Sergey Prokofiev - Four Pieces

Here Prokofiev returns to a format that he used several times in his early collections, combining four pieces of the kind he had been writing since childhood. Prokofiev's pianistic output of this period is scarce since he put all his efforts into composing his opera The Love for Three Oranges. These pieces as well as the Tales of the Old Grandmother, Op. 31, were partly written to mitigate his economic situation because of the delay of the opera's premiere.