Five Melodies for Violin and Piano (Prokofiev)

Five Melodies op. 35a for violin and piano is a chamber music work of the Russian composer Sergey Prokofiev of 1925, based on a transcription of the five songs without words op. 35. Edit Backgroundtext The five melodies op. 35a for violin and piano are a reworking of the five songs without words that Prokofiev composed in 1920 and dedicated to the Russian singer Nina Koschlitz, a cycle of vocalises connected with the melodic conception of Rachmaninov , The Five Melodies are "typical of the music of Prokofiev: soon exquisite, expressive, sometimes joking, sometimes of purposeful motorism." One of the five songs or melodies, the No. 4, A major, Prokofiev also worked for piano and integrated it into the cycle of Six transcriptions, op. 52. Single-level Edit source text

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