Symphony No. 5 (Prokofiev)

The Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Opus 100 (composed 1944, first performed in Moscow on January 13, 1945) is the größtangelegte and sonically powerful of the seven symphonies by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev. After the "Classic " is his best known and most recorded symphonic work. However, of the progressiveness and the complexity of language and expression fro she remains behind the avant-garde Second Symphony, the dissonant Third Symphony and the structurally freer Sixth Symphony back.

As Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony and Khachaturian's second acted as Prokofiev's patriotic and heroic Soviet " war symphony". Their general affirmative character took the composer in his subsequent, tragic symphony as well as Shostakovich back of his hand in his Eighth.

The work consists of four movements. The total duration is about 45 minutes.

The cast is 2 1, 2 1, 2 it bass, 2 1 - 4, 3, 3, 1, timp, perc: wdbl / tamb / tgl / SD / Cyms / BD / tam -t, hp, pft, st