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• CD01 TK 01 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 1 Introduction
• CD01 TK 02 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 2 Romeo
• CD01 TK 03 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 3 The street awakens
• CD01 TK 04 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 4 Morning dance
• CD01 TK 05 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 5 The quarrel
• CD01 TK 06 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 6 The fight
• CD01 TK 07 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 7 The Dukes command
• CD01 TK 08 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 8 Interlude
• CD01 TK 09 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 9 Preparations for the ball
• CD01 TK 10 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 10 Juliet the young girl
• CD01 TK 11 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 11 Arrival of the guests
• CD01 TK 12 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 12 Masks
• CD01 TK 13 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 13 Dance of the Knights
• CD01 TK 14 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 14 Juliets variation
• CD01 TK 15 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 15 Mercutio
• CD01 TK 16 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 16 Madrigal
• CD01 TK 17 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 17 Tybalt recognises Romeo
• CD01 TK 18 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 18 Gavotte
• CD01 TK 19 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 19 Balcony scene
• CD01 TK 20 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 20 Romeos variation
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• CD01 TK 22 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 22 Folk dance
• CD01 TK 23 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 23 Romeo and Mercutio
• CD01 TK 24 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 24 Dance of the five couples
• CD01 TK 25 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 25 Dance with mandolins
• CD01 TK 26 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 26 The Nurse
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• CD01 TK 28 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 28 Romeo at Friar Laurences
• CD01 TK 29 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 29 Juliet at Friar Laurences
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• CD01 TK 31 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 31 Further public festivities
• CD01 TK 32 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 32 Meeting of Tybalt and Mercutio
• CD01 TK 33 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 33 Tybalt and Mercutio fight
• CD01 TK 34 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 34 Death of Mercutio
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• CD01 TK 36 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 36 Finale
• CD01 TK 37 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 37 Introduction
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• CD01 TK 39 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 39 The last farewell
• CD01 TK 40 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 40 The Nurse
• CD01 TK 41 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 41 Juliet refuses to marry Paris
• CD01 TK 42 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 42 Juliet alone
• CD01 TK 43 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 43 Interlude
• CD01 TK 44 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 44 At Friar Laurences cell
• CD01 TK 45 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 45 Intelude
• CD01 TK 46 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 46 Juliets bedroom
• CD01 TK 47 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 47 Juliet alone
• CD01 TK 48 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 48 Aubade
• CD01 TK 49 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 49 Dance of the young girls with lilies
• CD01 TK 50 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 50 At Juliets bedside
• CD01 TK 51 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 51 Juliets funeral
• CD01 TK 52 Sergey Prokofiev Romeo & Juliet complete ballet Op 64 No 52 Death of Juliet

LSO Live celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2010 and the label's first release of the year features Prokofiev's spectacular score for the ballet Romeo & Juliet conducted by Valery Gergiev. Gergiev is a tireless champion of Prokofiev's music. His complete cycle of the composer's symphonies with the LSO won a 2004 Gramophone Award. Shortly afterward, Gergiev was named Principal Conductor of the orchestra and spent much of 2008 and 2009 touring Prokofiev's symphonies with the LSO in Europe, Japan and the USA. Gergiev's forthcoming LSO Live releases include a Rachmaninov symphony cycle as well as music by Ravel, Stravinsky, Debussy and Strauss.

Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet has a strong claim to being the greatest ballet. Not only does it contain much of the composer’s finest and most instantly appealing music, it is also considered one of the most exceptional musical realisations of Shakespeare.

Reviews:

Disc of the Year

Best Orchestral Recording

'For the LSO to win our prestigious Disc of the Year award is testament to the orchestra's continuing brilliance under Valery Gergiev. Hearing this score 'live' gives this music extra frisson, almost as if we were joining the audience for the performance' BBC Music Magazine Awards 2011

Editor's Choice 'Gergiev is in his element ... A winner' Gramophone (UK)

Editor's Choice 'this marvellously dance-infused performance of the complete score by Valery Gergiev and a devilishly on-form LSO is an essential item. Rarely has Prokofiev's score sounded so orchestrally powerful. The LSO brings the passion back to Prokofiev's star-crossed lovers' Classic FM Magazine (UK)

CD of the Week ‘This is music in which Gergiev has few peers today ... he brings an epic, symphonic and dramatic integrity to its vast, multifaceted canvas ... his London forces respond to Gergiev’s often hair-raising volatility with some of their most dynamic playing – the death of Tybalt has rarely sounded more coruscating in its raw depiction of Lady Capulet’s grief. Juliet’s early music positively scampers with youthful delicacy and grace, and the love music shimmers with a rapt beauty ... the entire performance carries an inevitable tragic momentum’ Sunday Times (UK)

‘one could be forgiven for thinking that the LSO is Russian, such is the passion and energy with which it attacks Prokofiev’s score. The brass playing is superb ... the woodwind team is on fine form ... the LSO powerhouse strings are quite magnificent throughout. Gergiev’s new version is hard to beat’ International Record Review (UK)

***** 'Gergiev has courageously taken the complete score out of the ballet theater and into the concert hall, to make the music-drama stand on its own orchestrally as with Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Nutcracker, and Sleeping Beauty. The live recording is sensational in its realism' Audiophile Audition (US)

Performance ***** Sound ***** ‘Der akustisch vorzügliche Mehrkanal-Mitschnitt dieser beiden Konzerte unterstreicht eindringlich die historische Dringlichkeit dieser Aktion. Denn trotz 140 Minuten Dauer entpuppt sich das abendfüllende Opus als Feuerwerk kurzweiligster musikalischer Attraktionen, die einen in 52 Szenen Prokofjews unerschöpflichen musikalischen Einfallsreichtum um die Ohren schlagen' Fono Forum (Germany)

Choice of the Month – Orchestral BBC Music Magazine (UK)

Clef de ResMusica ResMusica (France)

Best Modern Recording BBC Radio 3 Building a Library (UK)

***** The Australian (Australia)

***** Mail on Sunday (UK)

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James Mallinson producer; Neil Hutchinson and Jonathan Stokes for Classic Sound Ltd balance engineers; ; Recorded November 2008, Barbican, London; DSD (Direct Stream Digital) recording