The bold and colourful music of Sergey Prokofiev, one of the great composers of the Soviet era, embraces both nineteenth- and twentieth-century idioms in a style entirely its own. His works are celebrated both for their striking orchestral textures and for the lyrical beauty of their melodies, and many of them, including the First Symphony and the ballet ‘Romeo and Juliet’, have become classics among the twentieth-century repertoire.
