SERGEI PROKOFIEV

- Ivan the Terrible, Op. 116

LIUBOV SOKOLOVA, mezzo-soprano
NIKOLAI PUTILIN, baritone
CHORUS OF THE KIROV OPERA
ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
conducted by VALERY GERGIEV

CD 456 645-2 DDD
PHILIPS

- This is Gergiev third recording with this orchestra (of which he is the Music Director).

- No one can match Gergiev in the Russian repertoire and here he gives a thrilling account of Prokofiev's impressive evocative oratorio.