The Long LineThe Long Line

Sergei Prokofiev

War and Peace

Composed 1942 Orchestral

War and Peace (Op. 91) (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir) is a 1946 230-minute opera in 13 scenes, plus an overture and an epigraph, by Sergei Prokofiev. Based on the 1869 novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, its Russian libretto was prepared by the composer and Mira Mendelson. The first seven scenes are devoted to peace, the latter six, after the epigraph, to war.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Movements

  1. Epigraph: The forces of 2 and 10 European nations (Chorus)
  2. Overture
  3. Scene 10: And so, gentlemen, the question is … (Benigsen)
  4. Scene 10: The enemy bears down on us with fire and steel (Soldier)
  5. Scene 10: When, oh when was this dreadful business decided? (Kutuzov)
  6. Scene 11: Davout, the cruel Davout, the emperor Napoleon's hatchet man! (Pierre)
  7. Scene 11: I must do the deed, or die (Pierre)
  8. Scene 11: Moscow's deserted! (Ramballe)
  9. Scene 11: Nothing matters now, nothing (Pierre)
  10. Scene 11: What a dreadful scene! (Napoleon)
  11. Scene 11: Where did you get such a good going-over, lads? (Jacqueau)
  12. Scene 12: Has fate really brought us together so strangely today … (Prince Andrey)
  13. Scene 12: It's stretching higher and further (Prince Andrey)
  14. Scene 13: Dolokhov said that Helene had passed away (Pierre)
  15. Scene 13: Hey! Hey! Hey! (Voice Off-Stage)
  16. Scene 13: The Commander-in-chief is coming! (Adjutant)
  17. Scene 13: The enemy has been put to rout (Kutuzov)
  18. Scene 13: We've burnt our bridges … (Ramballe)
  19. Scene 1: I won’t, I can’t sleep (Natasha)
  20. Scene 1: O God, my God! What a shame to sleep! (Natasha)
  21. Scene 1: The radiance of the sky in spring … (Prince Andrey)
  22. Scene 2
  23. Scene 2: Chorus! Let the chorus begin! (Host)
  24. Scene 2: Look, the colonel’s dancing the mazurka (Peronskaya, Akhrosimova, Helene, Anatoly, Count Rostov)
  25. Scene 2: When I was at Otradnoye in May (Prince Andrey)
  26. Scene 2: Will no one choose me as a partner? (Natasha)
  27. Scene 3: Ah, Madam, young lady … (Prince Nikolay Bolkonsky)
  28. Scene 3: The young Prince’s fiancee (Old Footman)
  29. Scene 4: She's wonderful and so beautiful (Natasha)
  30. Scene 4: The charming, delightful Natasha (Helene)
  31. Scene 5: At 10 o'clock in the evening, she'll be waiting (Anatoly)
  32. Scene 5: Balaga! (Dolokhov)
  33. Scene 6: A fine young lady you are! (Akhrosimova)
  34. Scene 6: I've sought to avoid her (Pierre)
  35. Scene 6: Oh, my dear Miss Natasha, all is lost, it seems (Dunyasha)
  36. Scene 7: Picture the scene, Countess (Metivier)
  37. Scene 8: Come on lads! That's the way! (Volunteers, Tikhon)
  38. Scene 8: Denisov, her first fiancee (Prince Andrey)
  39. Scene 8: Hurrah! Hurrah! (Chorus of Soldiers)
  40. Scene 8: It's the master, look at him! (Fyodor)
  41. Scene 8: There is no people greater than ours (Kutuzov)
  42. Scene 9: The wine is uncorked; we must drink it (Napoleon)
  43. War and Peace, op.91: Epigraph
  44. War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace): War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace), Scene 1
  45. War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace): War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace), Scene 2
  46. War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace): War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace), Scene 3
  47. Part II. Scene IV. "Čudo, kak khorša ona, krasavica takaya" (Nataša, Anatol', Sonya, Graf Rostov)
  48. War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace): War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace), Scene 5
  49. War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace): War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace), Scene 6
  50. War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace): War and Peace, op.91: Part I (Peace), Scene 7
  51. War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War): War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War), Scene 8
  52. War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War): War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War), Scene 9
  53. War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War): War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War), Scene 10
  54. War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War): War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War), Scene 11
  55. War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War): War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War), Scene 12
  56. War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War): War and Peace, op.91: Part II (War), Scene 13

Elsewhere

← All of the composer’s works