It is a mark of Prokofiev's genius that even when he was writing propaganda music for his Soviet masters, his originality rarely failed to shine through. His last opera, The Story of a Real Man, was ...

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the death of Sergei Prokofiev, the Russian composer who produced one of the most influential modern musical works about Jewish cultural identity, although his ...

' I suppose there's always this risk and fear of too much comparison," says Gabriel Prokofiev, when asked what it's like to be the grandson of the great Russian composer, Sergei. "Certainly, when I ...

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Prokofiev’s most popular concerto has inspired a range of interpretations since the composer’s own 1932 recording. David Gutman picks the finest from a burgeoning discography Sviatoslav Richter, a ...

Soviet pianist and composer Sergei Prokofiev died 60 years ago, on March 5, 1953, at the age of 61. He had been ill for many years and may have died from a cerebral hemorrhage. His death happened to ...

What connects Alice Cooper, Bill Clinton, Boris Karloff and David Attenborough? They have all narrated one of the most popular pieces of classical music in the world – Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the ...

Prokofiev had the misfortune to die on the same day as Stalin Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev died 50 years ago on Wednesday. BBC News Online looks at his legacy. It is tempting to wonder if the ...

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I SEE myself sitting in the hall of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (or was it in the Great Hall of Nobility?) at a concert to the memory of Scriabin. This was a concert given by Rachmaninoff for the ...