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Russian voices
From Glinka to Shostakovich: a century of Russian music, in the order it was written.
Glinka → Balakirev → Mussorgsky → Borodin → Rimsky-Korsakov → Tchaikovsky → Rachmaninoff → Scriabin → Prokofiev → Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25
This guide follows Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 “Classical” (1917) in three parts: Allegro (sonata form), Larghetto and Finale. Molto vivace (sonata form).
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- I
- II
- III.
1 opens with a loud chord and a rising flourish, a nod to the Classical 'Mannheim rocket', and a flute answers with a lighter second idea. Out of the comes the , a delicate tune with very wide leaps in the first violins over staccato bassoon. In the the flute idea passes between instruments in and builds to a (overlapping ). The starts in the 'wrong' of C major and slips back to D major when the flute idea ; the ends with the rocket once more.
- : 1 / M1.1
- : M1.1
II4:16–8:28
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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