Description: ****Welcome to our listing, thanks very much for looking!Prokofiev - Leonard Slatkin – Ivan The Terrible on Hybrid 4.0 SACD from Mobile Fidelity First Time This 1979 Vox Classic is Available on a Single Disc: It Has Never Sounded Better "In the final analysis, when you consider conducting, orchestral execution, and sound, Slatkin gives the best performance of the preferred version of Ivan." – Arthur B. Lintgen, The Absolute Sound Prokofiev wrote some of the most dramatic music of his career for the Eisenstein film Ivan The Terrible. Most critics consider this a masterpiece and a companion composition to his other collaboration with Eisenstein, Alexander Nevsky. Here, Prokofiev uses everything the orchestra can deliver and then adds a magnificent chorus and even church bells. Although the score was arranged for oratorio form, conductor Leonard Slatkin, a master of this repertoire, dispensed with the narrative and concentrated on just the music. The result is an even more involving experience. This 1979 recording, originally made for the Vox label, has never been available a single disc before, and never in powerful 4.0 SACD surround sound. Experience this masterpiece as it's always begged to be heard: on 4.0 Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity. The American conductor Leonard Slatkin is a fixture of the U.S. symphonic scene, having conducted various major orchestras over his long career. He is noted for performance of American, Russian, and British music, and has been forthright among American conductors for championing the performance of American music. Slatkin was born in Los Angeles on September 1, 1944. He came from a Ukrainian Jewish family whose name was Zlotkin; his brother Frederick, a cellist, has used that name professionally. Slatkin's father, Felix, was a film score composer and conductor as well as a founder of the Hollywood String Quartet, and his mother, Eleanor, was the quartet's cellist. Slatkin grew up with an excellent musical education, and, somewhat unusually, was exclusively American trained. He attended Indiana University's music school, Los Angeles City College, and later the Juilliard School in New York, studying with St. Louis Symphony music director Walter Susskind and Jean Morel. His first conducting post was as assistant conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, and he advanced through several other posts before being named the orchestra's music director in 1979. Slatkin remained there for 17 years, issuing a large catalog of albums on Vox, EMI, and, for many years, the RCA label, including complete cycles of the symphonies of Elgar and Vaughan Williams; these earned numerous Grammy award nominations, and Slatkin has won six. In 1985, Slatkin led the St. Louis Symphony in the first recording of Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker issued on compact disc. Beginning in 1992, he also served as director of the Cleveland Orchestra's Blossom Music Festival, and in 1996 he moved from St. Louis to the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. There, he took steps to restore the orchestra's mission of presenting American music. Slatkin moved to London as conductor of the BBC Philharmonic in 2000 and also served a principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic, but he continued to work in the U.S. during this period in posts at the Hollywood Bowl, the Nashville Symphony, and the Pittsburgh Symphony, where he was principal guest conductor. The major post of the later part of Slatkin's career has been as music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, where he shepherded the group through labor strife and a municipal bankruptcy. He stepped down as music director in 2018 but has remained active as music director laureate, continuing a series of recordings with the orchestra on the Naxos label. In 2019, he led the orchestra in a Naxos recording of Copland's ballet music that included the rarely heard early work Grohg; this recording was nominated for a Grammy Award. From 2011 to 2017, Slatkin served a music director of the Orchestre National de Lyon in France. He is also a composer and the author of a book, Conducting Business. In 2003, Slatkin received the U.S. National Medal of the Arts. - James ManheimOut of Print! Last Chance! Features: • Hybrid SACD Collector's Edition MFSL, also known as MOFI, properly known as MOBILE FIDELITY SOUND LAB was the grandfather of all audiophile labels. Their LPs and CDs are highly sought after by audiophiles, because, quite simply, they were the best available at the time (most still are). Unfortunately the original MFSL company no longer exists. Thankfully, others have taken up the audiophile gauntlet, using the MFSL name to issue high quality, great sounding product...this is one such title. This listing is for a very rare audiophile HYBRID SACD title! It is OUT OF PRINT - a FACTORY SEALED Hybrid SACD, PRESSED and ISSUED by the MFSL {MOFI} company, of a highly collectible title from their music catalog, featuring - Prokofiev // Leonard SlatkinHybrid SACD Title - Prokofiev: Ivan The TerribleTrack Listing -1. Overture and Chorus - 3:26 2. March of the young Ivan \ The Broad Expanse of the sea - 3:55 3. I'll Be The Tsar! \ God is Glorified \ Long Live Our Tsar \ The Sea - 3:10 4. Simpleton \ The White Swan \ Glogification \ The White Swan - 7:01 5. On The Bones of Our Enemies \ The Tratars - 1:57 6. The Cannoneers \ To Karzan! - 12:07 7. Ivan Pleads With the Boyars - 7:23 8. Yefrosiniya and Anistasia - 16:38 9. The Song Of Fyodor Basmanov - 4:16 10. Polonaise - 1:32 11. Finale - 4:08Other Information / Credits / etc.. -• Recorded At – Vox Productions, Inc. • Manufactured By – MFSL, Inc. • Conductor – Leonard Slatkin • Orchestra – Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra Surround Series packaging by Rodney J. Dugan. This SACD mastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab features the original liner notes by Richard Freed and new technical information by the original engineer, Marc Aubort. Original sound recording © 1979 VOX Productions. Licensed from VOX Productions. All right reserved. This edition and packaging © 2003 Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab. Plays on all SACD and CD players • Barcode: 821797400367 The Hybrid SACD is from the rare MFSL series of audiophile SACDs (out of print). Hybrid SACD catalog # UDSACD 4003 Utradisc UHR - Gain 2 System / DSD / Multi-Channel / Surround Sound Original Recording - on VOX-TURNABOUT Records in 1979 - re-released by MFSL in 2003Limited EditionHybrid SACD made in the USAThe Hybrid SACD, JEWEL CASE and INSERTS are all assumed to be in MINT condition as this item is FACTORY SEALED - see our pictures with this listing as they are of the actual item being offered. This Hybrid SACD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system). Do not let this rarity slip by!
Price: 149.99 CAD
Location: Woodbridge, Ontario
End Time: 2024-11-29T19:50:15.000Z
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Sergei Prokofiev, Leonard Slatkin
CD Grading: Mint (M)
Record Label: MFSL / MOFI / Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Occasion: none
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard
Custom Bundle: No
MPN: MFSL SACD UDSACD-4003
Inlay Condition: Mint (M)
Format: CD (Hybrid SACD)
Release Year: 2003
Style: Oratorio
Features: Import, SACD, Sealed, Audiophile Collectible, Hybrid SACD, Pictures are of the ACTUAL ITEM, OUT OF PRINT, Ultradisc UHR GAIN 2, DSD - Direct Stream Digital, Multi-Channel
Performer Orchestra: St. Louis Symphony
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Release Title: Prokofiev – Ivan The Terrible - Leonard Slatkin
Color: Silver
Case Condition: Mint (M)
Catalog Number: UDSACD-4003
Modified Item: No
Edition: Collector's Edition, Deluxe Edition, Limited Edition
Type: Album
Era: 2000s
Special Attributes: SACD
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin
Genre: Classical
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
