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Sinfonia and Chorus in London, conducted by Alexander Ivashkin. Booklet for CD, Prokofiev: On the Dnieper / Songs of our days, Chandos Records, CHAN10044....

Cendrillon) Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and...

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27 April [O.S. 15 April] 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet...

released in March 1934. It was Prokofiev's first attempt at film music, and his first commission. In the early days of sound cinema, among the various...

acts by Sergei Prokofiev to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on the 1866 story of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Prokofiev had decided on...

Sergei Prokofiev for Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The subject of the film is the 13th century incursion of the knights of the Livonian...

3 January 1989) was a Spanish singer and the first wife of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. They married in 1923. Despite misgivings about her husband's...

This is a list of musical compositions by the 20th-century Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The Giant (1900) On Desert Islands (1900; unfinished) A...

Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25, also known as the Classical, was Sergei Prokofiev's first numbered symphony. He began to compose it in 1916 and completed...

Sergei Prokofiev began his Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19, as a concertino in 1915 but soon abandoned it to work on his opera The Gambler. He...

Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100, in the Soviet Union in one month[citation needed] in the summer of 1944. From 1925...

written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1912 and debuted by the composer on December 10, 1916, in Petrograd. It is a further development of the toccata form, which...

of our ridicule; and then we grow ashamed, the mocking laughter rings in our ears, but it is we who are its object now." Sergei Prokofiev, Program of...

Джульетта, romanized: Romeo i Dzhulyetta), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. First composed in...

Symphony No. 5 Elgar – Polonia Haydn – String Quartets, Op. 76 Prokofiev – Songs of Our Days Schumann – Four Marches (Vier Märsche) for piano Stanford –...

Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7 in B♭ major, Op. 83 (occasionally called the "Stalingrad")[citation needed] is a sonata for solo piano, the second of the...

Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, was completed in 1952, the year before his death. It is his last symphony. Most of the symphony...

26, is a piano concerto by Sergei Prokofiev. It was completed in 1921 using sketches first started in 1913. Prokofiev began his work on the concerto as...

approval, Prokofiev was only paid 25% of the commission promised.[citation needed] Upon the première of "Songs of Our Days" in 1938, Prokofiev hoped that...

"symphonic tale for children", is a musical composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936. The narrator tells a children's story, which the orchestra illustrates...