Talk:Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)

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I added a few of the most blatantly missing recordings. A good resource for the discography is http://www.prokofiev.org Grover cleveland 16:54, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to me there are far too many "notable" recordings (about 35) listed for a Wikipedia article. For comparison, Beethoven's No. 5 has no list (though it does link to one outside WP). A list of maybe 5 could be appropriate, IMO. Zaslav (talk) 04:39, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, this is a ridiculously long list. The heading of the table is "Notable recordings", but not one of them include anything to indicate that it is, in fact notable; or noteworthy. In fact, none of them include any source at all.

I'm almost inclined to nuke the entire table; certainly further additions should have support for the claim that this is a particularly noteworthy recording.

I'm not saying that each recording must be "notable" as Wikipedia uses the term for an independent article, but there should at least be some source that shows it as being noteworthy, i.e., being worthy of being noted.

An IP just added yet another recording, apparently from their edit summary with no basis for nothing it other than its existence. I reverted; time to start at least holding the line. TJRC (talk) 03:35, 2 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Manic?

The last movement "degenerates into a manic frenzy"?? Heh! That's almost a quote of the infamous review of the last movement of Beethoven's 2nd symphony.
I'd suggest that it is to rhythmicity what the last movement of Mozart's 41st is to theme-juggling ... awesome.
As for great performances (and recordings) I'll second the 1988 Rostropovich. Twang (talk) 20:53, 13 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]