Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas

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Label
Archipel
Release Date
May 12, 2015
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      PROKOFIEV, SERGEY
    • PERFORMER
      Sviatoslav Richter
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 12, 2015
    • UPC
      4035122404654
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ARPCD0465
    • LABEL
      Archipel
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Instrumental
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro moderato

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    2. II. Allegretto

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    3. III. Tempo di valzer lentissimo

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    4. IV. Vivace

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    5. I. Allegro inquieto - Poco meno - Andantino

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    6. II. Andante caloroso

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    7. III. Precipitato

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    8. I. Allegretto

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    9. II. Allegro strepitoso

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    10. III. Andante tranquillo

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter

    11. IV. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo presto

      Composer: Sergei Prokofiev

      Performer: Sviatoslav Richter


His passing most unfortunately coming on the same day as the dreaded Stalin's, Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953), most fortunately, left to posterity a far better, less lethal legacy. His music, often marked rhythmically and instrumentally by the violence and war which surrounded him after his return to the Soviet Union, is all the more dramatic as a result. Few could capture that drama as well as his countryman Sviatoslav Richter, a pianist seemingly born to play his music. These 1956-8 Moscow recordings of the Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 9, capture Mr. Richter at the height of his interpretative powers.