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Absolute Prokofiev - The Easter Festival in Moscow

No. 3 - Romeo and Nostalgia

Season 1, Episode 3 • Music
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Type: Classical Orchestra
Orchestra: The Mariinsky Orchestra
Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Solo Violinist: Leonidas Kavakos
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Location: The Mariinsky Orchestra
Year: 2012

The 3rd concert of the “Absolute Prokofiev” cycle turns toward a lyrical and introspective side of the composer with the Violin Concerto No. 1 and No. 2. Prokofiev reveals a different voice that blends his characteristic wit and clarity with a poetic, singing line. The First Concerto drifts between dreamlike delicacy and sudden flashes of energy, while the Second, written during his years of travel in the 1930s, combines elegance with a subtle undercurrent of tension and unease.

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Orchestral Music, Gala, Easter, Prokofiev, Valery Gergiev, Leonidas Kavakos, Romeo and Juliet, Modernist

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