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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Composer of the Week: Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953): Episode 2

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

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BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Episode 2

Donald Macleod focuses Prokofiev ballets and operas, including The Love for Three Oranges.

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.

In Tuesday's programme, a pair of ballets and a pair of operas, both highly contrasted. The ballets are Trapeze, a concise chamber score written for a small travelling dance troupe, and Le pas d'acier - 'The Steel Step' - a 'futurist' ballet glorifying Soviet proletarian society (the Soviet authorities were reportedly not amused). The operas are the utterly absurd and perennially popular The Love for Three Oranges, and the esoteric, melodramatic and much less familiar The Fiery Angel, a remarkable work which Prokofiev himself never saw staged.

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Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev's music for stage and screen

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

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