Symphony No. 2 (Prokofiev)
Orchestra Conductor Record Company Year of Recording Format
Boston Symphony Orchestra Erich Leinsdorf Sony Classical Records ( originally RCA Red Seal ) 1968 CD
London Philharmonic Orchestra Walter Weller Decca 1978 CD
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Zdeněk Košler Supraphon 1980 CD
Scottish National Orchestra Neeme Järvi Chandos Records 1986 CD
Orchestre National de France Mstislav Rostropovich Erato 1988 CD
Berlin Philharmonic Seiji Ozawa Deutsche Grammophon 1990 CD
Scottish National Orchestra Neeme Järvi Chandos 1992 CD
London Symphony Orchestra Valery Gergiev Philips 2004 CD
State Symphony Capella of Russia Valeri Polyansky Chandos Records ? CD
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine Theodore Kuchar Naxos 2004 CD
National Orchestra of the O.R.T.F Jean Martinon Vox Records CD
USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra Gennadi Rozhdestvensky CD/LP
Recordings
Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 2 in D minor (Op. 40) in Paris in 1924-25, during what he called nine months of frenzied toil. He characterized this symphony as a work of iron and steel.