Prokofiev plays March from The Love for Three Oranges

[justlooseit8567]

Last time I checked, this was Prokofiev we're listening to, not Brahms, Williams or anyone else. Appreciate the beautiful music people, stick to the topic.

[pepermint60]

this puts my mood in a very march like, he realy knows how to name his songs!=)

[rauljess]

Star Wars



[Shostakovichforever]

i've always love this opera and particularry this march...

[MrMrmike5]

Williams made this sound alot better.

[jaykay2003]

@MrMrmike5

Williams? John Williams? Come on.... Williams is nothing but a plagiarist. Without Prokofiev he would be nothing.....

[MrMrmike5]

@jaykay2003 Yet, Williams is an American icon, actually a world icon...Either good guys finish last or John Williams is a musical genius. cant condemn a composer for his work sounding like other people work, he drew on musical themes of the past to create a new style of music

[1AdrianR]

@MrMrmike5 He only 'emulated' Wagner, he didn't create a new style or innovate.

[MrMrmike5]

@1AdrianR I disagree. He took Wagner's liefmotifs and expanded it 10x. Just look at the score for Star Wars; how Williams would not only take melodies and play them but mold them into a suite of simultaneous emotions and themes. In fact, Star Wars can be considered one of the greatest operas of the latter half of the 20th century.

[1AdrianR]

@MrMrmike5 Good God. One of the greatest operas of the latter half of the 20th century? He did take Wagner's motifs, but was unable to transform and develop them in different guises to the same affect as Wagner. A famous, and popular, example: Tristan und Isolde. Analyse the score and you will discover that four note motif in continual development as the characters develop. Wagner's orchestra and music is the ideal spectator, commenting and prophesying through the development of the leitmotifs.

[MrMrmike5]

@1AdrianR Wait a second. I'm just establishing the legitimacy of William's musical ability as some people just find Williams to be void of any kind of musical ability or style. And besides, I think whereas Wagner attaches a particular motif to a particular character, I find that William's motifs reflect on the emotional status of the character. You can find, when listening to Anakin's theme in Ep. 1, how innocent the theme is yet subtle with foreboding overtones of the future.

[1AdrianR]

This is something which of course Williams tried to emulate. However, Star Wars is not an opera. If anything, it is a symphonic poem, or incidental music.

[MrMrmike5]

@1AdrianR I know the term 'Space Opera' isn't in relation to any kind of music; however, with Star Wars, theres a considerable exception.

[teasingmeification]

@jaykay2003 What the hell are you talking about? There are no melodic similarities whatsoever in the theme. Parade of the Ewoks has very similar rhythms going through it. However, it's not plagarism it's much the same as rock stars who 'steal' the 12 bar blues. I can't stand ponces.

[GGbreizh]

@jaykay2003 Have you ever considered that what you said is a non sense ? Brahms is nothing but a plagiarist. Without Beethoven he would be nothing.

[BasileusR]

@GGbreizh Brahms is THE genius. He is in the top 10 of the greatest composers. Listen to his 2nd piano concerto, or to his symphonies, and then we talk.

[BasileusR]

@GGbreizh Search for "Brahms concerto 2 sokolov", and give it a listen, I swear you will change your opinion.

[GGbreizh]

@jaykay2003 I must also add that you don't know much about Williams... Because he was known before as a jazz arranger, conductor and pianist. Later he composed works for the concert hall wich were created by Previn, Slatkin, (the Essay for strings for exemple), and those work are not necesseraly inspired from Prokofiev.

If you listen the Jane Eyre suite (Williams considered Jane Eyre as one of his finest score), he took his inspiration from England and british composers.

[Flutist11]

♫ 'Cuz my name's Sergei ProKOfieeev!! If you don't like me now, I don't care! ♫

I bet if I told him that was the refrain to this song, he would have laughed at me.

[Ypsilon94]

I'm playing this with trumpet. Kind of hard to play, but I love this song.

[tamerlano236]

Diabolic piece??? Stunning music! Very special feeling to hear it in Prokofiev's rendition. Thanks for posting.

[caracoltres]

1930s New York

[Andrespilar1]

levantemos todos la bandera mogólica!!!!

[siegetank55]

is there a longer version of this song??

[Kperson123]

Undoubtedly the most diabolical piece I have ever played.

[tetrisclock]

The opera isn't diabolical, but this march sure sounds that way!

[MusicPredominates]

@Kperson123 : Silly, willy !

[pedroanimb]

revolutionary music, ...so great Prokofiev

[hartistry]

Это очень приятно. Мне нравится этот кусок, и композитор, очень много.

С уважением, Дэвид Харт, американский пианист / Композитор

[bazonce911]

NICE!!!!!!!!!!

[tetrisclock]

This is great! Another great version is of Jascha Heifetz playin this on violin.

[kempff95]

AMAZING!!

[vlotjah]

Rhytmicly it is limping, but I'm sure that's tha inaccuracy of the duo-art-system. I'm sure he didn't play it accactly this way. I have a record of P. playing at a duo-art roll as well, and it has the same irregularity in rhytm and dynamic. You have to try and listen through that. Then you still hear a great pianist. Such a shame there are no live-recordings of him. Or are there?

[dandelion1967]

Well, Prokofiev made little bit of recordings, including the thirrd concerto

[vlotjah]

Thank you!

The searching starts now....

[Pischnaholic]

Great SOUND quality!

Rubinstein played this often as an encore, and HE really played with a panache that's missing here.

Even so, unlike Prokofiev's recording of his Toccata, this is excellent playing.

[Jesslyncool]

i <3 this song

[trexlakes]

@Jesslyncool I agree this song is awesome!

[fdlbeats]

LEGENDARY!

[xanfus]

yo yo ma does a great version of this song! it's actually how i became acquainted with the melody in the first place!

[PiePirate1]

All of his recordings make his music so much more haunting.

[almanacofsleep]

Also listen to the soundtrack to Akira Kurosawa's film Seven Samurai, I wish i could remember the composers name, but its does sound a lot like star wars theme, take into consideration that George Lucas is very influcenced by Kurosawa and cites him as an influence and i wonder if Williams too was influenced by Kurosawa's films

[SynysterGates93]

John Williams steals alot. Listen to "Jaws" and then listen to New World Symphony Finale by Dvorak. Almost exactly the same.

[MrMrmike5]

@SynysterGates93 Well its hard to be original when you have 500 years of other musicians playing classical music and inventing something new in that genre!

[Arobinek]

Great!

[juergen1992]

its one of the exam pieces in the grade 8 syllabus this year =)

[lordking9]

is it? kl

[rosalindmay]

i'm doing this for my grade 8... it's such a fun piece to do!

[ForeverIsis]

Wonderful!

[MillyProductions]

wow! the sound quality is amazing for such an old recording.

[bomberchicken]

it's a piano roll

[MillyProductions]

i hadn't known that until more recently.

[rubiness511]

awesome

[liszty88]

i like to hear from the maestro himself.

[serene06]

Is the name "The love OF three oranges"or "the love FOR three oranges"?I saw it was "FOR" in ABRSM's Grade 8 piano syllabus.

[p0ooo0p]

"boy, that's getting it cheap"  Bukowski

[goldberg72]

e' proprio èrokofiev

[pianolasociety]

great recording!

[SkitoDieClub]

Actually, I prefer it on violin, having first heard it played by Eugene Fodor with the Colorado Symphony Recording in the mid '70's, after the Tchaikovsky competition that he "tied for second" in Russia. Oh please.

If you have copy of Fodor doing the "March for the Love of three Oranges," I would be eterally grateful. Thank you so much, skitodieclub

[BarNuun]

What a beautiful sound, like a perfection.

[joseonuba26]

Es igual a un tema de la Guerra de las Galaxias (Star War), John Williams has hecho plagío?

[sciprio]

Por supuesto que si.

[inksac]

Isn't this great?

[Wuayker]

jesus christ... this is amaizing!

[sisisioao]

Great piece of work and art.

[ArturoAlejandroS]

I imagine the bolsheviks and communist in the streets of Petrograd or Leningrad or Moscu duringf the russian revolution, Lenin speaking to people, Stalin's red guards, propaganda or things like also, but with the sarcasm or parody,unmistakable of Prokofiev.

Very good, is a piece that I like since the first time I heard.

[nemesida7]

((((

[Emacs23]

You are brainwashed too much, it's all propaganda. There were so much executions as anglosuckson propaganda tells. Mostly NKVD arrested engineers in order to send them to strategic objects. These things were very useful while our war with Hitler.

[marykmusic]

I have heard and lovd this since I was a rather small child. But then, I grew up in a household that played classical and jazz music, and discussed poetry and current events at the dinner table. (And I'm 56 years old, so when I say "jazz", it's the swing era and before.)

[marcparella]

I love it. I get it. I understand it. Life is good. Thanks Sergei.

[Ultrabrut1]

You hate this great work of classical music, emmabequm, because you are a stupid, knuckle-dragging boor.

[kittyx93]

lmao

[aldebussy]

First of all, you ignorant moron: this is not a song since NOBODY's singing.

Secondly, R&B is pure junk and you are so uncivilized that you're still stuck in the context 'coolness'. OMG! Why am I even arguing with somebody who's already confessed he's keep out of our premises because he's too stupid to comprehend one of the most comprehensible pieces of the 29th century.

[aldebussy]

oops! I meant 20th century and that should be 'he'd'.

[sisisioao]

You are too cool for intelligent people. O.k, bye.

[Stratman549]

do u even know what r&b stands for?

[gspaulsson]

So you don't get classical music. Your loss. Saying you prefer r&b to Prokofieff is like saying you like candy bars better than Lobster Thermidor and comic books better than Shakespeare. I like candy bars, comic books and r&b too, but I don't mistake them for the real thing.

[argentinedogo]

i like the ewok comparison. But then again WIlliams could have chosen that Key within no similiarity since theres millions of songs in this key

[acr08807]

Good point, but it was Prokofiev who was inspired by the Ewoks theme, not the other way around. On the whole, I prefer Williams' original, since it's much easier to play on the kazoo.

[pljms]

The level of ignorance displayed on YouTube beggars belief. Considering that Prokofiev died in 1953 he was in no position to be 'inspired' by a theme written decades after his death. Fool.

[gnamp]

now there's irony for you. It was a joke.

[Biscuitneilston]

Is this a joke?

[Timrath]

LOL, funny how nobody got your joke. :-D

[acr08807]

Yeah, the level of ignorance displayed on YouTube beggars belief.

[Pischnaholic]

Dear, acr08807,

AMEN!

[vocalpianist]

hahaha

I'm so sorry that people didn't understand this. Just so you know- it was very much appreciated haha

[darkandunatural]

anyone else here believes that John Williams was inspired by this when he wrote parade of the Ewoks.

[jivjago]

Wow, now that you mention it, it does!

[Ostendere]

It's a roll recording, which means it's not very authentic. Rolls can't correctly capture tempo or dynamics, and expression is quite limited. There's a few genuine recordings out there of Prokofiev that are of much more worth if you're looking to study his musicianship- mostly of Chopin and himself (particularly his own 1st Piano Concerto).

[mysticmansion555]

la marche ! I played that with my orchestra.

how fun ! I love l'amour des trois oranges

[pd106593]

we played this for our midle school band

[sketchphonics]

Theoshow2- I don't think this is even a genuine Prokofiev recording. Where did you come by this? I've never heard a player piano recording so well done, and I don't think Prokofiev would have bothered with them when they had audio. Not to mention, the tempo on these things is impossible to re-create.

[AnIcyTruth]

I'm not sure. Whomever the original pianist was, he/she is/was extremely good. And the tempo isn't that unrealistic. Are you saying it's too fast on the rolls?

Either way, it was fun listening to this. :)

[pianojerome]

Sounds like a CD "Masters of the Piano Roll: Prokofiev plays Prokofiev" (Dal Segno)

"This collection, which originates from Australian musicologist Denis Condon, is historically important... four great piano roll manufacturers: Welte Mignon.. Ampico.. Duo-Art.. and Triphonola.. The recordings in this album were made by a device with felt covered aluminum 'fingers' which can read the paper rolls and when attached to any modern day piano, can reproduce the music from the original recording."

[woolyfsh]

Prokofiev is my all-time favourite composer. Thank you for posting this!

[sviatoslavberezovsky]

my favourite piece :)

[shela2]

I like Prokofiev,s style. He,s for my favs.

[IloveAlexisBledel689]

wow is that really Prokofiev??? so beautiful!! thanks for posting it.