Concert Band/Harmonie -
Grade 5
SKU:
BT.DHP-0960683-010
Composed by Sergei
Prokofiev. The Great
Classics. Concert Piece.
Set (Score & Parts).
Composed 1996. De Haske
Publications #DHP
0960683-010. Published by
De Haske Publications
(BT.DHP-0960683-010).
The Russian
ballet director Sergei
Diaghilev commissioned
many composers to write
music for the theatre.
This was what caused
Serge Prokofiev to
compose the four part
Scytische Suite (also
known as Ala and Lolli)
in 1916, from which The
Enemy God and the Dance
of the Spirits can be
heard on this CD. This
suite is one of
Prokofiev's first works,
and received negative
criticism following its
first performance on
account of its being
uncivilised. Prokofiev
himself wrote after this
first performance . . .
The timpani player beat
the skin of the timpani
to tatters, and the whole
orchestra voiced a
protest. A cellist
complained that he only
put up with the violence,
createdby the blaring
brass, on account of his
sick wife and three
children . . ..
