War & Peace

Part of Shell Classic International Series

Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6
Prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Vladimir Jurowski conductor
Russian National Orchestra

In England and in Russia, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sergei Prokofiev looked on as the world was ravaged by war – a war that arrived at the doorsteps of both composers. Vaughan Williams responded with his Sixth Symphony, a work that belies its composer’s pastoral tendencies with music that cries out in violence and desperation. Prokofiev went further, creating his most compelling orchestral canvas, a piece whose machine-like insistence and propulsive emotional momentum speaks louder even than the bombs and guns it was designed to confront. Vladimir Jurowski conducts the Russian National Orchestra in an historic celebration of British and Russian musical traditions.

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Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor - I. Allegro
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor - II. Moderato
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor - IV. Epilogue: Moderato
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100 - I. Andante
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100 - II. Allegro marcato

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