri Kita(j)enko
"Dmitri Kitaenko is among the leading Russian conductors of his generation. Though generally overshadowed by his
contemporary Yuri Temirkanov, as well as older-generation figures like Kiril Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky,
Kitaenko has held several prestigious conducting posts and has made a spate of critically praised recordings for a variety
of major labels in both operatic and symphonic repertory largely dominated by Russian composers.
Kitaenko was born in Leningrad, on August 18, 1940. He studied conducting at the Leningrad Conservatory, then later
at the Moscow Conservatory under Lev Ginzburg. With the thaw in the Cold War allowing greater artistic freedom in the
Soviet Union, he moved onto the Vienna Conservatory where he studied under famed conductor Hans Swarowsky.
The most crucial event in Kitaenko's early career was his entry in the first Herbert von Karajan Competition in 1969,
where he won first prize. The following year he was appointed artistic director at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater
in Moscow, a post that allowed him to gain much experience in operatic repertory. He also began conducting the leading
Russian orchestras and soon became a regular conductor at the Bolshoi. He traveled abroad, too, leading important
operatic productions in Brussels, Vienna, and Munich.
In 1976 he was appointed principal conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, succeeding Kiril Kondrashin. During
his 14-year stint in Moscow, Kitaenko made many recordings for the Soviet label Melodiya, his releases including the
complete symphonies of Prokofiev, and various works by Shostakovich, Rachmaninov, and, surprisingly, Gershwin. In 1990
he left the Soviet Union for Western Europe, taking two conducting posts concurrently, the Bergen (Norway) Philharmonic
Orchestra, where he served until 1998, and the Hessischen Rundfunk Orchestra, Frankfurt, a post he held until 1996.
Among Kitaenko's first recordings to be released in the west was a 1991 Prokofiev disc on the Chandos label containing
Alexander Nevsky and the Scythian Suite, made with the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir. After 1998,
Kitaenko regularly began appearing as a guest conductor in Europe, Japan, and the U.S. In the new century he has made
a number of successful recordings, including the 2001 cycle of the five Prokofiev piano concertos, with his former Frankfurt
orchestra and pianist Vladimir Krainev on the Elektra label. In 2005, Kitaenko finished recording the 15 symphonies of
Shostakovich, and the set was issued on the Capriccio label to a quite favorable critical response. Further recordings
included efforts on Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky."
Source: RCA/BMG "100 Years of Film Music" CD, 1996 (My rip!)
Quality: FLAC 16-44 (image + cue + log, incl. complete artwork & booklet)
File Size: 472 MB /(incl. artwork, booklet, log & cue)
Please request the FLAC link (including the complete
artwork, LOG & CUE files (EAC accurate rip)) in this thread. PMs will be ignored!
The full orchestral score is also included as a PDF.
This is my own rip. Please do not share my material further, also please
add to my reputation!
All albums in the RCA "100 Years of Film Music" Series
Film Noir: Concert Suites of Music by Adolph Deutsch, Franz Waxman, Frederick Hollander & Max Steiner - Thread 211261
Im Kampf mit dem Berge (In Sturm und Eis): A Silent Film Score by Paul Hindemith - Thread 210588
The Lubitsch Touch: Music for Silent Films by Karl-Ernst Sasse - Thread 211542
High Noon: The Film Music of Dimitri Tiomkin - Thread 211329
Charles Chaplin: The Film Music, conducted by Carl Davis - Thread 212562
Metropolis: The Gottfried Huppertz Score* - Thread 211429
Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible (arr. Stasevich) - Thread 212697
Paul Dessau: Music for the Alice Comedies & The Magic Clock - Thread 212649
Winfried Zillig: Panamericana (Traumstrasse der Welt), 2 CDs - Thread 212135
Franz Waxman: Sayonara, Hemingway's Adventures, A Place in the Sun, Taras Bulba - Thread 211974
Max Steiner: The Adventures of Mark Twain - E.W. Korngold: The Prince and the Pauper - Thread 211090
Charles Koechlin: The Seven Stars Symphony, etc - Thread 212997
and contributed by user tri2061990:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu (The Silent Film Score) - Thread 164859
alternatively, my own:
Hans Erdmann: Nosferatu - The Complete Score (BD to FLAC rip) - Thread 211967
* never released: This is based on my rip of the then-complete film on DVD.