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Just now, letterblue said:

do you prefer this over the original song it was?

 

there's an alternate version of this song? I wanna hear it!


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I'm gonna wish my friends in Russia a revolutionary Christmas, or that lightning strikes twice there. BTW, Sergei Prokofiev, while he probably considered himself Russian, was born in Ukraine, and the Ukrainians have an airport named after him (recently trashed in the Russian invasion).  Machine guns at about 4:36 and later 6:25? it's used as percussion (as Zappa might say, you can't do that on stage -- or in a concert -- anymore).

 

 

 

Or, if you're only into shorter things, you might try this visual-midi presentation of JUST the piano part at the end of his 3rd Piano concerto (played by computer-sound generation). Interesting use of zig-zags in music for sure.

 

 

 

Finally, my earliest memory of hearing Prokofiev is hearing the above piano concerto on the radio. At the time, I was into ELP and Led Zeppelin and thought what I was hearing was pretty competitive. So, if whole-piece listening with live performers is your thing: Yuja wears a nice dress (useful for heat-dissipation, I would assume), and she memorized this piece (omg). 

 

 

 

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