LIEUTENANT KIJE SUITE (OP 60) - TROIKA

Created on 12/01/2009
Latest update on 11/02/2023

Artist: Orchestra of the Leningrad State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Author: Sergei Prokofiev
Label: Belgoskino
Year: 1934

Introduced as a loose theme in Russian film Poruchik Kizhe (Lieutenant Kijé), based on the short story by Yury Tynyanov (1927). Used under the scene where the unexisting Lieutenant, sent to Siberia anyway, is on his way back to the Czar to become commander of the forces as General Major Kijé. See also: Lieutenant Kije Suite Romance. Prokofiev turned it into a symphonic Suite following the film's success; this theme was incorporated in the Fourth Movement.

Covers:

1934:

Moscow Radio Orchestra [at the première of the Suite with Prokofiev conducting]

1975:

Greg Lake [in I Believe In Father Christmas; n°2 UK]

2000:

Six By Seven [idem on Jeepster cd It's A Cool Cool Christmas]

2013:

Susan Boyle [idem]

Prokovief died March 5, 1953, same date as Jozef Stalin.

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