Every Friday we choose a monitor from a Naxos Music Group album launched twenty years in the past to offer the accompaniment for 5 minutes of your downtime.
This week’s choose from the Ondine label (ODE1060-2) encompasses a brief piano motion by Sergei Prokofiev. In 1940, the Bolshoi Theatre commissioned Prokofiev to put in writing a brand new full-length ballet, Cinderella, preparations for which had been lower brief by the battle, and the work was not premiered till 1945. Through the lengthy battle years, Prokofiev wrote quite a few piano preparations of numbers from the unperformed ballet. From his 6 Items from Cinderella, Op. 102, right here’s Amoroso.
