Return
Donald Macleod looks at the reasons behind Prokofiev's decision to return to Russia in the early 1930s. He was permitted to take European and American tours up to 1938, but then he was trapped, and would never leave again.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Sonata no 7 for piano - 3rd movement Precipitato
Performer: Peter Donohoe
- CDC:754281-2.
- 7.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Le pas d'acier - extract) L'usine
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch (conductor)
- EMI: 46974 2.
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Sergey Prokofiev
First String Quartet op 50 extract 3rd movement
Performers: Pavel Haas quartet
- Supraphon: SI 3957-2.
- 3.
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Sergey Prokofiev
2nd violin concerto op 63
Performers: Vadim Repin (violin), Halle Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)
- Warner: 0927496352.
- 1.
Broadcast
- Fri 11 Jan 201312:00BBC Radio 3
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