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	Prokofiev's Symphony No.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prokofiev failed to meet the contract deadline for completing the score of his opera, The Fiery Angel, for the 1927-28 season of the Städtische Oper in Berlin, thus extending a series of failed attempts to get the work to the stage.
		The music in Prokofiev's Symphony No. 3 variously depicts the crazed obsession of Renata (the opera's main character) with the Fiery Angel (first movement), the solace of the convent (the second), and darker elements of witchcraft and devil possession (the third and fourth).
		With this recording of the symphony, we have for once the marriage of superb musicianship and spectacular sound reproduction.
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	Symphony No. 3 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, the Eroica
		Edward Elgar's Symphony No. 3 is a hypothetical work, elaborated from Elgar's sketches by the composer Anthony Payne in the 1990s, published as Edward Elgar: The Sketches for Symphony No. 3 Elaborated by Anthony Payne.
		Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3, the Polish
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Symphony_No._3 (189 words)

	Prokofiev's vexing entry into the USA. Part 3
		Prokofiev was told before leaving Petrograd that he had a studio in town.
		This time Prokofiev passed directly by Angel Island, which prompted him to recall the ordeal and the hospital into which he had been "exiled." Despite these unpleasant memories Prokofiev seems to have enjoyed visiting San Francisco, this city seemingly "on the other side of the world" from a Russian's point of view.
		In addition, the Third Symphony was a very apt choice for the San Francisco Symphony's celebration: the work's progenitor, The Fiery Angel, includes music intended for Prokofiev's "White Quartet," some of the very sounds that were going through his head as he arrived in America that cool but sunny day in August 1918.
	www.sprkfv.net /journal/three06/vexing3.html (1340 words)

	Program Notes
		SERGEI SERGEIEVICH PROKOFIEV was born in Sontsovka, in the Ekaterinoslav district of Ukraine, on April 23, 1891, and died in Moscow on March 5, 1953.
		Prokofiev’s conducting professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Nikolai Tcherepnin, was a contrarian in this regard, and encouraged his students to immerse themselves in the works of Haydn and Mozart to see what wisdom they could extract for their own compositions.
		Prokofiev would later explain that his intent was to translate musical classicism into a specifically twentieth-century idiom: “It seemed to me that if Haydn had lived into this era, he would have kept his own style while absorbing things from what was new in music.
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	Prokofiev, Sergey (1891 - 1953) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of Prokofiev's five piano concertos the third is best known, written in the composer's instantly recognisable musical language, from the incisive opening to the motor rhythms that follow, in a mixture of lyricism and acerbic wit.
		Chamber music by Prokofiev includes two sonatas for violin and piano, the second originally for flute and piano and revised by the composer, with the help of the violinist David Oistrakh.
		One of the most widely known of all Prokofiev's compositions is his tale for children Peter and the Wolf, for narrator and orchestra, a simple pedagogical work to introduce to children the instruments of the orchestra, with instruments or groups of instruments representing characters in the story.
	www.naxos.com /composer/prokofie.htm (595 words)

	Musical Forms - Symphony
		While his first two symphonies shared a development from Haydn's, no.3 was a departure: its four movements were on an unprecedentedIy large scale, and its dedication to Napoleon (later erased) proclaimed that its grandeur and power celebrated personal courage and the unconquerable human spirit.
		Several symphonies, notably no.4, involve the cyclic recall of themes; this may be connected with the programmatic content that he is believed to have followed and which no doubt (his programmes were not generally disclosed) governs the unorthodox use of a slow despairing finale to his last symphony, no.6 ('Pathétique').
		In the Symphonie fantastique and Harold en Italie Berlioz sought to unite the Beethoven conception of the symphony with his own penchant for descriptive, literary-inspired music by means of a recurrent idée fixe.
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	Sergei Prokofiev's Symphony No.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Today both are recognised as being among his strongest works, the symphony being in large measure a synthesis of ideas derived from the opera.
		The material of the symphony's first movement is based on themes connected with Renata, her obsession and the thwarted devotion of Ruprecht, who is in love with her.
		The whispering scherzo was inspired, as Prokofiev admitted, by the brief, unforgettable finale of Chopin's B flat minor Sonata.
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	Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prokofiev completed the Third Concerto on holiday at St. Brevin-les-Pins in Brittany in 1921, just after the successful performances of his ballet score Chout (The fool) and The Love for Three Oranges.
		The Concerto immediately found favour, and Prokofiev used it during his first return to Russia (performing with the conductorless orchestra Persimfans on 24 January 1927) as well as for his only concerto recording, with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1933.
		The ideas had been accumulating for nearly a decade - the theme of the middle movement was jotted down in 1913, two of its variations and the opening of the first movement date from 1916/18, and two of the finale's ideas are from a "white-key" quartet sketched in 1918.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/1891/op26.html (365 words)

	Symphony No. 3 (Prokofiev)
		The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, opus 44, by Sergei Prokofiev dates from 1928.
		The music of the symphony is highly chromatic and dissonant, with an emotional intensity which reflects the neuroticism and hysterics of the opera.
		The piece occupies a middle ground among Prokofiev's seven symphonies in terms of popularity, not as well-known as the Symphony No. 1 (the Classical), but not so neglected as the Symphony No. 2 or first version of the Symphony No. 4.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/symphony_no__3__prokofiev_ (253 words)

	:: INKPOT - Philip Glass - Symphonies No. 2 and 3 - Marin Alsop
		The symphonies here are presented in reverse order, with the shorter Third Symphony (almost by half) presented first, although it has four movements to the Second Symphony's three and is scored for a chamber orchestra of just nineteen string players.
		The Third Symphony, which was written in 1994, is very unlike the Glass most audiences would know from his previous works (which some commentators have described, rather unfairly, as being similar and repetitious to a fault).
		The truth is, the ostinato arpeggios and Alberti bass-lines one hears in Glass is no different, note for note, from what you'd find in a Haydn symphony or Mozart concerto, only that in Glass, they aren't used to support melody but allowed to speak for themselves.
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		May 20: finishes Lyatoshinsky: Symphony No. 2 endorsing the trend towards August 19-24: show-trial of the Symphony No. 4 in C minor, falsification of the past.
		March 5: Seventh Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 A. August: an agitprop memorandum January-February: NKVD renamed Symphony premiered in Khachaturian: Gayane (ballet) to the Central Committee claims NKGB under Beria.
		No. 8; Violin Concerto Karayev: is no longer random, it is winter offensive.
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	ON DEATH'S ANNIVERSARY, PROKOFIEV SPRINGS TO LIFE
		And it was not the usual Prokofiev standards, either---not the Classical Symphony nor No. 5, nor a suite from the "Romeo and Juliet" ballet.
		It was MTT being innovative and imaginative, with the Symphony No. 3, the obscure "American Overture," and the tuneful Piano Concerto No. 3 as the one audience hook.
		A Prokofiev could never have happened without the chaotic breakdowns of the early 20th century: the world war, the gas attacks and air war, the peasant uprising, the Bolshevik Revolution, the post-war economic disaster, the tottering of the monarchies.
	www.artssf.com /sfs0563.html (740 words)

	Amazon.com: Kun Woo Paik ~ Prokofiev - Piano Concertos, No. 1, Op. 10 · No. 3, Op. 26 · No. 4, Op. 53 / Polish NRSO ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prokofiev's scintillating first concerto student work is given a bright and bold reading by Kun Woo Paik and the third concerto is given a performance which is as satisfying and assured as Argerich.
		The concerto no. 3 is probably one of the most overplayed 20th century concertos, and, although it is a very effective concert piece and deserving of the attention, I find it hard to believe that these others have been neglected.
		These recordings of the Prokofiev 1st, 2nd and 3rd piano concertos, along with the other Naxos recording of the 2nd and 5th concertos, are remarkably high quality, not just for a budget label but in absolute terms.
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	Symphony No. 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You've said that the counterpoint is reduced in the Third Symphony so that the musical surface is a lot easier to understand and less difficult to come to terms with than, say, the 'Second Taverner Fantasia' or the First Symphony.
		A good example of a 'focused' section in the Third Symphony is in the first movement - between E1 to F1 - where the timpani and lower strings unfold the 'diminished seventh' - the pitches of which you described above - culminating on a D minor chord.
		I don't think symphonies 4 and 7 of Sibelius, for instance, were terribly popular pieces, but they had to be written and I think they cry-out to be played to an audience because they still say very, very important things about the nature of existence.
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	Prokofiev's Symphony No.4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prokofiev, freshly stung from missing a crucial deadline with the Städtische Oper in Berlin for his opera, The Fiery Angel (which cost him the opportunity of seeing the work staged in his lifetime), was not about to become a victim of the clock again.
		In short, the symphony often sounds as if it had been quickly pieced together to meet the commission deadline, though it was in fact finished in plenty of time.
		3, he and his forces are again superb--elegant and not overly fleet in the former, gripping and powerful in the latter.
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	Sergey Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44 / Symphony No. 4 in C major, Op. 47 (Original 1930 Version) - Neeme ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		That these symphonies are not more famous than they are simply amazes me. Prokofiev understood the nature of symphonic writing, and after the dainty cuteness of Symphony 1, he was ready to make his own mark.
		When Prokofiev is at his best, the result is a chimera of the two (to me, the piece Le Baiser de la Fee that Stravinsky finished for Tchaikovsky sounds like Prokofiev).
		Symphony 3 is probably the best example of Prokofiev's immense genius in fusing these disparate elements.
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	Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 Score (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sheet music downloads - Prokofiev - One of the greatest composers and pianists of the XX century, Prokofiev wrote an...
		PROKOFIEV, Sergei :Gilder-MusicWeb Dictionary of composers - Piano Concerto No 3 in C major (1917-21).
		Prokofiev nevertheless returned to the score and arranged it into a symphonic suite with...
	www.pianothings.com /prokofiev-piano-concerto-no.-3-score.html (817 words)

	Bay-Atlantic Symphony -Archives & History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1993, the Symphony was named "Orchestra in Residence" at the Stockton Performing Arts Center at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey in Pomona (20 miles west of Atlantic City).
		In 1999, the Symphony was named "The Resident Symphony at the Guaracini Fine and Performing Arts Center" located on the campus of Cumberland County College in Vineland, New Jersey.
		The Bay-Atlantic Symphony is a regional professional orchestra serving the population of the southern New Jersey with 40 musical programs a year.
	www.bayatlanticsymphony.org /text/archives_history.html (896 words)

	Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - Series: B2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Shortly after the death of Stalin, Shostakovich bade farewell to his nemesis with a Tenth Symphony filled with biting irony and thinly veiled defiance.
		No less inspiring is the glorious Second Symphony of the great German master Brahms.
		Michael Christie, newly appointed conductor of the Phoenix Symphony, presents Bizet's balletic symphony and the fresh American voice of Michael Hersch.
	www.atlantasymphony.org /calendar/subseries/b2.html (298 words)

	Roy Harris - Symphony No. 2, Morton Gould - Symphony No. 3 [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2002 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Turning to the Third Symphony this is a big work heavy with foreboding and with the complexities of a new world.
		The Harris Second Symphony flanks Harris's justly celebrated Third which itself is buttressed on the other side by the Fourth 'Folksong Symphony' (very much a cowboy choralfest).
		Harris's halting gawkiness, defiant raptus and Gabrieli-like writing for brass are in evidence as is the Big Country eloquence of symphonies 3, 5, 6 and 7.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2002/Dec02/harris2_gould3.htm (714 words)

	Prokofiev.org - Symphony No 3 in C minor Op.44 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Prokofiev: Symphonies / Kosler / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
		Prokofiev: Symphonies 3 & 4 / Järvi, Scottish National Orch
		Prokofiev: The 7 Symphonies / Ozawa, Berlin Philharmonic
	www.prokofiev.org /catalog/workall.cfm?WorkID=140 (519 words)

	Amazon.com: Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5; Lieutenant Kijé: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op.
		Prokofiev chose to celebrate this by writing a symphony which would celebrate "the grandeur of the human spirit" - and he has done just that.
		Prokofiev often augmented the highs and lows in his orchestration: E-flat clarinet, piccolo, xylophone and bells - piano, bass drum, tuba, contrabassoon et al, respectively.
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	Ana Palanciuc to perform with orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Palanciuc said she first heard "Piano Concerto No. 1" on a recording with the Moldavian Symphony Orchestra in her native Moldavia when she was in seventh grade.
		Prokofiev was quite bold when he first performed the work at a music competition, said Palanciuc.
		Performing with a group of her peers in the Natchitoches Northwestern Symphony will not be as intimidating, but standards will still be high.
	www.nsula.edu /news/palanc20.htm (511 words)

	Prokofiev Message Board - History: Piano Sonata No. 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Christian Science has no time at all for necromancy and other such practices, and according to those who have researched the matter (i.e.
		I'm sure there is still a lot to be discovered regarding Prokofiev's religious views prior to his becoming a Christian Scientist (a faith he retained even up to his return to the Soviet Union).
		Prokofiev himself is interested on self-control possibility given by Christian Science ideas, no more.
	www.prokofiev.org /forum/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=3&Topic=470 (471 words)

	Living - The Cincinnati Post
		The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra's 2004-05 Music Hall season is being called a "Season of Discovery," with no less than 68 artists making their CSO debuts.
		Järvi and the CSO will present the U.S. premiere of Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen's Symphony No. 8 ("Autumnal Fragments") at Music Hall Jan. 20, to be followed by its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall Jan. 24.
		Järvi will conduct Beethoven's Symphony No. 2, Brahms' 3rd, Mendelssohn's 4th ("Italian"), Mahler's 5th and, in observance of the centennial of Dvorak's death, his Symphonies No. 7 and 9.
	www.cincypost.com /2004/03/14/cso03-14-2004.html (908 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		This Prokofiev compilation from Deutsche Grammophon's new Panorama "twofer" series (two discs for the price of one) receives a 10/10 rating on the basis of the second disc alone, which contains the legendary 1967 Martha Argerich performance of the Third Piano Concerto and Lorin Maazel's unjustly neglected traversal of the mighty Fifth Symphony.
		Yes, DG has borrowed this Cleveland Orchestra performance of the symphony from Decca's late analog archives, and what a wise choice it proves to be.
		Maazel's conducting of the symphony begins ordinarliy enough, but about seven minutes into the first movement the energy builds and never relaxes until the very end of the Finale.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=2366 (426 words)

	Boston.com / A&E / Local events / Family datebook
		The program is $5; $3 ages 3-12; free under 3.
		The Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (GBYSO), Repertory Orchestra, and Senior Orchestra collaborate with Chorus pro Musica and mezzo-soprano Danute Mileika to present Prokofiev's cantata "Alexander Nevsky" tomorrow at 7:30 p.m.
		Other pieces played by the 12- to 18-year-old GBYSO musicians are Sibelius's Symphony No. 3 and Prokofiev's Overture Russe.
	www.boston.com /ae/events/articles/2004/03/13/family_datebook (467 words)

	My Favorite Recordings
		I imagine that no mortal could perform what was going through Beethoven's head when he wrote these pieces.
		I use to think that no performance of the 8th could be better than Walter's, then I found Silvestri.
		I was at the performance of this symphony shortly before this recording was made.
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	MP3 Archive Search
		Adagio - Allegro moderato - Poco adagio Symphony No. 3: 2.
		Poco adagio Saint-Sakns "Organ" Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op.
		Allegro vivace Sergei Rachmaninoff / Symphony No. 2 in E Minor, Op.
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