Spektakularna!
Scythian Suite is a stillborn ballet - a concert version of the music from Sergey Prokofiev's Ala and Lolli. It is the first work that Prokofiev composed for full symphony orchestra, and one of the most notable of many musical examples by which Prokofiev sought to challenge, if not positively stun, his public. The ballet Le Sacre du Printemps premiered at the "Théâtre des Champs-Elysée" on May 29, 1913. (It caused a riot.) In Paris the following season, the concert performance of Le Sacre du Printemps was as spectacular a triumph as the premiére had been a dèbâcle; the Parisian audience more than redeemed itself for its manners the previous year. - Douglas Brown ©1991