Sonic Asymmetry

Sergei Prokofiev: “Peter and the Wolf”

セルゲイ・プロコフィエフ：「ピーターと狼」

TIME COMMITMENT: 29 minutes

This playful, craftily eloquent carnival of diminutive forms utilizes elusively inventive melodicism and fingerpoints at a myriad of fancies.  The narrative style of the lowly born composer is made even more explicit in this recording by the conductor’s clumsily clobbered, yet elucidating commentary.

MUSIC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfM7Y9Pcdzw&t=162s

My Italian friend suggested also this hilarious version, starring Claudio Abbado with the inimitable Roberto Benigni (e non solo per quelli che capiscono l’italiano):

INFO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf

A REFLECTION

Despite the geologists’ knowledge and craft,

mocking magnets, graphs, and maps—

in a split second the dream

piles before us mountains as stony

as real life.

Wisława Szymborska: “Dreams”