Dedicated Teamwork Prokofiev's The Fiery Angel - reviewed by ROBERT ANDERSON '... forceful and compelling ...'

This demon-haunted work was written in the neighbourhood of the glorious Bavarian monastery at Ettal, in the grounds of which I have wandered many a contemplative hour. Prokofiev was also within easy reach of Oberammergau, where he saw the Passion Play. Some of the music was ready to hand in a 'white quartet' he had started but abandoned, suitable for what remained of Renata's sanity and for the nuns assembling in all innocence within the convent.

In a Cologne not yet adorned with its magnificent cathedral and all too neighbourly railway, the commanding Ruprecht of Sergei Leiferkus has heard the demented ravings of Galina Gorchakova as Renata...

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

SAINT PETERSBURG

RUSSIA

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION

ARTHAUS MUSIK GMBH