"A world of uncomplicated children's fiction. There is nothing striking to the imagination, scary, monstrous. This is a soft, kind fairy tale-narrative, in which the story and the dream are closely intertwined. We can believe that here are embodied images not a fairy tale, told to children, and their own ideas about the fantastic, always living in the minds of children's children quite close to what they have seen and experienced. In fact, true fantasy appears only in the middle section at the sostenuto remark, while in the first and final sections a dreamy narrative with a simple melody against a background of invariably repeated rhythmic turns prevails. These rhythmic repetitions seem to ‘cement’ the form of the Tale, restraining its narrative tendencies."
(V. Delson, “Prokofiev’s Piano Works and Pianism”)
Sergei Prokofiev: «12 Easy Pieces for Piano» Op. 65, No. 3. «Fairy Tale»
