Composer of the Week

In Wednesday's programme, a theatrical rarity, Egyptian Nights; Prokofiev's last and hugely successful collaboration with Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes, The Prodigal Son; its commercially unsuccessful follow-up, On the Dnieper; his first, speculative venture onto celluloid, the now fabulously well-known and aforementioned Lt Kijé; and one of his most enduring successes in any genre, the ballet Romeo and Juliet.