Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky

Audiences have long enjoyed Sergei Prokofiev''s musical score for Sergei Eisenstein''s 1938 film Alexander Nevsky. The historical epic cast a thirteenth-century Russian victory over invading Teutonic Knights as an allegory of contemporary Soviet strength in the face of Nazi warmongering. Prokofiev''s and Eisenstein''s work proved an enormous success, both as a collaboration of two of the twentieth...