This and the other two 2CD sets – 4800834 and 4800837 – represent all of Ansermet’s Prokofiev recordings for Decca (with the exception of a mono recording of the March & Scherzo from The Love for Three Oranges – the stereo version appears here).
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
CD1
Romeo and Juliet: Ballet Suite
The Prodigal Son: Symphonic Suite, Op. 46b
CD2
Cinderella: Ballet Suite
Scythian Suite, Op. 20 ‘Ala and Lolly’
The Love for Three Oranges: March & Scherzo
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ernest Ansermet
Recording producers: James Walker (Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, The Love for Three Oranges); John Mordler (Prodigal Son, Scythian Suite)
Recording engineers: Roy Wallace (Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, The Love for Three Oranges); James Lock (Prodigal Son, Scythian Suite)
Recording location: Victoria Hall, Geneva, Switzerland, February 1961 (The Love for Three Oranges), October 1961 (Cinderella), November 1961 (Romeo and Juliet), November 1966 (Prodigal Son, Scythian Suite)