Prokofiev’s death on the same day as Joseph Stalin (5 March 1953) relegated the news of his funeral to the fine print of the last pages of the Soviet and US newspapers. 
Lucky that his memory wasn’t entirely obliterated by the magnitude of the event. But, fortunately, on the contrary: I am ready to wager that today, more than 70 years later, Prokofiev is played and listened more often than Stalin is read (on the other hand, I can think of a number of leaders in the world today who’d love to be Stalin, but not of many composeres who’d love to be Prokofiev…
I’ve posted many reviews of Prokofiev’s Violin Concertos on Amazon.com (fascinating issue of interpretors only rarely observing the precisely-conceived tempo relationships between movements in the 2nd) but haven’t reposted them here yet.
So far, posts or re-posts include:
Violin Concerto No. 2. Jascha Heifetz, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, live 1 April 1949. AS Disc AS 568 Sergei Koussevitzky Edition (1990) (with Beethoven’s Violin Concerto live from 2 September 1950)