Prokofiev’s fate seems like a paradox – but only at first glance. Born in an era of global upheavals, he was interested in only one thing – music, his own music. Romeo and Juliet, No 13 ...

A forgotten musical score that Sergei Prokofiev wrote 70 years ago will finally have its premiere at Princeton University Friday. A Princeton professor found the score in a Russian archive while ...

A world premiere production of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev's "Music for Athletes," recently restored by Princeton music scholar Simon Morrison, will be staged at 7:30 p.m. Friday, July 17, in ...

Sergei Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1 in D Prokofiev was twenty-six when he composed his First Symphony, chiefly on holiday in the countryside. It received its premiere in St Petersburg in 1918 and ...

The 50th anniversary of Sergei Prokofiev's death hasn't gotten much attention locally, but there are always CDs. Releases mark Prokofiev's death - Los Angeles Times ...

The first and only recording of Prokofiev`s opera on the theme of exorcism; much of its music also went into the Third Symphony, which Gennady Rozhdestvensky brings to a boil on Mobile Fidelity ...

Wasn’t Prokofiev the “bad boy” of Russian music? For a time, yes. After his groundbreaking First Piano Concerto was premiered the press wanted Prokofiev “straight-jacketed”. His typical response was ...

The December 2014 edition of Looking Back to Bookspan’s “101 Masterpieces of Music and Their Composers” explores the music of Prokofiev, Rachmaninoff and Ravel.

People keep asking me why I recorded Sergei Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony for my first CD release in my new post leading the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra. The simple answer is that it just felt right ...