Sergei Prokofiev - Flourish, Mighty Land

- Composer: Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (23 April 1891 -- 5 March 1953) - Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra - Choir: Russian State Symphony Capella - Conductor: Valeri Polyansky - Year of recording: 2003 Translation of text on the poster: “to raise our happiness and peace!“ Flourish, Mighty [Home]land, cantata for chorus & orchestra, Op. 114, written in 1947. This composition was written in celebration of the 30th anniversary of the October 1917 Russian Revolution. Soviet composers were routinely expected to satisfy the demands of state occasions, and Prokofiev did so several times. but hardly with enthusiasm. Flourish, Mighty Homeland lasts less than ten minutes in performance and is a relatively modest work, especially when compared with the composer’s Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution (1936 - 1937), a massive work requiring five hundred performers and containing veiled satire. Finished during Stalin’s first reign