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Composer of the Week

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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 4

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Episode 4

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), Episode 4

Donald Macleod explores Prokofiev works, encompassing Soviet realism and frothy comedy.

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.

In Thursday's programme, Prokofiev's incidental music for a staged version of Eugene Onegin, in which the composer proves that less can be more; Alexander Nevsky, his first Eisenstein collaboration; his 'Soviet' opera Semyon Kotko, a magnificent score despite the composer's preoccupation with staying 'on message' with the authorities; at the other end of the operatic scale, the light-hearted Betrothal in a Monastery, based on Sheridan's extravagant 18th-century comedy of manners The Duenna or The Double Elopement; and music from the ballet Cinderella, in one of its incarnations for solo piano.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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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