Each Friday we select a track from a Naxos Music Group album released twenty years ago to provide the accompaniment for five minutes of your downtime.
This week’s pick from the Ondine label (ODE1060-2) features a short piano movement by Sergei Prokofiev. In 1940, the Bolshoi Theatre commissioned Prokofiev to write a new full-length ballet, Cinderella, preparations for which were cut short by the war, and the work was not premiered until 1945. During the long war years, Prokofiev wrote a number of piano arrangements of numbers from the unperformed ballet. From his 6 Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 102, here’s Amoroso.