London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado (Sergei Prokofiev)

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London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado (Sergei Prokofiev) · Alexander Nevsky is a work by Sergei Prokofiev from 1938, the music for Sergei Eisenstein's film about the Russian prince who defeated the German knights in the thirteenth century. The Battle on the Ice is the best-known part. Prokofiev also made a cantata of the music. This performance is by the London Symphony Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, who was that orchestra's principal conductor from 1979 to 1987.

Music and breakthrough

Claudio Abbado was born in Milan in 1933 and died in 2014. He studied piano, composition and conducting, became principal conductor of La Scala in Milan in 1969 and later led the Wiener Staatsoper and the Berliner Philharmoniker, among others. From 1975 to 1979 he was principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and then, from 1979 to 1987, principal conductor, and from 1984 also music director. He also founded youth orchestras, such as the European Union Youth Orchestra and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester.

Influence

Abbado was known for his Mahler and his attention to contemporary music.

Listening

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  Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78: The Battle on Ice · London Symphony Orchestra & Claudio Abbado (Sergei Prokofiev), 1938

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See also

• Soviet film music