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Composer of the Week Prokofiev - Back in the USSR Episodes

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  1. Denunciation and Decline

    5/5 Prokofiev's decline and death after his music was denounced by the state in the late 1940s

  2. War and Peace

    4/5 Donald Macleod tells the troubled story of Prokofiev's operatic masterpiece War and Peace.

  3. Alexander Nevsky

    3/5 Focusing on Prokofiev's first struggles with the brutal realities of state criticism.

  4. Romeo and Juliet

    2/5 Donald Macleod focuses on the genesis of Prokofiev's ballet masterpiece Romeo and Juliet.

  5. A Prodigal Son Returns

    1/5 Why Prokofiev chose to return to the USSR at the height of Stalin's Great Terror.