Name that piece! The game

[listener]

With the racket the chorus in the background is making, I'll suggest one of the IVAN THE TERRIBLE films by Prok., doesn't sound to me like a KING LEAR or HAMLET ending.

[Brian]

It's not Battleship Potemkin is it?

Also, re: the Gothic

that was a very well behaved audience.

Thanks

[Amfortas]

Doesn't sound like Prokofiev or Shostakovich to me, but I could wrong and often have been 

[Brian]

Doesn't sound like Prokofiev or Shostakovich to me, but I could wrong and often have been 

It doesn't, really. But I was assuming the Russian thing was a good clue. Who does that leave? Khachaturian? Doesn't sound like him either. Miaskovsky? I think the main theme slightly more Shostakovish (sorry) than Prokofiendish...

[Amfortas]

It doesn't, really. But I was assuming the Russian thing was a good clue. Who does that leave? Khachaturian? Doesn't sound like him either. Miaskovsky? I think the main theme slightly more Shostakovish (sorry) than Prokofiendish...

Agree it's more like Shostak, but I'm not a Proktologist [sorry  ], though I do love most of what I know

It reminds me a bit of those Russians like Borodin (Polovtsian Dances, for ex)

[Hattoff]

Well done to all, you're all close. The closest is Listener so take it away Listener.

Prokofiev completed four other, practically unknown, film scores during WW2: Tonya, Lermontov, Partisans of the Ukrainian Steppes and Kotovsky. My clip was from the end credits of Kotovsky.

All the films contain some good music, their neglect, considering Prokofiev's popularity, is perverse.

[mszczuj]

My clip was from the end credits of Kotovsky.

In fact it is rather final vision of future battles of hero.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0mTJPsmtMA&feature=related  - last minute

[Hattoff]

Blimey mszczuj, I wasn't expecting that! Great, thanks very much.
Are any other of the films out there?
I have collected all four films from Russia over the years but the youtube Kotovsky is a much better cut than the one I have.
I would like a better cut of Tonya which is probably the only film of the four worth watching for its own sake.

[mszczuj]

Blimey mszczuj, I wasn't expecting that! Great, thanks very much.

I've just find Kotovsky in Wiki, gone to russian version of it, pasted the name in YouTube. Really nothing, half a minute.

To find Lermontov was not so easy but I did it in the same way using more patience:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpJLD0GTqXs

By the way, there are two composers mentioned in the credits of this movie. The other is V. Pushkov (not present in russian Wiki)

To find Partisans of the Ukrainian Steppes (in fact it should be translated Partisans in the Steppes of Ukraine) I went to russian Wiki, found list  of Prokofiev's works,  pasted the russian title and ...
it is not in You tube except of 15 minutes

But there is a link to download the whole movie below.

So I find the site where are some soviet movies and almost all films with music of Prokofiev!

http://film.arjlover.net/info/poruchik.kizhe.avi.html
http://film.arjlover.net/info/aleksandr.nevskij.avi.html
http://film.arjlover.net/info/lermontov.avi.html
http://film.arjlover.net/info/kotovskij.avi.html
http://film.arjlover.net/info/partizany.v.stepjah.ukrainy.avi.html
http://film.arjlover.net/info/ivan.groznyj.1.avi.html
http://film.arjlover.net/info/ivan.groznyj.2.avi.html

The only exception was "Tonia". But I tried again in YouTube. Well, the title of the movie is Our girls - Tonia is only part of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajFsuHNEVY

So here is the last avi:

http://film.arjlover.net/info/boevoj.kinosbornik.nashi.devushki.avi.html

[Hattoff]

mszczuj, you are a genius.

I am as pleased with your finding those films as I am with the Brian, Gothic performance, which is very, very pleased.
The sound quality of Tonia is much better than VHS tape I had so much trouble getting from Russia.

With Lermontov, Prokofiev typically had a row with the director and walked out. Pushkov was brought in to finish the music, he used a rather nice theme of his own and some operetta excerpts.

The other films you found will be useful as well, particulary Lieutenant Kije which was on You Tube but was taken off at the request of Prokofiev's estate.

Thanks again.

[mszczuj]

mszczuj, you are a genius.

No, I just can read russian.

But it is very nice to be useful.

[listener]

New one in preparation, thanks to Amfortas.
It may be tricky as it was published under a pseudonym.

[Amfortas]

Listener's next clip -


http://www.4shared.com/audio/XVeoBgtC/listenersmystery.html

[Brian]

Listener's next clip -


http://www.4shared.com/audio/XVeoBgtC/listenersmystery.html

I'm gonna guess the pianist is Dick Hyman.

Or the composer, if the composer is William Bolcom.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

mszczuj, you are a genius.

I am as pleased with your finding those films as I am with the Brian, Gothic performance, which is very, very pleased.
The sound quality of Tonia is much better than VHS tape I had so much trouble getting from Russia.

With Lermontov, Prokofiev typically had a row with the director and walked out. Pushkov was brought in to finish the music, he used a rather nice theme of his own and some operetta excerpts.

The other films you found will be useful as well, particulary Lieutenant Kije which was on You Tube but was taken off at the request of Prokofiev's estate.

Thanks again.

I am glad for you, Hattoff! I know how you were looking for that Steppes film a few years ago. mszczuj - you're certainly useful!

[listener]

I'm gonna guess the pianist is Dick Hyman.

Or the composer, if the composer is William Bolcom.

neither name for either composer or pianist.   The composer has been dead for over a half-century, (pianist is still alive).

[Hattoff]

Thanks Johan. It has been a long road.



mszczuj, you will always be a genius to me.

[Hattoff]

From what little I know of him, is the composer Arthur Benjamin?

[listener]

Not Benjamin, and in fact not really known as a composer.
bringing the clip link forward to save page turning.
http://www.4shared.com/audio/XVeoBgtC/listenersmystery.html

[Sef]

neither name for either composer or pianist.   The composer has been dead for over a half-century, (pianist is still alive).

It's not Mrs Mills is it? 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlqZ_gXdEjc&feature=related