Word: prokofievs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record of 1945.* Taking Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 apart, he extracted Ever and Forever from the first movement, and Full Moon and Empty Arms from the third. He rewrote the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde and called it Time Stands Still. He converted Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf into Dingbat the Singing Cat and is now waiting for When I Write My Song (from Saint-Saens' aria My Heart at Thy Sweet Voice) to make the Hit Parade. Rimsky-Korsakov's Hymn to the Sun became Mossman...
...others: Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius...
...Symphony (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, Prokofiev's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3, Sibelius' Symphony No. 1. Conductor: Anthony Collins...
...Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 10 sides). A highly polished version of one of the decade's chief musical achievements, by the maestro who gave the symphony its U.S. premiere in November 1945. Performance: excellent...
...Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Robin Hood Dell Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting and at the piano; Columbia, 6 sides). An early opus-started in 1917, completed in 1921-which lacks the composer's later lyricism, is difficult to play and almost as difficult to take. Performance: good...