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Bourgeois capitalistic experimentalism got the music of Prokofiev, Schnittke and Part, among many others, banned or censured.
ECONOMIST: Banned music
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He would go on to study with both Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
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He will be buried in Novo-Devichy Cemetery, which also holds the graves of his teachers Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev.
NPR: Yo Yo Ma Reflects on Rostropovich
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The piano that, in its normal state, was fine for the brilliant Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev concertos did not suit the Schumann.
WSJ: When Two Makes Perfect | By Byron Janis
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Amazingly enough, he even ranks ahead of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Richard Strauss.
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My opening concert of that tour, in Moscow, consisted of three concertos: Prokofiev's Third, Rachmaninoff's First and the only one Schumann ever wrote.
WSJ: When Two Makes Perfect | By Byron Janis
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When playing octaves and difficult technical passages in big virtuoso works like those of Liszt, Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff, Horowitz could sound almost superhuman.
WSJ: When Two Makes Perfect | By Byron Janis
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Revealed then follows Gergiev to the Edinburgh International Festival, where the LSO will launch their 18-month worldwide tour, playing the complete cycle of the Prokofiev symphonies.
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And I think one of the things Slava used to say he would say that I went to three universities - the universities of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Britten.
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For her four performances in New York, which the often-touring pianist calls home, Ms. Wang will play Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, a physically explosive work that she points out includes many hand crossovers.
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Recently, he's been taking that car back to the music of his homeland, launching a worldwide tour in August of the complete cycle of symphonies from Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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