Alexander Nevsky: The Field Of Death

[mackjay2]

So, so beautiful

[lavanguardiadelsol]

This theme is si moving it made cry....

[PuppetMask]

I wish the Red army choir would've done a rendition of this man's work. Imagine.

[permyak59]

@PuppetMask

Abraham Lincoln - one of the cruelest and bloodiest leader of history of mankind.

Gulags in USA for Japaneese prisoners, holodomor(hunger) of New York (millons died) - Rossvelt - is absolute evil !

British Concentration camps in Africa for boeren, slavery (millions died), Cheenese opium wars, genocide in India (50 mln died) - Britain is extrimist state.

Anglo-Saxons is cruelest and bloodiest people in th world.

[PuppetMask]

Stalin won the war by forcing 3 generations of his people to charge German Artillery and Machine guns under penalty of death with the hope that they'd eventually run out of ammo. What could possibly be good about that?

[nfdfneq]

@PuppetMask Это смешно. Как можно принуждением держать фронт в 2 000 километров? Иметь многотысячные партизанские соединения в тылу врага? Лётчиков и моряков, которые, если оставались живы, возвращались на свои аэродромы и в свои порты? Не забывайте, что это были миллионы вооружённых людей, и каждый из них, в конце концов, решал сам в какую сторону стрелять. К сожалению, Ваши представления о войне типичны для Запада. Однако реальность сложнее, трагичнее и интереснее, чем вы себе представляете

[PuppetMask]

@nfdfneq I am perfectly aware of Stalin's fundamental paranoia and conduct toward his citizens. You know as well as I do that the "not a step backwards" and scorched earth policies were very real and so were Siberian gulags he built for anyone who was an exception. He won the war by sending the people he thought were his enemies against his real enemies, and then sending thousands of tanks and aircraft over their bodies to expand the USSR. What he did was effective, but it was still evil.

[permyak59]

@PuppetMask

Another wester propoganda.

Yoy know nothing about our history and about Stalin

You know that 90% of former USSR and Russia supports Stalin ?

How can it be if he was evil for our people ?

From 1400 British colinial empire killed more people than all european countries together

And from 1956 another "seae colonial empire" - USA and it's sattelites(like Canada) killed more people than all countries in th world together.

[DENDROID2]

meine Augen füllen sich mit Tränen... :(

[Pinsk4111]

Listen...

beautiful...

makes me remember those who fought for their land, their people , their families and could not live to see fulfilled their sacrifice

[nfdfneq]

МЁРТВОЕ ПОЛЕ (слова Луговской и Прокофьев) Я пойду по полю белому, Полечу по полю смертному, Поищу я славных соколов, Женихов моих, добрых молодцев. Кто лежит, мечами порубленный, Кто лежит, стрелою пораненный, Напоили они кровью алою Землю честную, Землю русскую. Кто погиб за Русь смертью доброю, Поцелую того в очи мёртвые, А тому молодцу, что остался жить, Буду верной женой, милой ладою. Не возьму в мужья красивого, - Красота земная кончается. А пойду я за храброго. Отзовитеся, ясны соколы!

[pylgrym]

Tolstoy says that ART is the transfer of emotion from one soul to another. This stirs my soul like so much of the Russian classical. Get ahold of Gliere's No. 3 Symphony - the Ilya Muromets: TOWERING!

[pepperquentin]

Great performance of one emootionally powerful piece. No wonder Shostakovich was so jealous of him! By the last movement of "Nevsky" tears would stream from my eyes... everytime... when I listened to this alone in my car.  And, I don't even speak Russian. But, I can translate the music to a more personal level... like Russia's internal struggles I have mine. And, just as no one can really know what pain and suffering she goes through, the same is true for us. Heroic victory must prevail.

[AbbilAndreea]

this piece is a masterword...anyone here knows where i can find the lyrics in russian and translated to english or spanish?? thanks!

[ladyhrist]

I have the lyrics if you want them (I'm in the Dallas Symphony Chorus and we're currently performing Nevsky as part of our fall set)?

[AbbilAndreea]

Off corse i want it :) thanks <3

[darkhyena]

May I have a copy? (in Russian?) I'd like to learn it by heart.

[moberhau]

I just saw Olga Borodina singing this tonight... absolutely stunning.

[jnsii]

Left wing? Don't be a fool, although i know you can't help it. Read a little history besides FOX NEWS and STAR MAGAZINE. Read instead anything you can about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, read Dostoyevsky. - writing about the human condition and the desires that unite us all. save the world your uneducated rant.

[marcohorowitz8]

any one else gets chills and goosebumps when listening to this? I do!

[ZviagintsevKrasenkov]

@marcohorowitz8 Yes me too.

[PIPZZZ02]

Only the Russians have grandly tragic music like this. The bleak, often terrible, history of the land and its peoples is all in there.

[darkhyena]

Still, I thought it was appropriate to play it on Rememberance Day for the British Expeditionary Force of WWI :(

[PIPZZZ02]

You are right - suffering is all the same.

Somehow Russian composers knew how to give it voice better than those of any other nation. Russian music has this profound sadness in it.

[jnsii]

@PIPZZZ02 Russian history has this profound sadness to it as well.

[jnsii]

This is my day.......every day.

[P1B1U1H1]

What always amazes is how Prokofiev predicted the immense suffering that the Nazi invasion would bring. Words can never express what Russia went through because of that war. The cruelty of the preceding decade was most likely in part a preparation for it. The Ukraine was aligned with the Nazi's in the 1920's. We can hate Stalin, but it was his industrial revolution that made the Russians prevail.

[Chainedorlo]

He made them live in poverty. Never look up to a "leader," the leader doesn't symbolize a people.

[P1B1U1H1]

Yes. That was part of the lesson of WWII as well. The State is no longer thought to be embodied in a single individual any more. The key, however, is never to forget that horrific war. Had France and England crushed Hitler after the Rheinland, no Russian lives would have been lost.

[Chainedorlo]

And it is the Western Europeans' duty to side with another evil? The people of both tyrannies are nice people with a good culture, but the tyrannies, if anything should have smashed each other. Communism was more dangerous in my opinion, because it was world wide.

[P1B1U1H1]

Fascists were conquering the world far more efficiently and destructively than the communists ever did. Stalin became fascist in large part after the war, but it was not the same thing because there was not the element of racial superiority. Thank God that fascism is dead. Had the Japanese not invaded China, communism would not have existed there. Communism was the second worst evil. It is now effectively dead as well. .

[Chainedorlo]

Which "Left Wing" authoritarian ideology is worse? The 20th century was a sham, it was a struggle for power. Both fascist and communist regimes had similar economies and militarist societies. By the way, what about Pol Pot, Ho Chin Minh, Mao(greatest mass killer), and even Lenin himself? There are probably more that I'm forgetting, but what I'm trying to say that the mainstream attempt to try to pick sides is fallacious. At some points regimes both had admired each other for different reasons.

[yunkah95]

Had USSR joined France and England in 1939 instead of making alliance with Hitler (the infamous Molotov-Ribentropp pact), WW2 would have been a joke.

[P1B1U1H1]

Absolutely. In fact, it was partly the United Kingdom's fault. The Soviets made overtures to Winston Churchill, who wanted to work with them, but the rest of the country was against it. A very, very bad decision. No matter how horrific Stalin was, and he was terrible, he was not as bad as the fascists. Germany would have killed tens of millions of Slavs AFTER having digested all the Jews. Japan wanted to kill every person in China. Thank God no one like that has been seen since then.

[billyguns2]

Oh, they are there; just hidden and working in darkness. Did you ever wonder why our air is unfit to breathe, our food mostly unfit to eat, and our water supply mostly ruined?

[gaspersb]

@P1B1U1H1 Forgive a non Russian for offering his opinion, but operating off the understanding I gleaned from Russian History classes, it was the Russian people and their indomitable spirit that made Russia prevail. Stalin and his revolution only provided the equipment.

[P1B1U1H1]

@gaspersb I'm a US citizen who thought like you once. Understand Nazis intended to kill 90% of the Slavs, making the rest slaves. Russians were like most people; the oft cruel hand of government created willingness to sacrifice life. Avoid undervaluing Russian military strategy: 1) Stalin made a truce with Japan to bring in the Siberians to save Moscow; 2) Zhukov expanded Blitzkrieg's surrounding of troops by encircling the 6th Army.

[gaspersb]

@P1B1U1H1

Oh, but those are human achievements. And anything Stalin did was politics, not strategy. And anything the Russian military did to win was again, an achievement of the Russian people and not Stalin's regime or actions.

[P1B1U1H1]

@gaspersb Study carefully the military history of WW2, more important than the "spirit" of the Russian people, the rise of the Nazis/communists, the Holocaust, or the Cold War. All else either eventuates in or stems from WW2 military history.

[TeaAndSpongeCake]

Wow! I love how the music holds so much feeling and expression...it's really captivating... ^___^

[ensembleartemis]

Un seul mot pour cette interprétation : SUBLIME ! Dieu sait pourtant que j'aime celle d'Obraztsova (qui en fait toujours un peu trop côté grosseur de voix, mais j'adore quand même) et celle de Borodina (majestueuse mais un peu moins intense du point de vue dramatique). Mais là, rien à dire ! BRAVO

[jnsii]

The Russian people have experience brutality and death on a scale unimaginable by most Westerners today. Yet in their music is a depth, a transcendence, that holds an incomprehensible but comforting salvation. Dostoyevsky understood this fact, but even he failed to fully articulate it.

[djorgon]

@jnsii I dont know if he failed. 

[illidan412]

This poem musical epico treats it Prokoviev inside the western but conservative canons, despite its other works but revolutionary.  Compare-for example with the processing that gives Sibelius to its musical poem epico Kullervot, that is different, because uses but a form contrapunteada at times atonal in its phrasing instrument-voice.

[JorPove]

Este poema musical epico lo trata Prokoviev dentro de los canones occidentales mas conservadores,pese a sus otras obras mas revolucionarias. Comparese-por ejemplo-con el tratamiento que da Sibelius a su poema musical epico Kullervot ,que es distinto ,porque usa mas una forma contrapunteada a veces atonal en su fraseo instrumento-voz.

[Gargamelle]

gran película, gran BSO, que GRANDE!

[sciprio]

Sublime.

[cheguepepe]

Flipante

[apostro]

Wow, wow