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| | INKPOT#84 CLASSICAL MUSIC: Celibidache Conducts Russian Music - Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Mussorgsky. SWR ... |
 | | This Stuttgart recording, from 1978, is one of the very finest. |
 | | The Fifth Symphony is a wartime work, composed in 1944, and, according to Prokofiev, was to "sing of man, free and happy, of his strength, generosity and the purity of his soul". |
 | | The agony of Romeo's horror as he stands at Juliet's tomb, at once conveyed by a sparse string melody of unusual despondency, makes way for the shattering climax (and for once it really is that, drenched in tragedy) that announces the most passionate music Prokofiev ever wrote. |
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