Sonata no. 2 in D minor, Op.14 (1912)
1. i Allegro ma non troppo
2. ii Allegro marcato
3. iii Andante
4. iv Vivace
4 Pieces Op.4 (1910-1912)
5. I Réminiscence
6. II Elan
7. III Désespoir
8. IV gestion diabolique
9. Song without Words (1905?)
Things in Themselves, 2 pieces Op. 45
10. I
11. II
Children’s Music Op. 65 (1935)
12. I Morning
13. II Promenade
14. III A short Tale
15. IV Tarantella
16. V Regrets
17. VI Waltz
18. VII Crasshoppers’ Parade
19. VIII Rain and Rainbow
20. IX Playing “tag”
21. X March
22. XI Evening
23. XII Moonlit meadows
Sonata no.4 in C minor, Op. 29 “From Old Notebooks” (1908 rev. 1917
24. i Allegro molto sostenuto
25. ii Andante assai
26. iii Allegro con brio ma non leggero
Complete Piano Music Vol. 4 ©
The young Prokofiev was by all accounts a man of extraordinary exhuberance and vitality, and this must have influenced not only the way in which his audiences perceived him as a performer, but also his actual style and method of composition. It may be argued that his tactile sensation of the keyboard directly conditions the overall shape and substance of his compositions; and indeed, in the right hands, the music gives the impression of being borne of the composer’s motoric intoxication by his transcendental piano playing: a celebration of his own prodigious abilities. The risks of such a visceral approach to composition are legion – above all that the emotional ‘content’ eclipses the formal dimension of the work.
RELEASE DATE: MARCH 1995
CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 394
EAN: 5709499394007
