“Prokofiev’s first ‘official’ Soviet work, the dance epic Romeo and Juliet, showed him at his optimistic peak. In his autobiography, he identified five main lines in his writing: the classical, the modern, the motoric, the lyric, and the grotesque. In Romeo these modes find equilibrium, with the lyric at the center.”
-Alex Ross, The Rest is Noise
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Sergei Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights - The London Philharmonic
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