Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25

Dmitri Sitkovetsky conducts the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in a performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25. His Symphony No. 1 is also known as the “Classical”, since the composer attempted to write a symphony in the Classical style.

To achieve this, Prokofiev used, for instance, the orchestration that is characteristic of a Classical-period symphony, employing d...