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| | Sergei Prokofiev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Prokofiev had time to write his postwar Sixth Symphony and a ninth piano sonata (for Sviatoslav Richter) before the Party suddenly changed its opinion about his music. | | | Still mostly untouched by this, Prokofiev turned to composing music for children (Three Songs for Children, Peter and the Wolf, and so on) as well as the gigantic Cantata for the Twentieth Anniversary of the October Revolution, which was, however, never performed. | | | Paris was better prepared for Prokofiev's musical style. |
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| | - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3 |
| | Prokofiev’s music has a strong element of the grotesque which he alternates with a lyrical quality. | | | Chamber music by Prokofiev includes two sonatas for violin and piano, the second originally for flute and piano and revised by the composer, with the help of the violinist David Oistrakh. | | | Prokofiev wrote seven symphonies; of these the Classical Symphony, a work written in 1916-17 with the work of Haydn in mind, is the best known; the Fifth Symphony of 1944 is a work on a much larger scale. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Meanwhile, Prokofiev had preserved his music for Romeo and Juliet in two orchestral suites and ten piano pieces in 1936 and 1937. | | | Prokofiev gave the music the title Urignol - derived from U.R.S.S. and parodying Stravinsky’s Rossignol - but Diaghilev disliked the name. | | | The year of the Russian Revolution, 1917, turned out to be a creative time for Prokofiev producing the Violin Concerto in D major and the Classical Symphony. |
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| | classical music - andante - four revealing new discs explore prokofiev works familiar and unfamiliar |
| | Prokofiev's final ballet score, The Legend of the Stone Flower, has never been popular anywhere: while there are 16 recorded performances currently available of Romeo and Juliet and eight of Cinderella, there is only one of Stone Flower — this new version by Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic on Chandos. | | | Prokofiev was just as interested in working for the theater as for the screen, and two works on this disc are suites the composer arranged from incidental music he composed for productions of Alexander Tairov's Egyptian Nights and Shakespeare's Hamlet. | | | The 2003 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Prokofiev's death has resulted in a slew of new CDs which make it possible for listeners to reevaluate the composer, in unfamiliar works as well as familiar ones. |
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| | Prokofiev Discography |
| | Prokofiev wanted the listener to feel the downbeat. | | | Prokofiev would probably have allowed performers far greater leeway with his music than are commonly taken. | | | All of Prokofiev's 78 RPM recordings have been reissued on Pearl GEMM CD 9470 (and also on an out-of-print EMI CD). |
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| | The Friendship of Miaskovsky and Prokofiev by David Wright MusicWeb(UK) |
| | Prokofiev was always pleased to play music by Miaskovsky. | | | Prokofiev dedicated his Third Symphony to Miaskovsky; it was first performed in Paris on 17 May 1933 under Pierre Monteux. | | | When Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto was dismissed by the critic Bernstein as musical mud Miaskovsky was prepared to defend Prokofiev in print. |
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| | Prokofiev, Prisoner of the State/Part 2 |
| | Returning to the USSR in March, Prokofiev got himself into hotter water by venturing that a sensible definition of Formalism might be "music which one does not understand at first hearing". | | | Capitalising on his winner, Prokofiev broke off work on his First Violin Sonata to turn Nevsky into a cantata. | | | Soon after came the fiasco of the composer's dutiful song-opera The Story Of A Real Man, ruined because the orchestra were too frightened about playing music by an Enemy of the People to be able to stop their fingers shaking. |
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| | Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev's equivalent to The Rite of Spring was the barbaric Scythian Suite (1914), which prompted the critic Kolonitsev to write: 'Each man does what he is able. | | | He was born in Riga in 1943 and became music director of the Oslo Philharmonic in the late 1970s, since when the orchestra has risen to being one of international status. | | | Little could he have guessed that one day Prokofiev would write a Romeo and Juliet that can be placed beside those of Berlioz and Tchaikovsky as one of the finest musical versions of Shakespeare's masterpiece. |
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| | Some Reflections on Prokofiev's Music by Bruce Turlish |
| | Prokofiev based this symphony upon musical material contained in his exquisite ballet "The Prodigal Son." Also, this symphony underwent a substantial revision at the composer's hands; it bears the dual opus number 47/112. | | | The criticism has sometimes been made that Prokofiev's music was lacking in emotional depth compared with the music of composers such as Shostakovich or Berg; I do not believe this criticism is valid from a purely musical standpoint. | | | Symphony No. 4: This is Prokofiev's most lyrical symphony and the least known after the second symphony. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Shostakovich told the government that he was embarrassed to explain to people from around the world that his music and the music of other Soviet composers was banned in their own country. | | | Prokofiev wrote seven symphonies and six piano concertos. | | | She instilled a love of music in her son; he always knew he wanted to be a composer. |
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| | Chad Twedt: Prokofiev |
| | Unlike a majority of composers during his time, Prokofiev was able to entertain, surprise, shock, and even leave his audiences in disgust with a wide variety of compositional styles, such as his "Classical" Symphony in contrast to "Suggestion Diabolique" for piano solo. | | | Even Debussy was hard for Prokofiev to stand--Prokofiev refers to Debussy's music as | | | When Prokofiev was fourteen, he wrote in a letter to his father after he watched an orchestra give a concert: |
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| | Kennedy Center: Biographical information for Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev?s role as music ambassador abroad was no longer needed. | | | Listen to PROKOFIEV's Classical Symphony, (Symphony No. 1) in D major, Op. | | | Frühbeck de Burgos leads three concert treasures: Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony, Prokofiev's Second Violin Concerto, and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. |
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| | Prokofiev Was Stalin's Final Victim |
| | There is no contention about Prokofiev as there is about Shostakovich (or even Tchaikovsky); no secret messages encrypted in the music, nothing but fertile melody and crackling originality. | | | I have on my desk the programme for a Sunday afternoon concert given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Adrian Boult "in honour of Stalin's birthday". | | | Peter and the Wolf is performed in kindergartens and Romeo and Juliet is not only danced by ballet companies but blared forth in football stadia as an aggressive combat anthem. |
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| | Prokofiev, Sergey -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Mischievous leaps in melody, unexpected shifts of key, and the mocking sound of reed instruments are typical of the music of Sergei Prokofiev, one of the Soviet Union's greatest composers. | | | His musical fairy tale for children, Peter and the Wolf, written in 1936, is frequently used to introduce young people to the sounds of the various orchestral instruments. | | | in full Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev 20th-century Russian (and Soviet) composer who wrote in a wide range of musical genres, including symphonies, concerti, film music, operas, ballets, and program pieces. |
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| | SERGEI PROKOFIEV by Karen Monson |
| | The composer delivered the score at the end of the summer of that year, only to be told that he had written music that was impossible to dance to, and to have his contract broken. | | | In his Autobiography, Prokofiev listed the four primary elements in his own musical style: the classical, the modern (including what he called "crudity"), the motoric or toccata, and the lyrical. | | | In the meantime, as was the custom of the era, Prokofiev had prepared versions of his new score for both full orchestra and solo piano. |
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| | deseretnews.com Pianist Chiu gives Prokofiev his due |
| | And during the 1990s, Chiu undertook the daunting project of recording Prokofiev's entire solo piano oeuvre for the Harmonia Mundi label, which was released two years ago as a 10-CD boxed set. | | | And at the same time, his consummate artistry easily manages to capture the lyricism inherent in much of Prokofiev's music. | | | Frederic Chiu is without question one of today's pre-eminent interpreters of the music of Sergei Prokofiev. |
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http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590038615,00.html
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| | Brain-Juice Biography of Sergey Prokofiev |
| | In this period, he composed the short opera without words, Peter and the Wolf, which eventually became a canonized teaching tool for first-time listeners of classical music (at the time, though, the piece was rarely performed). | | | Through his association with Stravinsky, Prokofiev learned to infuse folk melodies and rhythms of Eastern Europe into more traditional western idioms. | | | His compositions demonstrate an amazing range of style, stretching from Russian folk to ultramodern, from simple nursery rhymes to politically charged musical commentaries. |
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| | Pianist Jorge Bolet and his Remington recordings of Prokofiev and Chopin |
| | Jorge Bolet was the man of the complexity of Liszt, Chopin, Godowsky and Rachmaninoff -however diverse the styles in which these composers may have written for the mighty concert grand- and of Prokofiev, as he did materialize on Remington R-199-182 playing the Second Piano Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony under Thor Johnsson. | | | The recording of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. | | | The recording made in Cincinnati's Music Hall was supervised by Laszlo Halasz and the engineer was Robert Blake, and Irving Kolodin wrote the liner notes for the release. |
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| | Prokofiev Links |
| | Message board on the pianist's website devoted to the discussion of Prokofiev, his music, and Frederic's recordings of the complete solo piano music of Prokofiev. | | | Created by Mme Lina Prokofiev, the Prokofiev Archive was established by the Sergei Prokofiev Foundation to promote a deeper understanding of Prokofiev's music and life. | | | Contains an excellent essay and analysis of Prokofiev's piano roll and 78RPM recordings from the 1920s and 1930s. |
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| | WGUC 90.9 FM Essential Prokofiev |
| | The piano was Prokofiev's instrument, and the progressive collector will want all five of the piano concertos. | | | We are fortunate to have one recording of Prokofiev himself in his most popular Piano Concerto No. 3in a 1932 performance recorded in London's Abbey Road Studios with the London Symphony Orchestra, Piero Coppola conducting. | | | Robinson manages to present a balanced picture of Prokofiev, "warts and all," and he manages to bring acute insight to the music itself. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Melody, however, is not what Prokofiev's music is about. | | | Despite the turmoil, he wrote some of his greatest works that year - Violin Concerto in D and Classical Symphony. | | | He wrote: "The Resolution [against formalist music] has separated decayed tissue in the composers' creative production from the healthy part... |
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| | MIDI: PROKOFIEV - I Write The Music |
| | Discography of all recordings made by Prokofiev as a pianist, including analysis of his 78 RPM recordings. | | | All you need to know about Sergei Prokofiev - detailed biographies, recommended listening and reading, audio clips and web links. | | | His fiercely independant tonal, harmonic and rhythmic style was loved or despised. |
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http://iwritethemusic.com/midi-prokofiev.html
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Music: Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet |
| | Previn is musically intimate with Prokofiev as two old friends who've been to hell and back. | | | I never get tired of listening to this ballet--it's one of the most vivid works ever composed for the dance. | | | The music combines a very contemporary feel with classical qualities of beauty, depth and musical insight. |
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002SCO
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| | Prokofiev Test |
| | All of the follwoing are characteristic of Prokofiev's early piano music except: | | | All of the following are characteristics of Prokofiev's orchestral music except: | | | His fantasy operas are influenced by those of |
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| | Sergey Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev left Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and bedazzled western audiences with his hard-edged, virtuoso performances on the piano and exuberantly colourful scores such as the opera The Love for Three Oranges and his Third Piano Concerto. | | | Against this terrible background Prokofiev composed some of his greatest scores, the First Violin Sonata and his Symphonies Nos. | | | Sergey Prokofiev composed some of this century’s most widely loved music, yet due to his itinerant lifestyle and the secrecy that cloaked his final years in the USSR, he remains one of the least written about or understood musicians of this century. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Music: Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet [Import] |
| | Amazon.ca: Music: Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet [Import] | | | To hear a song sample, click on the song titles below that are followed by | | | Look for albums like Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet [Import] by subject: |
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| | Music, Prokofiev - Johnson's Russia List 1-23-03 |
| | Sviatoslav Prokofiev, the composer's elder son, has some answers. | | | Ashkenazy thinks Prokofiev "kind of welcomed what was happening in Russia and wanted to see the brighter side. | | | Fifty years after the death of composer Sergei Prokofiev, Geoffrey Norris talks to his son and Vladimir Ashkenazy |
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| | BBC NEWS Entertainment Prokofiev legacy holds strong |
| | In January 1948, another decree was issued accusing the "big four" of Soviet music - Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khachaturian and Myaskovsky - of having allowed "formalistic distortions and anti-democratic tendencies" to creep into their works. | | | All attempts to "play down" to the listener not only underestimate his cultural maturity - they also contain an element of insincerity | | | Even the politically unaware Prokofiev must have realised that worse was still to come. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Prokofiev |
| | However, the fiery Russian composer went on to exert an influence on modern music which is still being felt to this day. | | | Subjects > Entertainment > Music > Musical Genres > Classical > Composers > Prokofiev, Sergey | | | Born in Russia in 1891, Serge Prokofiev tirelessly devoted himself to the search for a new, individual music. |
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| | The Prokofiev Page |
| | Whose recordings of the complete set of Prokofiev symphonies do you like best? |
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| | Folklore in Prokofiev |
| | In 1934, he composed a five movement suite based on the story of Lt.Kijé. | | | This piece has been a popular concert work throughout the world ever since. | | | Prokofiev would first compose this piece in 1936, and it would be performed for the first time later that same year in Moscow. |
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| | AOL Music: Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3; Symphony No. 5 | | | The definitive web site devoted to the music of Sergei Prokofiev. | | | You can enable both via your browser's preference settings. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Meanwhile his own impulse to remain a Westerner was gradually eroded and in 1936 he settled in Moscow, where initially his concern was with the relatively modest genres of song, incidental music, patriotic cantata and children's entertainment (Peter and the Wolf, 1936). | | | Romeo and Juliet, the full-length ballet commissioned for the Bol'shoy, had its premiere at Brno in 1938, and only later became a staple of the Soviet repertory: its themes of aggression and romantic love provided, as also did the Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky, a receptacle for Prokofiev's divergent impulses. |
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| | CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Sergey Prokofiev |
| | Find the music of Sergey Prokofiev in the Archives. | | | He completed another opera, The Fiery Angel, in 1923, but it was not staged in his lifetime. | | | He found an outlet for his particular gifts in film mus.—brilliant scores for Lieutenant Kijé and Alexander Nevsky—and ballet (Romeo and Juliet and, later, Cinderella), In 1941 he began work on his most ambitious opera, War and Peace, and in 1944 wrote his richest and most heroic sym., the 5th. |
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| | Prokofiev Bibliography |
| | Includes extensive extracts from primary source documentation held at the Prokofiev Archive at Goldsmith’s College, and is by far the most musically literate biography published in English. | | | Werth, A. Musical Uproar in Moscow Turnstile Press (London 1949) | | | The most scholarly and by far the most musically literate monograph on Prokofiev’s life and works published – presently only available in French. |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Sergei Prokofiev's career and music reflect this in many ways. | | | Yet they also reflect a composer who was aware of his own musical strengths and used this to his advantage. | | | He retired to the country in 1946, and two years later his music fell victim to the Stalinist attack on Western "formalist" styles. |
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| | Press Information Impact of Prokofiev |
| | In addition, there will be two touch screens from which the public may choose film segments or audio selections offering songs, film scores, incidental theater music, orchestral and chamber music, and Prokofiev himself on piano. | | | Concert by Grant Johannesen of piano works by Sergei Prokofiev. | | | Visitors to the exhibit will experience an ambient soundtrack of patriotic music by Prokofiev and his colleagues (e.g., “Meadowlands,” “Ode to Stalin,” and “A Story of the Battle for the Russian Land”). |
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| | Sergei Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije Suite |
| | After completing the music for the film, Prokofiev arranged the popular suite in 1934. | | | But Prokofiev had written film music before meeting Eisenstein. | | | To Eisenstein, Prokofiev was capturing the inner rhythm of the film in his music. |
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| | BBC - Music / Profiles - Sergei Prokofiev |
| | Latest » Album Of The Week: Rachel Stevens; Bob Dylan on the BBC | | | He was a gifted melodist with a unique musical voice, who wrote in a wide range of genres including operas, ballets, film scores, cantatas, and orchestral, chamber and instrumental works. | | | Find out all about Radio 3's Prokofiev Evening |
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| | New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock X |
| | In all, they exhibit an original and unique style that grows more interesting with each successive listen. | | | Other parts have a more Canterbury influence, sounding a bit like Dave Stewart during his National Health days, but will then suddenly become more laid back, delicate and beautiful like Greenslade. | | | In addition to these progressive roots, bits and pieces of Russian classical influences sometimes swell up, making one think they're about to paraphrase Moussorgsky or Prokofiev, only to have it veer away and not be that at all. |
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| | The Many faces of Prokofiev. Part 4 |
| | Wittgenstein certainly was not the first person to misunderstand Prokofiev's intentions or his direct musical language. | | | Prokofiev did not deliver the serious musical statement expected by Wittgenstein, who was probably offended by Prokofiev's pianistic displays. | | | The slow second movement becomes a full-blown romantic lyrical statement, abounding in virtuosic nineteenth-century writing, reminiscent of Liszt's pianism and Chopin's embroidered melodic style. |
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| | Amazon.com: DVD: Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf / Royal Ballet School (1997) |
| | DVD > Genres > Musicals & Performing Arts > Classical > By Composer > Prokofiev, Sergei | | | Adults and children, whether students of ballet, music, or the arts in general, will thoroughly enjoy this wonderful ballet presentation of Peter and the Wolf. | | | Simple staging and dramatic lighting showcase Matthew Hart's effective choreography of the familiar story of Peter and his animal friends' capture of the wolf. |
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| | David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf |
| | Probably the most unlikely Bowie project thus far: a straightforward and charming performance of the narration to Prokofiev's immortal orchestral work for children recorded for his son Zowie and for Zowie's contemporaries everywhere. | | | And if one would listen carefully, he could hear the duck quaking inside the wolf, because the wolf, in his hurry, had swallowed her alive! | | | David Bowie Narrates Prokofiev's Peter And The Wolf - The Single |
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| | English Usage Potpourri |
| | Long, unfamiliar, based on a classic literary source few in the audience are likely to know as well as they should, the opera puts the advantages of captions in bold relief, but also their drawbacks. | | | On Thursday at the Metropolitan Opera, count on usage approaching 100 percent for the company premiere of Prokofiev's epic "War and Peace," adapted from Tolstoy. | | | Whatever their inherent shortcomings, most of us appreciate running translations of foreign dialogue (and even transcriptions of English). |
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| | Prokofiev |
| | Compositions without opus numbers are allotted a letter designation B, C, D, etc. to facilitate indexing | | | Clustering after Howard Robinson's book "Sergei Prokofiev, a biography": |
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