How To Use Prokofiev In A Sentence
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I see it as more sardonic and astringent, in the manner of Prokofiev.
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Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
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A couple of the pieces have the stamp of Prokofiev, and the other three reflect strong 19th Century influences.
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Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
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A whirlwind final movement, allegro - andante - vivace molto capriccioso - with something of the feel of Bartók and Prokofiev, ends by quoting material from the earlier movements.
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Mike, who was just a kid in the neighborhood with odd — evolved? sophisticated?— taste, had dozens more tapes: Brahms, Mozart, Bach, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Strauss.
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Rostropovich spent two summers with the ailing Prokofiev and was astonished at the patience with which his suggestions were received during the rewriting of the concerto and the gestation of other works.
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For instance, Prokofiev's boringly patriotic 1945 opera adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace was taken as using the dramatic defeat of Napoleon in 1812 as an allegory for the Red Army's recent repulsion of the Nazis.
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It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
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The Prokofiev sonata comes first on the disc.
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Prokofiev conceived it ‘as a symphony of the greatness of human spirit’; a triumph of victory over adversity at the end of the Second World War.
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Prokofiev fashioned a suite of six pieces resembling a classical divertimento, but one laced with dissonances, evoking Stravinsky's Octet.
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Oleg Marshev is a fine interpreter of the Piano Concerto having already recorded excellent accounts of the Shostakovich and Prokofiev concertos.
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Juliet's coltish, little girl steps soon slink, like Prokofiev's undulating score, into something languorous and self knowing enough to convince us she is now a woman in love.
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This is the last of the evening-length ballets Prokofiev wrote in the Soviet Union.
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Prokofiev started composing at the age of five.
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Gringolts shows maturity beyond his 21 years in his rich phrasing of the boldly romantic Sibelius and the prickly angularity of the Prokofiev.
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In an ambitious act of redemption, the LPO and Jurowski have mounted a 14-event festival entitled Prokofiev: Man of the People?
LPO/Jurowski; Betrothal in a Monastery; Psappha ensemble; SCO/Ticciati – review
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During the first months of the war Serge Prokofiev wrote his symphonic suite ‘The year 1941 ’, and later his Fifth Symphony, as did Aram Khatchaturian his Second.
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The piano sonatas of Prokofiev are considered as the masterpieces that inherit the classical piano art tradition and begin the new style of the twentieth century.
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In both the first and third movements I was often reminded of the toccata-like sections of Prokofiev's sonatas and concertos, though Lees' melodic and harmonic approaches are quite different.
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The Scherzo is not in triple time and indeed sounds more like the gavotte in Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, years before the fact.
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His brilliant rhythmic dexterity and idiomatic sense of Prokofiev's ‘Music of New Russia’ captured the sarcasm and biting wit of the Scherzo: Allegro marcato.
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Often, at pedagogy conferences, we witness prodigiously talented fourteen-year-olds taking a master lesson in huge pieces like Prokofiev sonatas or Chopin scherzos.
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Prokofiev's daunting cluster chords and rapid fire pianistic flourishes held no terrors for her.
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The music for the cantata Alexander Nevsky was taken from Sergei Prokofiev's score for a movie of the same name which won him popular acclaim but displeased the Soviet government.
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His brilliant rhythmic dexterity and idiomatic sense of Prokofiev's ‘Music of New Russia’ captured the sarcasm and biting wit of the Scherzo: Allegro marcato.
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It is also unusual for Prokofiev to reflect on external events in his music - the fluffiness of the Classical Symphony, for example, came in 1917, the tumultuous year of the Russian Revolution.
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The celebrity thing is already going full bore. iTunes just uploaded the recordings Anne made for Sony, including: ⢠Prokofiev Violin Concertos ⢠American Album ⢠Lalo/Bruch: Symphonie espagnole/Scottish Fantasy ⢠Franck/Strauss: Violin Sonatas
Laurence Vittes: Nexus of the Arts: Anne Akiko Meyers, Keith Olbermann and Antonious Stradivarious
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Although Brendel generally does not look kindly upon his distant discographical past (he apparently "disowns" his world-premiere Prokofiev Fifth Concerto that closes disc 35), he certainly has little for which to apologize here, musically and pianistically speaking.
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Prokofiev started composing at the age of five.
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They are asking $20.00 for each two-disc set and will throw in a lagniappe for anyone who orders both sets: the US Premiere of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky!
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Basing their theory on first-principles simulations, Prokofiev, Svistunov and colleagues argue that this bizarre effect is due to a synergy between superfluidity in the cores of imperfections known as dislocations and the known ability of dislocations to "climb," that is, grow under conditions when mass flow is provided to their cores.
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The opening zips along with sparkling, clear articulation in a style more typical for early Prokofiev than for a member of the less ferocious Les Six.
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The opening of the next piece, a concerto from 2009 for a Russian form of accordion called the bayan, was as deeply serious as Prokofiev's was light.
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Gone are the days of programming a Bach prelude & fugue, a Beethoven sonata, a Chopin ballade and then ending with the Prokofiev Toccata.
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It was an almost slapstick comedy in which Stalin and his cultural henchman Zhdanov confront Prokofiev and Shostakovich.
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The piano sonatas of Prokofiev are considered as the masterpieces that inherit the classical piano art tradition and begin the new style of the twentieth century.
