Composer of the Week - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, with excerpts from the majority of his opera and ballet scores, and a good selection of his film and theatre music
Composer of the Week - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Episode 1
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on the first opera to which the composer gave an opus number and early encounters with Diaghilev.
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Composer of the Week - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Episode 2
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on a pair of ballets and a pair of operas, including The Love for Three Oranges.
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Composer of the Week - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Episode 3
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on a theatrical rarity, his last work with Diaghilev, his first foray into film and his most famous ballet.
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Composer of the Week - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Episode 4
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on Soviet realism, frothy comedy and a collaboration with the film maker Sergei Eisenstein.
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Composer of the Week - Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) - Episode 5
Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen, focusing on his operas War on Peace and Story of a Real Man, a doomed attempt to appease the Soviet authorities.
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