Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2

Album by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev & Dmitri Kitayenko

Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2 are orchestral works by Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев, composed in 1916–17 and 1924–25. The two works contrast the lean, classically proportioned textures and bright orchestration of the earlier symphony with the darker, more dissonant, motoric rhythms and large-scale experimental architecture of the later work, illustrating Prokofiev's development from neoclassical clarity to a bolder modernist orchestral voice in his career.