Prokofiev S. Queen of Spades. Fragments from the music to the film of the same name. For symphony orchestra

It happened in 1936, when Sergei Prokofiev composed music to the film “Queen of Spades” after A. S. Pushkin’s story of the same name according to the producer Mikhail Romm’s order. However, the work was prohibited by the cinematographic committee, because of the “turn to contemporary theme”. Meanwhile, some excerpts were used later in the other compositions.

In 1960 the suite “Pushkiniana” was compiled by the conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky of the score fragments from Prokofiev’s music to the film “Queen of Spades”, so as Alexander Tairov’s “Yevgeny Onegin” and Vsevolod Meyerhold’s “Boris Godunov”.

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HERMAN 
LIZA  
BALL (POLONAISE)