Prokofiev trapped between father and son
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Western orchestras take a binary view of the Russian 20th century. Rachmaninov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich are good for business, the rest are box-office death. Like most iron rules, these categorisations are pointless and misleading.
Prokofiev can be bad for audiences, very bad, when you leave him alone in a room with a piano…
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