Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet

André Previn, London Symphony Orchestra

Sergei Prokofiev

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The violent feud between the Montagues and Capulets is evoked by the swaggering Dance of the Knights, but Prokofiev’s score brims with bittersweet lyricism in its depiction of the young lovers, proving him Russian ballet’s heir to Tchaikovsky. First performed in 1938, Romeo and Julie

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