Serge Prokofieff: Chout - Suite Op 21a/Love for Three Oranges: Suite Op 33a/Waltz Suite (Chandos Classics Audio CD)

Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Järvi, conductor


The music from The Buffoon (Chout) is complemented here by two further colourful suites, that from the opera The Love for Three Oranges and the lesser-known, late Waltz Suite, which brings together music from the opera War and Peace, the ballet Cinderella and the film Lermontov.


“Prokofiev’s ballet score [The Buffoon] was written for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, but it’s doubtful that any ballet company ever has danced to such vivid, raucous playing as Järvi inspires in this concert suite. Chandos has blessed the Scottish National Orchestra with bright, airy, near demonstration quality sounds, and Järvi provides an enthusiastic reading that sparkles with an abundance of characterful wit and dances with good humour.”
High Performance Review