Digital Downloads: Reference Recordings – Prokofiev – Alexander Nevsky, Lieutenant Kijé Suite

Any Russian composer who got through the Great War and the revolution, then received permission to leave the Motherland and work abroad for more than a dozen years before returning home to acclaim… is a composer I’d loved to have had the opportunity to talk with while we washed down rye bread with cold vodka sitting on a blanket overlooking the Volga.