Five melodies for violin and piano (Prokofiev)
Five Melodies op. 35a for violin and piano is a chamber music work by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev from 1925, based on a transcription of Five Songs Without Words, Op. 35 .
background
The Five Melodies op.35a for violin and piano are a revision of the Five Songs Without Words , which Prokofiev composed in 1920 and dedicated to the Russian singer Nina Koschlitz , a cycle of vocalises that are related to the melodic conception of Rachmaninoff . The Five Melodies are “typical of Prokofiev's music: now exquisite, expressive, now witty joking, now with purposeful motor skills.” One of the five songs or melodies, No. 4, A major , was also adapted for piano by Prokofiev integrated it into the cycle of the six transcriptions , op.52.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Valentin Cholopova: Prokofiev's Chamber Music . In: International Music Festival - Sergei Prokofiev and contemporary music from the Soviet Union. Program book. City of Duisburg, 1990 p. 256