When confronted with a disc called Prokofiev -- An Introduction, the inevitable first question is "how apt an introduction is it?" The answer is: fairly apt. While the program clearly leans toward the well known -- the "Troika" from Lieutenant Kije, the March from The Love for Three Oranges and, of course, Peter and the Wolf are all here -- and ...
The novelty of this version of Peter and the Wolf is the narrator: Lina Prokofiev, the composer's wife, whom he abandoned in 1948. She had a thoroughly cosmopolitan upbringing, and she had a precocious knack for languages, so it would be impossible to tell from this recording that she was not a native English speaker. She was in her late eighties ...
The novelty of this version of Peter and the Wolf is the narrator: Lina Prokofiev, the composer's wife, whom he abandoned in 1948. Lina Prokofiev had a thoroughly cosmopolitan upbringing, and she had a precocious knack for languages, so it would be impossible to tell from this recording that she was not a native English speaker. She was in her ...
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