Prokofiev - Symphony No. 4 Opus 47 (Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Valery Gergiev)

From the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, on 26 April 2012
Symphony Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Valery Gergiev - musical director
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Sergei Prokofiev - Symphony No.4 Opus 47 (38’)
0:55 I. Andante - Allegro eroico
13:17 II. Andante tranquillo
23:27 III. Moderato, quasi allegretto
29:24 IV. Allegro risoluto
The Easter Festival is an internationally renowned event among classical music lovers, traditionally opened in Moscow on Easter Sunday. Each year the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and its musical director Valery Gergiev travel across Russia - for the past 10 years now!
In 2012 we were given an exceptional musical gift: the Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Valery Gergiev performed the complete cycle of Sergei Prokofiev’s symphonies and piano concerti - a composer with whom Maestro Gergiev and the orchestra seem particularly in tune.

[@paullewis2413]

The 5th symphony by Prokofiev is generally his most performed and popular. However I`m inclined to think that the 6th is his masterpiece, followed by the 5th and the 4th. He is such a complex composer you really have to listen over and over before his genius finally hits you like a hammer - lol.

[@sharonsmithers2291]

This symphony gives me shivers up the spine and makes my hair stand up ,!

[@davidmackie8552]

Are you a goose

[@LuizBHMG]

Prokofiev sempre surpreendendo com algo fora de todo o padrão, algo realmente inovador. Criatividade e genialidade que vão além do explicável. Nem antes, nem depois, ninguém compôs como ele. Uma mistura de diversas sensações do medo à ironia, da melancolia ao amor.

[@ljiljanastanic9076]

Fantastic performans,Marinsky Orchestra is brilliant,and most beautiful Orchestra!

[@baronperche9942]

La quatrième symphonie de Prokofiev est aussi excitante que sous-estimée. Le 4è mouvement - Allegro risoluto - avec son mouvement rythmique irrésistible menant à une conclusion jubilante, est un de mes moments musicaux préférés de toute l’œuvre de Prokofiev. Interprétation de Gergiev et du Mariinsky absolument magistrale!

[@PericolososporeJerzy]

The last five minutes are my favourite part and among the most exciting moment of Prokofiev rythmic style...

[@ssprokofiev]

I meant to point out in my first comment that this is the Op. 47/112 version of the Fourth Symphony, not the Op. 47 as is stated in the heading.

[@martincaracoche4657]

Thanks for the clarification.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

Fantastic performance!!

[@sharonsmithers3711]

This is such a brilliant symphony which was used for the ballet the Prodigal Son by George Balanchine, which is superb.

[@SuperAsalvador]

Symphony No. 4, Op. 47/112 is actually two works by Sergei Prokofiev. The first, Op. 47, was written in 1929 and premiered in 1930. The second, Op. 112, is a large-scale revision from 1947. Both of the works share significant musical material with Prokofiev's ballet L’enfant Prodigue or The Prodigal Son. The two works are stylistically different, because their respective compositional contexts were different. They are formally different as well, and the instrumentation and scope of the revision is much larger. Because Prokofiev's Symphony No. 4 is in fact two different works, two different but related examinations are required For more information see WIKIPEDIA

[@franciscoespinozagamboa6490]

+Aurelio Salvador gracias por esta valiosa infomación

[@TheVaughan5]

Can't wait to hear these artists perform the 4th and 5th symphonies in London later this month. I've not previously been well acquainted with the 4th but I love it the more I hear it !

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

An inventive embrace of life as ballet. One my favourites amongst Prokofiev's works, but like the 2nd Symphony (another of my favourites) one of the least performed. But performed it is and superbly too 24 April 2012 at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.

[@paullewis2413]

For me the 6th has to be his finest work followed by the ballet score for Cinderella.

[@innocenzobarrera1505]

Performance fantastica. I temi della sinfonia germinano da fervida fantasia. (Riprese dell'esecuzione eccezionali!).

[@paulmartin199]

Marvellous!

[@ssprokofiev]

I'm glad Euroarts is posting this and other Easter Festival Prokofiev concerts. I suspect all these concerts will be issued on DVD and Blu-ray soon and I'll be in line to acquire copies of them.

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

Fuckin' fantastic!

[@rubenseam]

[14:08] A relaxed outline of the opening to the fifth symphony :)

[@unrealunreal7495]

7:98 .... musica come vento che alza foglie

[@davidmackie8552]

Wonderful developments of Beethoven. They would have been such good mates!

[@makofako122]

9:55 - most important

[@TAKIN-kn5rh]

This is not exactly Op.47 but Op.112, revised version of the symphony.

[@ozcansonmez4552]

The version of the video is not op 47, it is Second Soviet version op. 112.

[@hyunjeonglee2207]

5:34

[@adamtredanari2260]

WHY DO YOU MADE "PROKOVIEV-SYMPHONY NO. 5 OPUS 100 (MARIINSKY THEATRE ORCHESTRA, VALERY GERGIEV)" PRIVATE ?!?!?!!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? AND THE SYMPHONY NO. 1 PROKOVIEV TOO?!?!?!??!?! WE WANT THEM PUBLIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@HeatherJun]

36:35

[@evgenyryu8285]

흐음

[@not2tees]

They don't seem to end on the last beat all together, which is a shame.

[@ediccartman7252]

One who played at least one concert in his life, knows it happens sometimes......

[@colinwrubleski7627]

In light of the oft-nebulous nature of V. Gergiev's balletic conductorial choreography, it is somewhat of a miracle that more ensemble disasters of that sort do not happen under his direction... particularly when it happens that VG has skipped (a) rehearsal(s) of difficult pieces to conduct concerts, occasionally multiple times in a single day and in different cities (or even countries). And lest such a radical claim be denounced as mean-spirited gossip, this "Gergiev-ian" phenomenon is attested to by both colleagues who have played under him and by musicians who are themselves conductors and who have witnessed unrehearsed performances by VG...

[@colinwrubleski7627]

The Moscow Phil under D. Kitaenko, elsewhere here on YT, do manage to conclude the symphony (in this same later opus 112 revision) in a much more dramatically-coherent and well-punctuated final chord, so the initial observation that Gergiev et al do not finish together in this video is unfortunately factually correct.

[@ediccartman7252]

@@colinwrubleski7627 no argue , all this happens with our maestro , and still the listener only cares about result. And in this case , it's stunning . They really have it , no matter how much tired they are , and in how many places they were untogether. Didn't notice whether Kitaenko plays together the final chord , but in general his playing is definitely missing n-th degree and sometimes even sounds very amateurish - in particular 3rd movement that's played like mediocre Kabalevsky's piece for children. Can't really understand how profs can compare them two.

[@slubert]

To me it just sound like one of those changes that Gergiev does to the score. Are the percussion going short and dry and then the rest of the tutti doing a marcato?

[@genevievebauer323]

Grand chef d 'orchestre qui dirige avec un "cure dent!" Pourquoi pas en faisant les pointes ?

[@andrewdaws7275]

A revision too far. The original Op 47 symphony is tighter, sharper, better. And I write as a die-hard Prokofiev fan.

[@paullewis2413]

As another Prokofiev fan I prefer op.112 as heard here - brilliant!

[@a1b2c1d7]

Ужасно с 7.17

[@ediccartman7252]

Что не так? Они прекрасно чувствуют эту музыку.....

[@andrewroberts8139]

Gergiev needs a shave

[@Danlovar]

The beginning sounds like Prokofiev copied John Williams.

[@TheVaughan5]

Only problem there is that Williams wasn’t born when Prokofiev wrote this symphony. - lol

[@makofako122]

Amerika was invented in 1945

[@ronwalker4849]

THIS IS A TOTALLY MEANINGLESS, EMPTY, AND BANAL EXERCISE IN VENTURING IN NEW PLACES WHICH GO NOWHERE.. SOUNDS MORE LIKE MEANINGLESS SHATAKOVICH.

[@darrylschultz9395]

Ooh no, mediocre stuff exists! Who knew?! Instead of looking for something we like, lets write a complaint in all caps! Brilliant, that should improve it!