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...Boston Symphony Orchestra--with Seiji Ozawa, conducter, and Janis Taylor, mezzo-soprano, performs Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 and Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky." At the Boston Symphony Hall at 2 p.m. on Friday and 8 p.m. on Saturday...
EMIL GILELS: PROKOFIEV & KABALEVSKI (harmonia mundi). Gilels was magisterial in both Prokofiev's brilliantly fertile Concerto No. 3 and his Second Sonata, but the exuberant, captivatingly melodic Piano Concerto No. 3, with composer Dmitri Kabalevski conducting, makes this reissue irresistible...
...wave of public revulsion rolled across the country. Moscow party chief Yuri Prokofiev was hauled in for questioning by the state prosecutor. Demonstrators toppled statues of Lenin and other communist heroes in major cities, and some democratic reformers were worried that the rising spirit of vindictiveness might threaten the safety of party officials, especially in non-Russian republics...
...PROKOFIEV: The Complete Piano Music, Vols. 1-4 (Chandos). For Sergei Prokofiev's centennial, Boris Berman has begun a welcome traversal of all this modern master's difficult solo piano music. It's safe to say of Berman -- whose strong technique is calculated to capture both the music's lyricism and its sardonic bite -- that his artistry equals his audacity...
...levels of the Soviet government, and this struggle is mirrored in every cultural institution, and particularly in the Bolshoi, the jewel in the Soviet crown," says Harlow Robinson, a professor of Slavic languages and literature at the State University of New York at Albany, a biographer of Prokofiev and a frequent visitor to the Bolshoi. "Because they previously were supported entirely by subsidy, they didn't have to worry about paying bills. These institutions are new at this, finding their own money. They are desperate...