Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Serge Prokofiev was a Russian Composer who lived and composed in Leningrad and Paris in the first half of the twentieth century, he wrote many pieces of music, many of which were politically motivated or manipulated whichever way you want to look at it, some of which were used for the Russian film industry, however in the midst of the lead up to the second world war at a time when he was undertaking propaganda trips to the west he wrote and composed ...
...music, in the form of a symphonic fairytale, Peter and the Wolf. Even if you don’t know what it is when you hear it there are very few people who will not recognise the music to Peter and the Wolf. The original idea was to introduce children to the different instruments of the orchestra by way of relating them to the characters, for example a piccolo (small flute) plays the section to describe a bird and a base clarinet being the cat. The story, ...

MHam 15.01.2004 · Read full review
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