About This Song
About "Prokofiev: Cinderella, Op. 87, Act 1: No. 13, Summer Fairy" by André Previn
Summer's fairy steps forward in a blaze of brass and shimmering strings, all golden-hour languor and ripe abundance. Previn teases out the movement's hidden melancholy: the heat is lush but heavy, a garden overgrown. It's beauty on the edge of wilting, sweetness with a faint, uneasy rot.