Prokofiev - 4 Pieces, Opus 3

N

Playlists

L

Calm
Drama
Excitement
Romance
Study

4 Pieces, Opus 3

Sergei Prokofiev

composer portrait

Born

April 27, 1891

Died

March 5, 1953

Timeline

Modern

Nationality

Russia

More Composers

Modern

Binchois, Gilles

Bingen, Hildegard of

Dufay, Guillaume

Dunstaple, John

Machaut, Guillaume

Vitry, Philippe de

Agricola, Alexander

Arcadelt, Jacques

Busnois, Antoine

Caccini, Giulio

Gesualdo, Carlo

Janequin, Clément

Lassus, Orlande de

Ockeghem, Johannes

Palestrina, Giovanni

Praetorius, Michael

Prez, Josquin des

Victoria, Tomás L. de

Allegri, Gregorio

Frescobaldi, G.

Gibbons, Orlando

Lully, Jean-Baptiste

Monteverdi, Claudio

Pachelbel, Johann

Pergolesi, G. B.

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Scarlatti, Domenico

Telemann, G. P.

Vivaldi, Antonio

Beethoven, L. van

Bellini, Vincenzo

Cherubini, Luigi

Clementi, Muzio

Gluck, Christoph

Weber, Carl Maria von

Berlioz, Hector

Borodin, Alexander

Brahms, Johannes

Bruckner, Anton

Chopin, Frédéric

Debussy, Claude

Delius, Frederick

Dvořák, Antonín

Fauré, Gabriel

Glinka, Mikhail

Granados, Enrique

Indy, Vincent d'

Janáček, Leoš

Mendelssohn, Felix

Meyerbeer, Giacomo

Mussorgsky, Modest

Puccini, Giacomo

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai

Rossini, Gioachino

Saint-Saëns, Camille

Sarasate, Pablo de

Schubert, Franz

Schumann, Robert

Scriabin, Alexander

Smetana, Bedřich

Tchaikovsky, P. I.

Verdi, Giuseppe

Vieuxtemps, Henri

Wagner, Richard

Ysaÿe, Eugène

Amazon Offers

Stravinsky: Duo Concertant / Webern: Four Pieces, Op.7 / Prokofiev: Solo Violin ...

Used: $18.88

Prokofiev Plays Prokofiev

New: $6.42

Used: $4.98

Piano Music 1

New: $6.98

Used: $0.50

Piano Music 4

New: $9.87

Used: $5.54

Vol. 1 of the Complete Piano Music

Used: $8.99

Complete Solo Piano Music 1

Used: $4.50

Sergei Prokofiev: Works for Violin and Piano

Used: $5.49

Piano Concerto No 1

Used: $3.98

Prokofiev: Complete Piano Sonatas

Used: $38.75

Benno Moisewitsch: Great Pianists of the 20th Century, Vol. 70

Used: $7.50

Work Details
Similar Works

Composed

1911

Age

20

Genre

Solo Keyboard

Sub-Genre

Other

Sub-Sub-Genre

Catalogs

Opus 3

Music Scores

Sheet Music Plus

10 Pieces, Opus 12

10 Pieces from Cinderella, Opus 97

10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Opus 75

3 Pieces, Opus 59

3 Pieces, Opus 96

3 Pieces from Cinderella, Opus 95

4 Pieces, Opus 4

4 Pieces, Opus 32

6 Pieces, Opus 52

6 Pieces from Cinderella, Opus 102

Divertissement, Opus 43bis

March and Scherzo from The Love for Three Oranges, Opus 33ter

Music for Children, Opus 65

Pensées, Opus 62

Sarcasms, Opus 17

Things in Themselves, Opus 45

Visions Fugitives, Opus 22

YouTube Player

Sergei Prokofiev - Overture to Hebrew Themes,
Op. 34 (1919)

Movie Description from YouTube

Sergei Prokofiev - Overture to Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 Sergei Prokofiev wrote the Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34, in 1919, during a trip to the United States. It is written for a relatively uncommon instrumentation of clarinet, string quartet, and piano. Prokofiev arrived in New York in September, 1918. Overall, his years in America were not as successful as he had hoped: "The public here is not used to listening to the works of a single composer for a whole evening. People want a varied programme as a showcase for popular pieces. [Sergei] Rachmaninoff has accepted this compromise. I could not even dream of the overwhelming success he has with his concerts." Nevertheless, he did manage regular appearances in American concert halls. Though Rachmaninoff was the leading Russian pianist in America at the time (having introduced himself in 1909--1910), Prokofiev gave many concerts that season of his own works and emphasized his image as a pianist. Early in 1919, he was commissioned by a Jewish ensemble, Zimro, which had emigrated from the Soviet Union. (The members played the instruments in this work's instrumentation.) They gave Prokofiev a notebook of Jewish folksongs, and Prokofiev completed the composition very quickly. It received its premiere in New York in 1920, with Prokofiev at the piano. This piece was later orchestrated in 1934 as Op. 34a, although the orchestrated version is performed far less often. Its structure follows the form of a fairly conventional overture. It is in the key of C minor. The clarinet and the cello are very prominent, introducing the first and the second themes, respectively. However, all instruments are balanced well, and each instrument plays both themes, often in imitation. The piano part, interestingly, is not very difficult in comparison to Prokofiev's many virtuoso piano works; Zimro's pianist was probably an amateur. Jewish folk music has a paradoxically happy-yet-tragic and festive quality that many, including Dmitri Shostakovich, found very powerful. The first theme, un poco allegro, has a jumpy and festive rhythm, resembling those of gypsy airs. It also has a very characteristic use of semitone intervals, which recur throughout the whole work. The second theme, piu mosso, is a very songful cantabile theme, well-suited to the cello's upper range, that is then treated imitatively by all the other instruments.

YouTube Results

Page 1 of 2

youtube result thumbnail

Sergei Prokofiev - Overture to Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 (1919)

youtube result thumbnail

Vladimir Sofronitsky plays Prokofiev "Tales of a Grandmother" Op. 31

youtube result thumbnail

Prokofiev 5 Mélodies, Op 35bis プロコフィエフ:5つのメロディ

youtube result thumbnail

Isobel Warmelink plays: Prokofiev Five melodies for violin & piano, Op 35bis, ...

youtube result thumbnail

Quintet, Op. 39 by Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) Part I

youtube result thumbnail

Sergei Prokofiev: March, from the opera "The Love for Three Oranges", Op. 33

youtube result thumbnail

Prokofiev - Five Melodies, Op. 35 Ⅱ. Lento, Ma Non Troppo

youtube result thumbnail

Prokofiev - Five Melodies, Op. 35 Ⅲ.Animato, Ma Non Allegro

youtube result thumbnail

Prokofiev Quintet op 39, Festival RNO - Tomilova Porshneva Lebed Aizenstadt Krut...

youtube result thumbnail

Sergei Prokofiev - Quintet Op. 39 (1924)

about

|

contact

© 2016 openClassical.com | terms | privacy