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5 giorni fa · British composer Gabriel Prokofiev, grandson of famed Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, was commissioned by a French orchestra in 2011 to create a new work, Beethoven9 Symphonic Remix, that interpreted the symphony through a fusion of classical and electronic music.
4 giorni fa · The story of Cinderella is found in cultures around the world and it existed well before the Disney franchise. We’ll hear Prokofiev’s brilliant ballet score in a classic recording that is superb in both performance and recorded sound.
5 giorni fa · The destinies of Shostakovich and Prokofiev were inextricably linked to the repressive Soviet regime under Stalin. Their compositions often had dramatic political ramifications. They both feared for their lives from criticism instigated by Stalin.
- RUSSELL STEINBERG
3 giorni fa · Name Year of Nationality Notable 21st-century works Remarks birth death Alma Deutscher: 2005: English: The Sweeper of Dreams (opera); Cinderella (opera); Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in G; Piano Concerto in E-flat major
2 giorni fa · The key works of early 20th-century modernism can often seem as challenging today as one imagines they were when new. Take Schoenberg’s First Chamber Symphony (1906), clinging to the remnants of tonality as its single-movement compression of symphonic design drives inexorably through extremes of aggressiveness and nostalgia, resisting ...
5 giorni fa · C’est l’opéra de la démesure. Prokofiev y travaille pendant la seconde guerre mondiale, la « grande guerre patriotique », selon la terminologie soviétique (et poutinienne). Il y célèbre le peuple russe, victorieux de l’envahisseur. Et la gloire du « petit père des peuples ».
3 giorni fa · His recital programmes span everything from transcriptions of medieval sacred polyphony and keyboard works by Byrd, Couperin, Rameau, and Froberger to the music of Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms and landmark twentieth-century compositions by Prokofiev, Ravel, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff, Schoenberg and Stravinsky.
