Sergei Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 6-8

Klasyczna Muzyka Kameralna
premiera polska: 18.02.2022
opakowanie: digipackowe etui
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Editor's info:
Prokofiev’s music has always been close to my heart.
In his childhood, the Russian composer loved to improvise on the piano, just as I did. His piano style was not as sprawling as, say, that of Rachmaninov, his contemporary. Yet it was all the more flexible, capable of instantly morphing to reflect current events – a style at times fresh and charged with energy, at others suddenly brooding.
Prokofiev’s music was stylistically multilayered from the onset, here and there juxtaposing melodies of a Classical bent with irony, self-deprecation, and driving rhythmic impulse. His skillful formal mastery and his unquenchable thirst for drama derived from opera, and always served him as a striking, never-ending source of inspiration.
In its impressive cohesion and vitality, Prokofiev’s piano output elaborately intermingles a variety of surprising moments where a touch of human feeling sneaks up on the listener, thereby revealing striking sincerity and profound inner feeling. Far from consisting in episodes of post-Romantic bathos, these are moments of bleak, violent despair.
Take, for example, the emotional outbreaks and the instances of sudden, hushed introversion in Prokofiev’s Second Piano Concerto, written prior to the Russian Revolution.
(Excerpt from the liner notes by the artist)

muzycy:
Severin von Eckardstein, piano

utwory:
1. Piano Sonata No. 6 A-Dur / in A Major, Op. 82 (1939/40) I. Allegro moderato 08:25
2. Piano Sonata No. 6 A-Dur / in A Major, Op. 82 (1939/40) II. Allegretto 04:40
3. Piano Sonata No. 6 A-Dur / in A Major, Op. 82 (1939/40) III. Tempo di valzer lentissimo 06:31
4. Piano Sonata No. 6 A-Dur / in A Major, Op. 82 (1939/40) IV. Vivace 06:55
5. Piano Sonata No. 7 B-Dur / in B flat Major, Op. 83 (1939/42) I. Allegro inquieto 08:19
6. Piano Sonata No. 7 B-Dur / in B flat Major, Op. 83 (1939/42) II. Andante caloroso 07:08
7. Piano Sonata No. 7 B-Dur / in B flat Major, Op. 83 (1939/42) III. Precipitato 03:50
8. Piano Sonata No. 8 B-Dur / in B flat Major, Op. 84 (1939/44) I. Andante dolce 15:18
9. Piano Sonata No. 8 B-Dur / in B flat Major, Op. 84 (1939/44) II. Andante sognando 04:16
10. Piano Sonata No. 8 B-Dur / in B flat Major, Op. 84 (1939/44) III. Vivace 10:12

wydano: 03 September 2021
nagrano: Recording: V 2020, Sendesaal Bremen. Piano: Steinway & Sons D No. 597020