Selections of individual numbers or scenes from large-scale stage works have always been a tried and tested means of making operas or incidental music accessible to a wider audience. Thus, even before the premiere of his ballet music to Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” in Brno in 1938, Prokofiev put together two orchestral suites as well as a collection of ten piano pieces. Although the piano arrangement has to do without the richness of colour of the original orchestral sound, its powerful fund...

• 1. Folk Dance
• 2. Scene
• 3. Minuet
• 4. The Young Maiden Julia
• 5. Masks
• 6. The Montagues and Capulets
• 7. Father Lorenzo
• 8. Mercutio
• 9. Dance of the Maidens from the Antilles
• 10. Romeo with Juliet before parting