Prokofiev's Schubert-Waltz Suite

This is a postscript to yesterday's post about Liszt's Soirées de Vienne. In the early twentieth century, Prokofiev strung together several Schubert waltzes to make a concert encore piece. Although decidedly less imaginative than Liszt's compositions, Prokofiev's suite does reposition and reinterpret (often by changing keys) a total of 15 waltzes: D145,waltzes ns9,10; D146n3, trio I; D365n31; D734ns2,14; D779ns3,10,12; D783n1 (=D790n2); D790ns3,5,6; D969ns5,7.

The formal groupings (represented by dividers in the table below) rely mainly on reprises, but there is also some attention to key relations. Note, finally, that D779n13 is not included in the suite, although it might easily have been inserted at bar 41 or 194 in its original key, or several other places in transposition.

Prokofiev, Waltzes by Schubert

m. #	source	key(s)
1*	D969n5	a-e
25	D969n7, contrasting middle	e
33*	D969n5 -- reprise	a-e (final chord: E)
41	D146n3, trio I	A
75	D734n2	D-A
91*	D969n5 -- reprise	a-e
99	D790n6	g#
123	D790n3	D
155	D790n5	b
179	D790n3 -- reprise	D
187*	D969n5 -- reprise	a-e (final chord: E)
194	D783n1 (=D790n2)	A
218*	D969n5 -- reprise	a-e
226	D145-waltzes,n9	a
258	D365n31	C
278	D779n10	G
304	D779n3	G
330	D734n14	C
346	D145-waltzes,n9 -- reprise	e
362	D365n31 --reprise	C
372*	D969n5 -- reprise	a-e
396	D779n12	C – g#-b-D
436	D145,waltzes n10	b
460	D779n12, second strain	b-D-d-F
476*	D969n5 -- reprise	a-e

Update 2-20-10: Here is a link to a performance file on YouTube: this is Frederic Chiu's recording. I'm not sure why it is on YouTube or how long it will stay.