It is inspired programming to couple Prokofiev’s Fourth Symphony with his ballet The Prodigal Son, since they have substantial links. The ballet was completed in 1929 on a commission from Diaghilev ...
Like its predecessor – the blazing ‘Fiery Angel’ Third Symphony – Prokofiev’s Fourth is a theatre score, a ballet, reconstituted in symphonic form. Indeed there is more narrative here than symphonic ...
This first-rate recording of Prokofiev’s most famous and least performed symphonies is a testament to Kirill Karabits's understanding of the composer, says Geoffrey Norris Pungent substance: Kirill ...
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This concluding volume in the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra’s cycle of Prokofiev’s symphonies goes back to the beginning. Prokofiev was an 11-year-old stripling when he first tried his hand at a ...