Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)

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Sergei Prokofiev wrote his Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major (Op. 100) in 1944.

Contents 1 Background 2 Movements 3 Instrumentation 4 Premiere 5 Recordings 6 External links

[edit] Background

[edit] Movements

As is usual for symphonies, the piece is in four movements, lasting 40-45 minutes:

1. Andante (in B-flat major)
2. Allegro marcato (in D minor)
3. Adagio (in F major)
4. Allegro giocoso (in B-flat major)

[edit] Instrumentation

Piccolo

2 Flutes

2 Oboes

Cor Anglais

2 Clarinets

E-flat Clarinet

Bass Clarinet

2 Bassoons

Contrabassoon

4 French Horns

3 Trumpets

3 Trombones

Tuba

Timpani

Percussion (Wood Blocks, Tambourine, Triangle, Snare Drum, Cymbals, Bass Drum, Tam-tam)

Harp

Piano

Strings (1st and 2nd Violins, Violas, Cellos and Double Basses).

[edit] Premiere

The symphony was premiered on January 13, 1945 in the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory by the USSR State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Prokofiev himself. The premiere was very well received, and has remained one of the composer's most popular works.

[edit] Recordings

Orchestra	Conductor	Record Company	Year of Recording	Format
Concertgebouw Orchestra	Vladimir Ashkenazy	Decca	1985	CD
New York Philharmonic	Leonard Bernstein	Sony	1966	CD
London Symphony Orchestra	Valery Gergiev	Philips	2004	CD
Concerts Colonne Orchestra	Jascha Horenstein	Voxbox		CD/LP
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra	Mariss Jansons	Chandos Records	1987	CD
Scottish National Orchestra	Neeme Järvi	Chandos Records	1985	CD
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra	Herbert von Karajan	Deutsche Grammophon	1969	CD
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra	Dmitri Kitaenko	RCA	1987	CD
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra	Zdenek Kosler	Supraphon		CD
Boston Symphony Orchestra	Sergei Koussevitzky	RCA, Dutton	1946	CD
National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine	Theodore Kuchar	Naxos	1995	CD
Boston Symphony Orchestra	Erich Leinsdorf	RCA	1963	CD
Chicago Symphony Orchestra	James Levine	Deutsche Grammophon	1992	CD
National Orchestra of the O.R.T.F.	Jean Martinon	VoxBox		CD
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra	Evgeny Mravinsky	Russian Disc, Leningrad Masters	1968	CD
Philadelphia Orchestra	Riccardo Muti	Philips	1990	CD
Philadelphia Orchestra	Eugene Ormandy	Sony	1957	CD
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra	Seiji Ozawa	Deutsche Grammophon	1990	CD
Orchestre National de France	Mstislav Rostropovich	Erato	?	CD
USSR Ministry of Culture State Symphony Orchestra	Gennadi Rozhdestvensky		?	CD/LP
Cleveland Orchestra	George Szell	Sony	1959	CD/LP
London Philharmonic Orchestra	Walter Weller	Decca	?	CD

[edit] External links

v • d • e Symphonies by Sergei Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 in D major Classical Symphony No. 2 in D minor Iron and Steel Symphony No. 3 in C minor Symphony No. 4 in C major Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major Symphony No. 6 in E-flat minor Symphony No. 7 in C-sharp minor