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Omg...its just taking me to the another world... just closed my eyes and i saw myself in my dreams with a prince. And seriously people talking about disco song?? Im gonna laugh at them!
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I can see why some of you consider this creepy, but the musical tension is so exciting! Without all the crazy notes and stuff, it'd just be another princessy waltz. And I don't know about you but dang, I'm sick of those. This waltz is pure AWESOMENESS. Prokofiev's the shiz
Maybe this is a perspective of Cinderella's sisters as they glare jealously towards her during her waltz? Probably thinking something along that lines of: "Who is that girl?! I wish she'd DIE! >:( "
Hi everyone, I'm 7 years old. I listen to classical music a lot! I have also composed 5 symphonies and 3 piano concertos (I'd tell you to check out my account to hear them, but they're on my brother's account.) I even play for the New York Philharmonic. Come see me play sometime--I stand out in the orchestra easily!
@takgosky wow, already 8 years old? Last time I had the good fortune to attend one of your performances, you were still four years old and were still composing your second symphony... Great job kid!
@takgosky On your brothers account? So we can't hear them? What a shame. Perhaps though in 20 years you become as well known as Sergei, then we'll all know you anyway. Good luck, and I hope you grow up.
There is a lot of tension in this waltz. Reading that it was written during WW II makes this more understandable. I wish some of this tension was dissipated during the climax if there is one.
This kind of made me think of this huge ball with thousands of men and women in gorgeous clothing and diamond mask who all whirled around the room with knives in their hands that flashed in the candlelight.
@WritingGirl24 Yes! I had a damn near similar image in mind, except instead of masks, I envisioned the people with expressionless eyes but huge grins on their faces. Prokofiev is the Tim Burton of music; creepy and cheerful is a hard combination to nail with this kind of success.
@OrionoftheStar It has its moments of happiness. XD But no, it was written during WWII, which I think would explain at least some of its macabre-ness.
I used another section of the score for a little ballet I just did: "A Haunting Waltz." You can see it here on youtube.com. I love Prokofiev's quirky score.
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Can you imagine Prokofiev writing this enchanting music while many of his artistic friends (and ex wife)were being sent to gulags?? I can't even imagine what he was thinking, the pressure he was under. Under such terrible circumstances creative beauty can some how grow--like this. But you cannot blame Prokofiev if this Cinderella is darker than say ala Tchaivkovsky--he was, as i said, living under a state of terror (Stalin)--it cannot help but seep into even light music.
For me, this song is very dark, but also extremely exciting. I picture a masquerade ball with everyone wearing black and dancing in a candlelit ballroom, but its also very easy to picture an actual scene for this song... Still, it's an amazing song, and I'm absolutely addicted to it.
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@eobaltr It must be your fault then. For over two weeks now, I have been waking up in the morning with this running through my mind. And I don't even have a player. I only heard it once last month here on YouTube. I now have in a playlist on my channel. But I can't get it out of my head!!
FINALLY I FOUND THIS AGAIN. A few months ago I was looking for the "Ten Minutes Ago I Saw You" and ran across this. I completely forgot what it was called or who had composed it and it has been irritating me immensely!
I have just started listening to classical music and i stumbled on Prokofiev.. and i'm already in love. He explained Cinderellas story through this song faster than the actual movie. haha
@Zajerad: It is because Prokofiev is the father of the modern film score. Listen to John Williams and James Horner and you will hear a significant amount of influence from Prokofiev.
@Zajerad I was just thinking that!! There 's a Tim Burton sort of dementic feeling about the dance music--I can see helena bonham carter as one of the ballerinas twirling around with Dracula. Wonder what Prokofieve was thinking--well, for starters his friends (and ex wive) were all being sent to gulags under Stalin....hence the dark quality here. Tim Burton couldn't have survived what Prokofiev went through.
A genius composer who defects to the West after a brutal national revolution, marries, raises a family and lives in the West only to find disappointment and struggle, moves back to the Soviet Union before the purges and World War II. A pawn used in the Cold War which sees his wife exiled, and ultimately is betrayed by the very system that once championed him. Dies in poverty on the very same day as Stalin. - Hollywood could't think this stuff up even if they tried.
@marcparella Now that the Soviet Union has disappeared and Capitalism restored, Russia has not produced any composers of the leval of Shostakovic, Prokofiev, Khatchaturia, Gliere and so many others. The best musicians from Russia have abandoned Russia. It is sad that even the best orchestras in Russia do not rise to the level of Venezuelan Youth Orchestras. Russia has descended into a cultural abyss.
@padredemishijos12: no i am not going to buy the argument that communism is the answer to our artistic void. Poland failed to produce a major composer until Penderecki who spent most of his life in the West. Yes there is an argument that oppression brings out the creative energies of an individual. But individuals can create their own hell. Look at what the US produced with some of the greatest symphony orchestras and composers. Prokofiev's life is a fantastic story worth telling.
@marcparella You are wrong in regard to Penderecki. He was educated in Communist Poland and his most important works were in Communist Poland such as the Passion of St. Luke and commissioned work of Solidarity. Where are all the new Russian composers from capitalist Russia? Socialist Venezuela is producing some really great musicians like Gustavo Dudamel and Edicson Ruis. Socialist Venezuela is producing much better orchestras than capitalist Russia. Check your facts.
@padredemishijos12: Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Boston Symphony, The New York Philharmonic, The London Symphony, The Berlin Philharmonic... I rest my case. Communism is poison and Prokofiev late in life acknowledged that Socialism was a failure. His great works were indeed written in the West where he was free to explore the artist he was.... He died in abject poverty. Is that your answer to human suffering... Communism and authoritarian regimes?
@marcparella The orchestras that you mention half come from Communist countries from Eastern Europe. Shostakovich was a true believer, and he led a very comfortable life. The USA is now poised for a lot of suffering due to finance plunder of our economy. Now the bankers get even more tax beaks plus government handouts to go invest overseas. I hope that you don't lose your job.
@padredemishijos12: Why don't you go to back to one of these "wonderful" socialistic countries where you can have your email censored and find yourself in a labor prison when you don't conform to "their" standards. I don't see anyone in the US trying to defect to Cuba or North Korea. Remember what your "wonderful" Soviet Union did to Prokofiev's wife and the 5 million Soviet Citizens murdered in the purges. Shostakovich was at odds with the Union of Composers and had been denounced twice.
@windstorm1000 No Russian emigre flourished in the US. Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky had to perform, give music lessons and teach to earn money to live.Shostakovich and Prokofiev were paid to compose, and lived well by Soviet standardsRemember how many intellectuals in the US lost their jobs and were blacklisted for having Communist sympathies. Capitalist Russia has not been able to replicated the cultural genius that Soviet Russia did Look what Socialist Venezuela is doing with classical music.
@padredemishijos12 Whose payroll are you working for? When we think what Shost. & Prokofiev COULD have done under a freer gov.'t it makes one cry--not to mention the intense suffering their emotional/artistic lives went under thru in those horrific Stalin years--when you didn't know that the knock at the door would mean "Siberia". No, the comforts given did not offset the horrors also given. S & P lived in gilded cages. Its so sad--yet they still composed. The human spirit somehow triumphs.
@windstorm1000 I would say that the Russian emigree in the USA did not do as well as Shostakivich and Prokofiev. It istrue that both lived in adverse conditions imposed from within and from the outside. Despite Stalin, the Russian Revolution had its own energy. Just like the French Revoluion inspite of Napoleon, Beethoven was inspired by it as well. I am certain that your pea brain cannot comprehend these concepts.
@AndrewDewittBaker The only full rcording of Cinderella that I know of is by André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra-you'll find at least three versions of it on iTunes. The 2009 remaster is the best audio wise, and it's the first one you'll see
@AndrewDewittBaker You can buy it at Amazon. There are two or three versions. I bought the one by Ashkenazy (used, the new one is too expensive) and it is wonderful!
@matthewsagency You know what they say--imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Elfman could be doing scores like those from "Beach Blanket Bingo"--Prokofiev is a good role model.
i looove this. the entire ballet has this lovely dark undertone to it... i'm the autumn fairy in my studio's production of this and it's so dark and fiery =D
You are right about it being creepy. Remember he was a revolutionary both in politics and music. Cinderella is essentially about venal love among two unequal people. The question in mind is in whose point of view is the waltz from? Who feels creepy and why.
@alejoeisabel That's very interesting. I always thought it was about the frailty and Havishamesque rotting-underneathness of spectacularly focusing all energies, natural, emotional, and supernatural, into one evening, solely to misrepresent one's self and escape from the calamity of succumbing with age to the ugliness and stupefication of manual servant labor. But i see your interpretation too.
This waltz is dark! I love because it, i immagine a super dark baroque scene with all old and young man and women dancing with their dark ultra ornamented dresses in a dark palace! and the poor cinderella with the prince, all super Beardsley! <3
@AbbilAndreea Intresting that you mentioned that it was dark, because that is how I feel about this piece, I mean there is so much emotion about the song, its not your ordinary happy waltz song of Cinderella, I mean in the beginging when it first comes on there is somthing strange and mystrouse about the song and in a way dark!!!, so I love this piece of music. to me it is kind of saying, hear is a bunch of people dancing who are snobs and kind of look evil and hear is cinderella coming in.
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Nobodyknowsme021 1 month ago
sounds a bit like my sister after she's woken up.........
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dear Mr Prokofiev you made music that touches my heart and soul
TheBallet1 1 month ago 7
Omg...its just taking me to the another world... just closed my eyes and i saw myself in my dreams with a prince. And seriously people talking about disco song?? Im gonna laugh at them!
ClaudiaCountess 1 month ago
I think it really suits the sinister undertone. Because when you think about it, this is Cinderella's scene of deception.
g1amgirl 2 months ago 4
@g1amgirl Deception?
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My choices:
Adagio in G Minor (Albinoni)
Four Seasons - Winter (Vivaldi)
Symphony No. 3 ( Brahms)
Sarabande (Handel)
Canon in D (Pachelbel)
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LifetimeLoner 2 months ago
i like this one, this one is based on Perrault´s version, instead of the Grimm Borthers version of the hisrtory and of course, the Disneys version
TheAmazingFCoakroach 2 months ago
I saw Cinderella last night, in Paris ! It was like a dream.
AlienNoirePomme 2 months ago 4
The man is crazy and we love him!
Phersephoie 2 months ago 5
Sounds like it could be part of Batman theme music.
cellofingers 2 months ago 3
I can see why some of you consider this creepy, but the musical tension is so exciting! Without all the crazy notes and stuff, it'd just be another princessy waltz. And I don't know about you but dang, I'm sick of those. This waltz is pure AWESOMENESS. Prokofiev's the shiz
ShadyNightCrow 3 months ago 7
290,000th view...finally, something that even...the music is great 2
thephilosophylover 3 months ago
too beautiful.
blahblahblahtape 3 months ago 2
Is there a piano version of this?
sakura101avalon 3 months ago
this is more like a vampire cinderella
888artan888 3 months ago
MASQUERADE BALL MUSIC 8D
ngohpx 3 months ago
could you tell me what recording this is? I only like this one and I can't find it anywhere.
heidilady72 3 months ago
@heidilady72 It's by the Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra, you might be able to find it on ITunes, I guess.
Tuck213 3 months ago in playlist Prokofiev
3 stupids xbox fanboys here
xcause 3 months ago
Pure genius.
zgirlowner 3 months ago
Maybe this is a perspective of Cinderella's sisters as they glare jealously towards her during her waltz? Probably thinking something along that lines of: "Who is that girl?! I wish she'd DIE! >:( "
Sanriko 3 months ago in playlist Favorite Classical/Instrumental
Homicide Waltz! Beautiful in it's own little Dark Way!!! MUSIC!!!
thephilosophylover 3 months ago
i went to a ocrastraw today for a field trip and they played this song,and many other songs
MirandaGarza00 4 months ago
Hi everyone, I'm 7 years old. I listen to classical music a lot! I have also composed 5 symphonies and 3 piano concertos (I'd tell you to check out my account to hear them, but they're on my brother's account.) I even play for the New York Philharmonic. Come see me play sometime--I stand out in the orchestra easily!
takgosky 4 months ago
@takgosky wow, already 8 years old? Last time I had the good fortune to attend one of your performances, you were still four years old and were still composing your second symphony... Great job kid!
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musoderelict 3 months ago
@takgosky On your brothers account? So we can't hear them? What a shame. Perhaps though in 20 years you become as well known as Sergei, then we'll all know you anyway. Good luck, and I hope you grow up.
musoderelict 3 months ago
@takgosky Hey,Wolfgang! It's me, Salieri...
Bunnypunker 3 months ago 3
Out of all the orchastral music ive heard (only three yrs.)
this is my favorite
im 13 on my sisters account
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If this is happy, I'd hate to see scary.
101rocketmail 4 months ago 9
@101rocketmail Me too.
btrnigahigaphan3 9 hours ago
There is a lot of tension in this waltz. Reading that it was written during WW II makes this more understandable. I wish some of this tension was dissipated during the climax if there is one.
drjohnflannery 4 months ago 3
someones been lighting a joint in between dances
shooternate00193 4 months ago
great !! thank you J.
jeyvr 4 months ago
Prokofiev was a really weird person...
GreekClassicalMusic 5 months ago 4
reminds me of masquerade ball in the Phantom of the Opera....
SamAndDeansGirl 5 months ago in playlist classical music
We did this in ballet... and I was a stepsister :D
SophieClairess 5 months ago
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Really? We did that too in summer <3 My best friend was a stepsister... I was Cinderella haha... it was really fun... :D :D :D <3
ballarinoula95 4 months ago
Is that the scene where Cinderella dances with Hannibal Lecter?
DrGull1888 5 months ago 10
I thought CInderella is dreamy!!!!Ｉ am wrong, and DISNEY is wrong too not using this in the cinderella cartoon!!!!!
MelodyLeilaFu 5 months ago
Sounds like she's coming drunk and stoned after a very harsh party where her boyfriend left her... so badass :D
DuhuKaralius 5 months ago
This is one of the best waltzes EVER composed...
Pianista061292 5 months ago 12
Creepy...
GreekClassicalMusic 6 months ago
This kind of made me think of this huge ball with thousands of men and women in gorgeous clothing and diamond mask who all whirled around the room with knives in their hands that flashed in the candlelight.
WritingGirl24 6 months ago 96
@WritingGirl24 OMG that's what I was thinking. I know It kinda of makes you think of that. For some reason...
skullsroll64 6 months ago
@WritingGirl24 Yes! I had a damn near similar image in mind, except instead of masks, I envisioned the people with expressionless eyes but huge grins on their faces. Prokofiev is the Tim Burton of music; creepy and cheerful is a hard combination to nail with this kind of success.
RAINBOWHORSES 4 months ago 7
@WritingGirl24 A great comment - so true! If I didn't love this music already I would have certainly been drawn to it by what you said.
musoderelict 3 months ago
@musoderelict Thank you very much!
WritingGirl24 3 months ago
@WritingGirl24 I thought it was music from the Adams family movie ;)
chapa6sigma 3 months ago
@WritingGirl24 very Addams Family!
bisforbalance 1 month ago in playlist Relax
妖しくてうっとり。
swatidebby 7 months ago
@swatidebby Indeed misterious!
MrFlorinmoisa 6 months ago
Lovely
JamesFuckingOwen 8 months ago
ahhh i adore this
ghassemTHEpossem 8 months ago
What an awesome, grandiose fiend Prokofiev was.
hymnofashes 8 months ago 3
this is very special. Never heard anything like this. Sounds both beautiful and scary.
Strimlarn87 8 months ago 8
Love it; so much better than Sleeping Beauty's Waltz
jilly4785 9 months ago
so whimsical. I love this piece!
9OH4loridaChico 9 months ago
Was Cinderella murdered during her dance when I wasn't paying attention?
OrionoftheStar 9 months ago 208
@OrionoftheStar lmfaoooooo
ghassemTHEpossem 8 months ago
@OrionoftheStar have u read the Grimm version of Cinderella? I think this music goes with it nicely lol. That stepmother is insane
RebelFanzel 6 months ago 3
@OrionoftheStar It has its moments of happiness. XD But no, it was written during WWII, which I think would explain at least some of its macabre-ness.
SilverInsanity 5 months ago
very Adams Family ;D
claddagh1981 9 months ago 4
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TheOcchialini 10 months ago
oi
hi i love this song!
TheOcchialini 10 months ago
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TheOcchialini 10 months ago
Intense. Just gorgeous.
AnishProductions 10 months ago 4
the version that is playing in this song
cmcmovieman 10 months ago
I am trying to find this version - what is this version?
jzbich 10 months ago
I don't think this waltz is creepy. It's grand and in a way magic.
Kyuutai 10 months ago 4
I agree with klausmann111!
Different and intriguin waltz!!
Supermabelina 11 months ago
I see no reason why this is creepy for some people.
It's Russian. It has to be dark, secretly and leave you speechless.
MrKugelis 11 months ago 6
I used another section of the score for a little ballet I just did: "A Haunting Waltz." You can see it here on youtube.com. I love Prokofiev's quirky score.
ploplisphilin 11 months ago
Why does this creep people out? Think of the time and the region, the music makes sense.
JoeAuriun 11 months ago
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Hi, I like your comment. Can you share a little bit more about the time and region?
Thanks!!!
harriethtw 10 months ago
It's so haunting it sends shivers up my spine everytime I hear it. It reminds me of that scene in Van Helsing when the Vampires are at that Ball.
MrThatmanoverthere 11 months ago
Dark Soundtrack
82skel 11 months ago
brillant,yes is a dark waltz,only worth from the mind of a genius as prokofiev was!!!!
klausmann111 11 months ago
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erickdircks 11 months ago
Can you imagine Prokofiev writing this enchanting music while many of his artistic friends (and ex wife)were being sent to gulags?? I can't even imagine what he was thinking, the pressure he was under. Under such terrible circumstances creative beauty can some how grow--like this. But you cannot blame Prokofiev if this Cinderella is darker than say ala Tchaivkovsky--he was, as i said, living under a state of terror (Stalin)--it cannot help but seep into even light music.
windstorm1000 1 year ago 3
For me, this song is very dark, but also extremely exciting. I picture a masquerade ball with everyone wearing black and dancing in a candlelit ballroom, but its also very easy to picture an actual scene for this song... Still, it's an amazing song, and I'm absolutely addicted to it.
xxmizzmelodyxx 1 year ago
The joy of great dance, music and story combine in Ashton’s Cinderella, a fairytale rooted in a magical brilliance and great charm. Everything comes together for a perfect Easter treat with The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House.
RoyalOperaHouse 1 year ago
This year I was dancing a cinderella in this ballet and every day on rehearsals I had heard this marvellous music... I was really happy about that:D
atnaloj626 1 year ago
my favorite is midnight! oooooh i get chills!
blondbergers 1 year ago
every morning i listen this then i start good day
eobaltr 1 year ago 5
@eobaltr It must be your fault then. For over two weeks now, I have been waking up in the morning with this running through my mind. And I don't even have a player. I only heard it once last month here on YouTube. I now have in a playlist on my channel. But I can't get it out of my head!!
runupahill1 1 year ago
creepu fun house
talltrini82 1 year ago
FINALLY I FOUND THIS AGAIN. A few months ago I was looking for the "Ten Minutes Ago I Saw You" and ran across this. I completely forgot what it was called or who had composed it and it has been irritating me immensely!
spacexbutterfly 1 year ago
I have just started listening to classical music and i stumbled on Prokofiev.. and i'm already in love. He explained Cinderellas story through this song faster than the actual movie. haha
JenIsSoCool 1 year ago 2
One of my favorite pieces of all time.
Vorticose 1 year ago 2
Genius!
Dragomini 1 year ago
I did this in a ballet competition it is stunning !
PrincessEmeraldNoo 1 year ago
Sounds like something Tim Burton would use for one of his movies. =)
Zajerad 1 year ago 6
@Zajerad: It is because Prokofiev is the father of the modern film score. Listen to John Williams and James Horner and you will hear a significant amount of influence from Prokofiev.
marcparella 1 year ago 6
@Zajerad I was just thinking that!! There 's a Tim Burton sort of dementic feeling about the dance music--I can see helena bonham carter as one of the ballerinas twirling around with Dracula. Wonder what Prokofieve was thinking--well, for starters his friends (and ex wive) were all being sent to gulags under Stalin....hence the dark quality here. Tim Burton couldn't have survived what Prokofiev went through.
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Composerwizard 1 year ago
it sounds so dark and wicked, but beautiful @ the same time
GENIUS!
rose7art 1 year ago
A genius composer who defects to the West after a brutal national revolution, marries, raises a family and lives in the West only to find disappointment and struggle, moves back to the Soviet Union before the purges and World War II. A pawn used in the Cold War which sees his wife exiled, and ultimately is betrayed by the very system that once championed him. Dies in poverty on the very same day as Stalin. - Hollywood could't think this stuff up even if they tried.
marcparella 1 year ago
@marcparella Now that the Soviet Union has disappeared and Capitalism restored, Russia has not produced any composers of the leval of Shostakovic, Prokofiev, Khatchaturia, Gliere and so many others. The best musicians from Russia have abandoned Russia. It is sad that even the best orchestras in Russia do not rise to the level of Venezuelan Youth Orchestras. Russia has descended into a cultural abyss.
padredemishijos12 1 year ago
@padredemishijos12: no i am not going to buy the argument that communism is the answer to our artistic void. Poland failed to produce a major composer until Penderecki who spent most of his life in the West. Yes there is an argument that oppression brings out the creative energies of an individual. But individuals can create their own hell. Look at what the US produced with some of the greatest symphony orchestras and composers. Prokofiev's life is a fantastic story worth telling.
marcparella 1 year ago
@marcparella You are wrong in regard to Penderecki. He was educated in Communist Poland and his most important works were in Communist Poland such as the Passion of St. Luke and commissioned work of Solidarity. Where are all the new Russian composers from capitalist Russia? Socialist Venezuela is producing some really great musicians like Gustavo Dudamel and Edicson Ruis. Socialist Venezuela is producing much better orchestras than capitalist Russia. Check your facts.
padredemishijos12 1 year ago
@padredemishijos12: Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Boston Symphony, The New York Philharmonic, The London Symphony, The Berlin Philharmonic... I rest my case. Communism is poison and Prokofiev late in life acknowledged that Socialism was a failure. His great works were indeed written in the West where he was free to explore the artist he was.... He died in abject poverty. Is that your answer to human suffering... Communism and authoritarian regimes?
marcparella 1 year ago
@marcparella The orchestras that you mention half come from Communist countries from Eastern Europe. Shostakovich was a true believer, and he led a very comfortable life. The USA is now poised for a lot of suffering due to finance plunder of our economy. Now the bankers get even more tax beaks plus government handouts to go invest overseas. I hope that you don't lose your job.
padredemishijos12 1 year ago
@padredemishijos12: Why don't you go to back to one of these "wonderful" socialistic countries where you can have your email censored and find yourself in a labor prison when you don't conform to "their" standards. I don't see anyone in the US trying to defect to Cuba or North Korea. Remember what your "wonderful" Soviet Union did to Prokofiev's wife and the 5 million Soviet Citizens murdered in the purges. Shostakovich was at odds with the Union of Composers and had been denounced twice.
marcparella 1 year ago
@marcparella Biggest mistake he made was coming back to USSR---they ate him alive.
windstorm1000 1 year ago
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your brains are eaten by worms. That's for sure.
dicthash 11 months ago
@windstorm1000 No Russian emigre flourished in the US. Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky had to perform, give music lessons and teach to earn money to live.Shostakovich and Prokofiev were paid to compose, and lived well by Soviet standardsRemember how many intellectuals in the US lost their jobs and were blacklisted for having Communist sympathies. Capitalist Russia has not been able to replicated the cultural genius that Soviet Russia did Look what Socialist Venezuela is doing with classical music.
padredemishijos12 8 months ago
@padredemishijos12 Whose payroll are you working for? When we think what Shost. & Prokofiev COULD have done under a freer gov.'t it makes one cry--not to mention the intense suffering their emotional/artistic lives went under thru in those horrific Stalin years--when you didn't know that the knock at the door would mean "Siberia". No, the comforts given did not offset the horrors also given. S & P lived in gilded cages. Its so sad--yet they still composed. The human spirit somehow triumphs.
windstorm1000 8 months ago
@windstorm1000 I would say that the Russian emigree in the USA did not do as well as Shostakivich and Prokofiev. It istrue that both lived in adverse conditions imposed from within and from the outside. Despite Stalin, the Russian Revolution had its own energy. Just like the French Revoluion inspite of Napoleon, Beethoven was inspired by it as well. I am certain that your pea brain cannot comprehend these concepts.
padredemishijos12 8 months ago 9
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musoderelict 3 months ago
OMG!!! so dark...so creppy...so great!!! it's like a calm madness!!!
soberanis100 1 year ago
music from a Genius !
mummiusagrippa 1 year ago
I don't get it, does he think he's Cinderella?
ink245711 1 year ago
one of the most sublime waltzes ever....maybe THE most sublime?
fabiesque 1 year ago
@fabiesque
Maybe not the most sublime (Waltz of the Flowers by Tchaikovsky sounds more sublime to me), but this waltz is very very exciting and splendorous!
Composerwizard 1 year ago
Prokofiev, why are you so talented? Always does my favourite ballet scores...
pennydesouza 1 year ago
more like a waltz for the corpse bride, but i love this
eatmoregrapes 1 year ago 4
Where can I buy or download the entire ballet?
AndrewDewittBaker 1 year ago
@AndrewDewittBaker The only full rcording of Cinderella that I know of is by André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra-you'll find at least three versions of it on iTunes. The 2009 remaster is the best audio wise, and it's the first one you'll see
Zolyushka95 1 year ago
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Composerwizard 1 year ago
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Composerwizard 1 year ago
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@AndrewDewittBaker You can buy it at Amazon. There are two or three versions. I bought the one by Ashkenazy (used, the new one is too expensive) and it is wonderful!
Composerwizard 1 year ago
the song takes you through cinderella's emotions
at the begining its quite mysterious, as is the young cinderalla
then it turns into how she must feel, confused, aware time is againt her, before eventually giving us joy
quite amazing
Eddyvanjones 1 year ago 5
awesomee
FiswaT 1 year ago
Love that part at 2:13 as it gets more and more anxious/frenetic.
Flutist11 1 year ago
Danny Elfman is nothing but a prokofiev wannabe
matthewsagency 1 year ago 5
@matthewsagency
hey hey now...
no dissin on mr. elfman >:/
Haruko95 1 year ago
@matthewsagency Prokofiev is a wonderful man, but both him and danny Elfman they do have there good quilitys!!!.
Hattaru 1 year ago
@matthewsagency You know what they say--imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Elfman could be doing scores like those from "Beach Blanket Bingo"--Prokofiev is a good role model.
windstorm1000 1 year ago
I actually heard a piano transcription from Volodos before I heard this, but this sounds even more wicked and dark.
Temptezt 1 year ago
happily insane.
Flutist11 1 year ago
reminds me of the khatchaturian waltz from the masquerade, but not as compelling.
alleluiacone26 1 year ago
you can totally pick out the part where cinderella does or would do a manege with piques at the end.
perfectlystellar 2 years ago
Ooh, I just want to choreograph a dance to this. *starry-eyed*
Alicornia 2 years ago 2
i looove this. the entire ballet has this lovely dark undertone to it... i'm the autumn fairy in my studio's production of this and it's so dark and fiery =D
madteacups 2 years ago 3
sounds like merry-go-round music.
bwanna23 2 years ago
So dark I loved it from the opening notes...
savvas74 2 years ago 39
Yeeees, I have loved it since I first heard it when I was 15 years old. So creepy and haunting.
Olivebride 2 years ago
im 13 and i love this! :O :L
LucyPantsno1 2 years ago 4
@LucyPantsno1 Haha, I'm 14 and I love it! Im a huge nerd and have my wedding all planned out, and this is on my music playlist :)
SamNKati42 1 year ago 7
Finally, FINALLY!!!!
I found it!!
dameronWolf 2 years ago 5
sounds more sarcastic than creepy to me :D
teccomin 2 years ago
YES!!! I have been looking for this full song everywhere THANK YOU!! !
Sarahteehee3 2 years ago 3
Gosh, I know that feeling.
BarbaraPloyer333 2 years ago
You are right about it being creepy. Remember he was a revolutionary both in politics and music. Cinderella is essentially about venal love among two unequal people. The question in mind is in whose point of view is the waltz from? Who feels creepy and why.
alejoeisabel 2 years ago 15
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your analysis doesn't match the music; Cinderella isn't waltzing with the prince here, she's at home preparing to leave for the ball
nice try. nice fail.
you may take your misguided psychojargon and move along now
dismissed!
buh-bye!
WafffleHouse 2 years ago
@alejoeisabel That's very interesting. I always thought it was about the frailty and Havishamesque rotting-underneathness of spectacularly focusing all energies, natural, emotional, and supernatural, into one evening, solely to misrepresent one's self and escape from the calamity of succumbing with age to the ugliness and stupefication of manual servant labor. But i see your interpretation too.
hymnofashes 8 months ago 2
@hymnofashes
It frightens me to say that I truly understood that comment. Or at least I think I did.
catinthecradle1 7 months ago
Sounds a bit like something Nino Rota would do. I wonder if he was influenced by Prokofiev in any way...does anyone know?
johnthedarkwingduck 2 years ago
Its Sounds like a Tim Burton's movies soundtracks... Danny Elfman maybe...
Bravo, Prokofiev!!!!
APiazzolla 2 years ago
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Haha i know right!!
XallyX941 2 years ago
@APiazzolla Don't you mean Elfman and Burton's movies sound like Prokofiev? :P
masael255 2 years ago 3
Oh, please... Forgive me. Yes, I mean Elfman sounds like Prokofiev sometimes... Sorry, I hope that this people can forgive me.
APiazzolla 2 years ago 3
@APiazzolla No you are right. But Elfman didn't go through the horrors Prokofiev did--hence the dark colors that are in the latter's music as well
windstorm1000 1 year ago
Sergei got it exactly right; Cinderella's dance should be creepy.
hardtfelt 2 years ago 59
@hardtfelt but in a way why would it be creapy?
Hattaru 10 months ago
Thank you for posting! Lovely song.
LittleGigiK 2 years ago 2
This waltz is dark! I love because it, i immagine a super dark baroque scene with all old and young man and women dancing with their dark ultra ornamented dresses in a dark palace! and the poor cinderella with the prince, all super Beardsley! <3
AbbilAndreea 2 years ago 85
ye indeed:)
24Hermes 2 years ago
@AbbilAndreea That is the same thing I was thinking the song is dark and kind of creepy and just really beautiful!!!.
Hattaru 1 year ago
@AbbilAndreea Intresting that you mentioned that it was dark, because that is how I feel about this piece, I mean there is so much emotion about the song, its not your ordinary happy waltz song of Cinderella, I mean in the beginging when it first comes on there is somthing strange and mystrouse about the song and in a way dark!!!, so I love this piece of music. to me it is kind of saying, hear is a bunch of people dancing who are snobs and kind of look evil and hear is cinderella coming in.
Hattaru 10 months ago
I like it but I must say Im a bigger fan of the Sleeping Beauty Waltz n Ballet
CubicalGirl 2 years ago 3
This is one of the most entrancing pieces i've had the pleasure to listen to.
Jacada123 2 years ago 6
ohhh el vals suena muy bien
remi1910 2 years ago
Wow!, this song beats everything I've heard so far
big thanks for posting
Zyborg2008 2 years ago
Amazing, truly
You have to listen to his pianoconcerto's two and three, the most haunting and dazzling music expeience I've ever heard!!!
simbanobel 2 years ago 2