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		Sinfonia Concertante in E minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op.
		Prokofiev scored this composition for solo cello and an orchestra of two flutes and piccolo, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets (a third player can be used on an ad libitum basis), three trombones, tuba, timpani and other percussion, celesta and strings.
		Prokofiev completed his Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra in 1952, but the work’s origin can be traced back nearly two decades earlier.
	www.slso.org /0203notes/sub6.htm (2470 words)

	Sinfonia concertante - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sinfonia concertante is a musical form that originated in the classical music era, and is a mixture of the symphony and the concerto genres:
		Prokofiev called his work for cello and orchestra Symphony-Concerto, stressing its serious symphonic character, in contrast to the light character of the Classical period sinfonia concertante.
		The concerto for orchestra differs from the sinfonia concertante in that concertos for orchestra have no soloist or group of soloists that remains the same throughout the composition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sinfonia_concertante (696 words)

	Sinfonia Concertante (Prokofiev) biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Sergei Prokofiev's Cello Concerto No. 2 in E Minor, written between 1950 and 1952, is a large-scale work for Cello and Orchestra.
		Prokofiev dedicated it to Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered it on February 18, 1952 with Sviatoslav Richter conducting.
		His work was disparaged as bourgeois and formalistic, and his first wife was convicted as a spy and taken to a forced-labor camp.
	www.biography.ms /Sinfonia_Concertante_(Prokofiev).html (145 words)

	Symphony-Concerto (Prokofiev) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto in E minor (sometimes also called Sinfonia Concertante), is a large-scale work for cello and orchestra.
		Prokofiev dedicated it to Mstislav Rostropovich, who premiered it on February 18, 1952 with Sviatoslav Richter conducting (the only instance of Richter conducting).
		Since the Central Committee decision on February 10th, 1948, Prokofiev was considered a "suspect" musician.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony-Concerto_(Prokofiev) (339 words)

	Amazon.com: Serge Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for Cello & Orchestra, Op. 125 / Nikolai Miaskovsky: Cello Concerto, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Amazon.com: Serge Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for Cello & Orchestra, Op.
		Serge Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante for Cello & Orchestra, Op.
		Sinfonia Concertante for cello & orchestra in E minor, Op.
	www.amazon.com /Serge-Prokofiev-Concertante-Orchestra-Miaskovsky/dp/B000001GXV (643 words)

	SYMPHONY REVIEW: The French Connection? By John Lutterman (San Francisco Symphony, Lynn Harrell, May 9, 2004)
		Michael Tilson Thomas and the orchestra are exceptionally well-suited to this repertoire and the indefatigable cellist Lynn Harrell was soloist in the Prokofiev.
		Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante, for cello and orchestra, is an effective but rather long, convoluted work, with an equally long and convoluted history.
		Inspired by Rostropovich, who soon became his close friend, student and champion, Prokofiev began work on a series of substantial revisions, the last of which was finished in 1952, just a few months before his death in March, 1953.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/sfsym_5_11_04.php (711 words)

	Sinfonia Concertante (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This Sinfonia Concertante is the very opposite of "minimal music"; at the risk of seeming to pun, one might almost call it "maximal".
		The early Sinfonia (1962) pointed the way, while the electrifying A Mirror of Whitening Light (1977), strictly speaking for chamber ensemble with single strings, showed that the medium is something he views with no less intensity.
		The Sinfonia Concertante is the first of three works, not musically linked, but all for chamber orchestra and thus indicative of a renewed commitment to the medium.
	www.maxopus.com /works/sin_conc.htm (1609 words)

	Conversation with Mstislav Rostropovich
		Rostropovich was soloist in the premieres of Prokofiev's second Cello Concerto in 1952, Shostakovich's two Cello Concertos in 1959 and 1966, Britten's Cello Symphony in 1964 and Bliss's Cello Concerto in 1970.
		Rostropovich was a close friend of Sergei Prokofiev and was the inspiration behind the LSO's Sergei Prokofiev: The Centenary Festival 1991, featuring orchestral and chamber music, and the world premiere of a cello fugue dedicated to Rostropovich.
		Prokofiev was in the audience and he came up to me afterwards and said, "I think there is some good material in the piece, but I don't like its shape.
	www.cello.org /Newsletter/Articles/rostropovich/rostropovich.htm (3250 words)

	Russian Soul
		His recorded legacy is rich, as demonstrated by this compilation, chosen by the artist's devoted admirer, Steven Isserlis.
		Shafran's première recording of the 2nd Kabalevsky Concerto,of which he was the dedicatee, is coupled with a live performance of Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante, a legendary performance here issued for the first time on CD.
		If Shafran's white-hot reading of Prokofiev comfortably survives comparison with Rostropovich's two commercial accounts, his Kabalevsky (of which he was the dedicatee) is finer still - a fitting companion to his classic première recording of the first Concerto on Revelation, also with the composer conducting.
	www.celloclassics.com /cc1008.htm (369 words)

	Prokofiev - Sinfonia Concertante [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Apr 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As I have recently had cause to write in connection with Daniil Shafran's Cello Classics recording, the Sinfonia Concertante is a reworking of his Cello Concerto in E minor from 1939.
		Nevertheless it is rife with Prokofiev's keen fantasy and romantic edginess.
		The orchestral part is rendered with the depth of character invited by Prokofiev's writing but that strength of character is not projected by the soloist.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Apr03/prokofiev_sinfonia_concertante.htm (330 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Sergey Prokofiev
		Prokofiev, Sergey (Sergeyevich) (b Sontsovka, 1891; d Moscow, 1953).
		Never fully at home in the W., Prokofiev re-visited Russia in 1927 and 1929 and returned there to live in 1933, choosing an inopportune moment when the doctrine of ‘socialist realism’ in the arts had just been propounded.
		Though regarded as impossibly dissonant and avant-garde in his youth, Prokofiev can now be seen as in the direct line of Russ.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/prokofiev.html (804 words)

	Prokofiev.org - Prokofiev vs Stalin
		I managed to change the topic to a more substantial one -- it didn't matter who died earlier because Prokofiev had managed the last laugh on the "cockroach with whiskers"¹ in the finale of his Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra, Op 125.
		Just a while before I happened on the thread, I had been lucky enough to attend the final rehearsal and concert performance of Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante in Kiev on 24-March-1998 to honor the memory of Sviatoslav Richter, who had died the previous August.
		Israel Nestyev, the then-eminent Soviet musicologist and official Prokofiev biographer, stated in the insert booklet that the triple time central theme of the Finale of the Sinfonia is similar to a folk Belorussian "farewell" melody.
	www.prokofiev.org /articles/sinfonia.html (973 words)

	Symphony performance so fresh, the familiar seemed new
		The indisputable addition was Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante (or "Symphony-Concerto," depending on the translation) for Cello and Orchestra, that big and intractable fruit of the composer's late collaboration with the young Mstislav Rostropovich.
		Completed in 1952, a year before the composer's death, the Sinfonia Concertante draws on material from the E-Minor Cello Concerto of two decades earlier, and its enormous technical demands and dramatic fervency are essentially a tribute to the gifts of the 26-year-old Rostropovich.
		On one hand are those who savor the score's thematic abundance and plain-spoken rhetoric; on the other are those who hear mostly diffuseness and (as with much of Prokofiev's late work) a pallid shadow of his earlier melodic genius.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/13/DDGV16JST71.DTL (538 words)

	Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante; TchaIkovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme; Andante Cantabile
		Yo yo Ma's interpretation of this Sinfonia Concertante is boring.
		The second movement especially drags along; it lacks the tremendous drive that was originally intended for this piece as well as a lack of expression.
		The Variations for Cello and Orchestra are spirited, joyful and lushly played and Prokoviev's Sinfonia Concertante is peformed with power and strength as a Russian-Soviet era piece should be.
	www.riderinfo.com /motorcycle-books/isbnB0000027ZW.html (455 words)

	Amazon.com: Sinfonia Concertante: Music: Prokofiev,Lso,Chang,Pappano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prokofiev CDs at Allegro — Allegro is your direct source for independent classical music.
		Prokofiev's underrated Cello Sonata makes a worthwhile addition, and if you're not yet familiar with this rewarding music, this is a good place to start.
		She captures the nuances of the piece's passions, which is uncharacteristic of Prokofiev's music.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000083GK0 (1221 words)

	MIDI: PROKOFIEV - I Write The Music
		Sinfonia Concertante in E minor for cello and orchestra, Op.125
		In depth essay on the Prokofiev's relationship with the Soviet regime.
		Discography of all recordings made by Prokofiev as a pianist, including analysis of his 78 RPM recordings.
	iwritethemusic.com /midi-prokofiev.html (812 words)

	alan little’s weblog
		I had never heard of Signor Pappano before either, but he made a very highly acclaimed recording of the Prokofiev with Ms Chang so I was looking forward to hearing them.
		The first few minutes of the Prokofiev were a little uneasy – Ms Chang glancing over her shoulder a lot as if she wasn’t quite sure if she could trust the orchestra under an unknown deputy conductor and wanted to keep an eye on what they were up to.
		Ms Chang and Signor Pappano’s CD of the Prokofiev was on sale in the interval; Ms Chang was even signing them in a very cheerful and friendly manner – rather than collapsing exhausted backstage, as I’m sure I would if I had just played something like that.
	www.alanlittle.org /weblog/Remmereit.html (572 words)

	Miaskovsky & Prokofiev - Cello Concertos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Here, however, musical impact takes effect right from Prokofiev's introductory bars: Paavo Järvi and his players cut a commanding profile and the recording conveys a startlingly realistic sound stage, especially from the lower strings.
		Of the wealth of cellists actually able to play works as demanding as the Prokofiev, Mørk is one of the most talented.
		"In the opening of the Prokofiev, Mørk delivers the captivating melody with tremendous intensity and is both poignant and virtuosic throughout, dishing out the technical hurdles with awesome ease while revelling in both the drama and contrasting fantasy in the final movement.
	home.earthlink.net /~sandrikasaw/truls.html (796 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Prokofiev's Sinfonia concertante has its supporters and detractors, but I have always fallen somewhere in the middle: I want to like it but the piece never has really worked for me. In particular, Rostropovich's unequalled intensity in the solo part always has been compromised by soft-edged or unsatisfactory accompaniments (or recordings).
		Now if you have always loved this piece or think the above observations are simply nonsense, you can ignore all of the forgoing; but if you have yet to be won over or, like me, have been essentially sitting on the fence waiting for an epiphany, this performance may offer just the ticket.
		The finale similarly achieves an all-too-rare feeling of inexorability, with Pappano holding nothing back in the closing pages as the orchestra brass propel the soloist into her highest register for the remarkable final bars.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=6586 (503 words)

	Rolling Stone : Sergey Prokofiev : Discography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 5 / The Year 1941
		PROKOFIEV: Symphony No. 1, 'Classical' / Symphony No. 5
		Violin Sonatas: Brahms, Prokofiev, Schubert, Strauss, Schumann, Faure
	www.rollingstone.com /artists/sergeyprokofiev/discography (131 words)

	Visit Swansea Bay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Includes Overture, Coriolan (Beethoven), Sinfonia Concertante (Prokofiev) and Symphony No 9 (Schubert).
		And BBC NOW is joined by one of the most exciting young classical music talents to have emerged in recent years: Alban Gerhardt is the soloist in Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante - a cello concerto in all but name, direct and incisive but full of deep lyrical warmth.
		The Brangwyn hall is one of the principal cultural locations in Swansea and is regularly used for functions, weddings, award ceremonies, conferences and concerts where our experienced staff ensure a first class service.
	www.visitswanseabay.com /whattodo/event_detail.asp?ID=2083 (477 words)

	oct1400
		The 1938 premiere of Sergei Prokofiev’s Cello Concerto, Op 58 was a “complete fiasco.” The cellist engaged for the performance didn’t understand Prokofiev’s style.
		Nine years later, Prokofiev attended a performance of the concerto with piano accompaniment at a small hall in the Moscow conservatory.
		Motivated by the collaboration with Rostropovich, Prokofiev began two more major works for cello, but they remained unfinished at his death, March 5, 1953.
	www.andrews.edu /~mack/pnotes/oct1400.html (861 words)

	washingtonpost.com: NSO: Brilliant Playing Of Sprawling Strauss
		This strong foundation led to some zesty main themes, which the NSO etched with golden ensemble and tone.
		The orchestra provided equally sensitive accompaniment to the graceful young cellist Han-Na Chang in a vigorous performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Sinfonia Concertante in E Minor for Cello and Orchestra, Op.
		This extroverted 21-year-old possesses a prodigious musical talent, and it is little wonder why she is in such high demand with the world's great orchestras.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A53457-2004Oct22?language=printer (507 words)

	Prokofiev - Compare DVD Prices - Buy Cheap DVDs at Movie Wormer
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	Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante - Wal-Mart
		Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante For Cello And Orchestra Op.125 - I. Andante (Featuring Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
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	classical music cd reviews : 7 July 1997
		What better coupling for a cello concerto program than Prokofiev's rarely heard Sinfonia Concertante and Nikolai Miaskovsky's obscure concerto for cello and orchestra.
		Life-long friends with a published correspondence over 43 years and their own best critics, Miakovsky (1881 - 1950) and Prokofiev (1891 - 1953) managed to produce important scores under Socialist Realism in the Soviet Union and survive Zhdanov's famous 1948 purge.
		Cellist Misha Maisky and conductor Mikhail Pletnev and the Russian National Orchestra are hardly strangers to Prokofiev's quirky, musical ironies and thus make a strong case for a work which was poorly received by the Soviet government and public at its première (the earlier incarnation as the Concerto for Cello, op.
	www.culturekiosque.com /klassik/cdreview/rherevw.htm (1410 words)

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