Thread: Prokofiev and the Red Heat Soundtrack

Hello, friends of the russian language

I've got a problem that vexed me the whole day: I'm fascinated by the title music of Red Heat and so I was looking for the lyrics.

As I learned from the link, it should be merely a rearranged version of Prokofiev's Op. 74 "CANTATA FOR THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION", Chapter "Philosophers", but I could not find a free source for the music sheets and buying the full orchestral sheetbook for two lines of text is too much for my student budget. However, since Prokofiev used statements by various socialist personalities I found that "Philosophers" is a canon of the Marx quote: "Философы лишь различным образом объясняли мир, но дело заключается в том, чтобы изменить его." This seems to fit very well with this recording of the London Symphony Orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0veYI4SKGw ("Philosophers" starts 2:25 into the Video).

However, when I compared it to the Red Heat Soundtrack (available here, the music starts at 3:45), the text does not seem to add up. My russian is only very basic, but either the text got scrambled by the rearrangement or there is a wholly new text used with the same melody. I searched through the rest of the cantata, but could not find a passage that would fit. I'm sorry to be unable to supply samples with higher audio quality.

So here I ask You, kind readers, if You can make sense of this. Can You understand what the text in the Red Heat version says? Or do You at least recognize a few words (enabling a google search, provided the new text is another famous saying)? Is this maybe some kind of easter egg or hidden message by the Composer?


Thank You in advance! Yours, Victor R.

My Russian is perfect (I assume) though I was never able to recognize words in singing like this. Chorus sings several parts simultaneously with different tempos... And all these tempos do not fit natural intonation of the text. After several times listening I found that yes, the first word most probably is Философы. What is singing on further is completely out of my comprehension.