EISENSTEIN, SERGEI & SERGEI PROKOFIEVBiblio.com
PROKOFIEV, Serge 1891-1953Biblio.com
Fifth Symphony . op. 100. Full score
194741088Moscow . Leningrad: State Music Publishers PN 18295 1947. Folio. Black cloth-backed boards with publisher's printed wrappers laid down titling in white ink to spine. 1f. recto title verso orchestration and note on transposition 3-207 i note listing editors Belza and Agapov date of publication 6 January 1947 and limitation statement pp. With titling etc. in Russian and English. <br /> <br /> With numerous performance markings including dynamics expression bowings and numbering in gray red and blue pencil. <br /> <br /> Annotation in ink to front pastedown "Cond. New Orleans Symphony. January 23 1962." Handstamp "1098" and "3 60" in pencil to lower inner corner of verso of final leaf with annotation in pencil to verso of free rear endpaper noting timing according to different conductors including AA New Orleans Martinon Rodziński Ormandy Dorati Bernstein and Szell.<br /> <br /> Binding slightly worn rubbed and bumped; minor soiling to blank lower wrapper. Browned; small tear to blank lower margin of pp. 17-106 and p. 189; tear to blank lower margin of p. 91 extending into lowermost two systems repaired with archival tape. First Edition limited to 3000 copies. Nestyev p. 370. <br /> <br /> The Fifth Symphony premiered in Moscow on 13 January 1945. <br /> <br /> Prokofiev "began his career as a composer while still a student and so had a deep investment in Russian Romantic traditions - even if he was pushing those traditions to a point of exacerbation and caricature - before he began to encounter and contribute to various kinds of modernism in the second decade of the new century. Like many artists he left his country directly after the October Revolution; he was the only composer to return nearly 20 years later. His inner traditionalism coupled with the neo-classicism he had helped invent now made it possible for him to play a leading role in Soviet culture to whose demands for political engagement utility and simplicity he responded with prodigious creative energy. In his last years however official encouragement turned into persecution and his musical voice understandably faltered. .<br /> <br /> The Fifth Symphony . displays the freely tonal harmonies melodic and thematic wealth of ideas and lyrical expressivity characteristic of the mature Prokofiev - qualities that have established the work firmly in the international repertory." Dorothea Redepenning in Grove Music Online. State Music Publishers [PN 18295] unknown
