Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

With the Russian Revolution raging in the background, Prokofiev hit upon the idea of writing his first symphony as though Haydn were still writing music in 1917. Nicknamed the ‘Classical’, the result is wonderfully light-hearted and whimsical, and not without a certain amount of impertinence for the classical form, meshing the tradition of clarity and formality with the renegade spirit of his early works.