普罗科菲耶夫的作曲风格从俄罗斯帝政末期的现代主义，到社会主义时期的写实手法，可谓务实而又多变的现代作曲家之一。他为小提琴所写的作品，包括两首著名的协奏曲、两首为小提琴和钢琴所作的奏鸣曲(作品Op.80与Op.94)、C大调双小提琴奏鸣曲、D大调无伴奏奏鸣曲，以及两首未完成的奏鸣曲。
《f小调第一小提琴奏鸣曲》(Op.80)作于1938至1946年间，此曲以18世纪巴洛克奏鸣曲的形式作为全曲的架构，运用独特的音乐语法和尖锐的和声音响，巧妙地将两个不同世纪的写作手法融合在一起。《D大调小提琴奏鸣曲》(Op.94bis)则是普罗科菲耶夫接受了小提琴家欧伊斯特拉赫的意见，改编自1943年所作的长笛奏鸣曲。这两首作品都是题献给好友欧伊斯特拉赫的。收录于本片中的《五首旋律》(Op.35bis)，则改编自1920年的声乐作品。
Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80, written between 1938 and 1946 (completed two years after Violin Sonata No. 2), is one of the darkest and most brooding of the composer's works.
The work is about 30 minutes long and is in four movements:
Prokofiev had described the slithering violin scales at the end of the 1st and 4th movements as 'wind passing through a graveyard'.
The work was premiered by David Oistrakh and Lev Oborin, under the personal coaching of the composer. During rehearsals, Oborin played a certain passage, marked forte, too gently for Prokofiev's liking, who insisted it should be more aggressive. Oborin replied that he was afraid of drowning out the violin, but Prokofiev said "It should sound in such a way that people should jump in their seat, and people will say 'Is he out of his mind?'".[1]
The first and third movements of the sonata were played at Prokofiev's funeral by Oistrakh and Samuil Feinberg
