Ivan the Terrible is music by Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

 originally composed for the Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein , né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage"...

 film

Ivan the Terrible (film)

Ivan the Terrible is a two-part historical epic film about Ivan IV of Russia made by Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Part 1 was released in 1944 but Part 2 was not released until 1958 due to political censorship...

 about the sixteenth-century ruler. Prokofiev composed music to Part 1 in 1942-44, and to Part 2 in 1945; the score is cataloged as Op. 116. After the composer’s death, music for the film was arranged first into an oratorio (with speaker, soloists, chorus, and orchestra) by Alexander Stasevich (1961), who was the conductor of the film score, and later into a concert scenario by Christopher Palmer (1990). Yet in 1973 the composer Mikhail Chulaki

Mikhail Chulaki

Mikhail Ivanovich Chulaki was a Soviet composer and teacher.He studied under the composer Vladimir Shcherbachov at the Leningrad Conservatory, graduating in 1931. He held administrative and teaching positions, including at the Leningrad Conservatory and taught composition at the Moscow...

 and the choreographer Yuri Grigorovich drew on Prokofiev’s film score to create his ballet entitled Ivan the Terrible, which was given its premiere in 1975.

This is one of the two works born from Prokofiev's collaboration with Eisenstein, the other being Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)

Alexander Nevsky is the score for the 1938 Sergei Eisenstein film Alexander Nevsky, composed by Sergei Prokofiev. He later rearranged the music in the form of a cantata for mezzo-soprano, chorus, and orchestra...

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Part 1

Scene 1: Prologue

• Overture
• Death of Glinskaya
• Young Ivan's March
• The Ocean - The Sea
• Shuisky and the Keepers of the Hounds
• Death of Glinskaya

Scene 2: The Coronation

• Kyrie eleison
• Sofroniev Cherubic Hymn (by A. Kastalsky)
• May he live forever!

Scene 3: The Wedding

• Glorification
• The Swan
• The Simpleton
• Riot

Scene 4: The Conquest of Kazan

• Entrance of the Tartars
• Cannon are brought to Kazan
• Kurbsky's Trumpets
• Ivan's Tent
• Tartar Steppes
• The Artillerymen
• The Tartars
• Kurbsky's Trumpets
• Attack
• Malyuta's Jealousy
• Kazan has fallen

Scene 5: Ivan's Illness

• O, my soul (liturgical chant)
• O, Lord most gracious (liturgical chant)
• O, my soul (liturgical chant)
• Ivan's Appeal to the Boyars

Scene 6: The Death of Anastasia

• Anastasia's Illness
• Anastasia is poisoned
• Eternal Remembrance (liturgical chant)
• Rest with the Saints (liturgical chant)
• Thou Alone (liturgical chant)
• Ivan at Anastasia's Coffin

Scene 7: The Oath of the Oprichniks

• Oath of the Oprichniks
• Come back!

Part 2

• Overture

Scene 8: At the Polish Court

• Fanfares
• Polonaise
• Fanfares

Scene 9: Lamentation for the Executed Boyars

• Do not sob, Mother (by F. Ivanov)
• It were better for you, Judas
• Shuisky and the Keepers of the Hounds

Scene 10: The Fiery Furnace (liturgical drama)

• Wondrous is God (by D. Bortnyansky)
• Song of the Boys
• Song about the Beaver

Scene 11: The Tsar's Banquet and the Cathedral

• Chaotic Dance and Orderly Dance of the Oprichniks
• Song of the Oprichniks
• O, my soul (liturgical chant)
• Song of the Oprichniks (without choir)
• Chorus of the Oprichniks (without words)
• Vladimir's Murder
• Entrance of Ivan
• Finale

Recordings

Sergei Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible

Ballet de l’Opéra National de Paris; Nicolas Le Riche (Ivan), Eleonora Abbagnato (Anastasia), Karl Paquette (Kurbsky); Corps de Ballet et Orchestre de l’Opéra de Paris, Vello Pähn (cond.)

TDK DVWW-BLITT [DVD]

External link: http://www.operatoday.com/content/2005/12/prokofiev_ivan_1.php