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Prokofiev: Piano Pieces

Evgenia Rubrinova

Prokofiev: Piano Pieces

Format: CD
Label: CAvi
UPC: 4260085533039
Catnr: AVI 8553303
Release date: 10 January 2014
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Label
CAvi
UPC
4260085533039
Catalogue number
AVI 8553303
Release date
10 January 2014
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In his piano works, Prokofiev associates his modern musical vocabulary with classical forms and ingenious wit. The lyricism in his music remains expressive without ever becoming unduly sentimental. The structures are crystal-clear, thought out in every detail. Each piece bears Prokofiev’s personal, unmistakable stylistic mark.

All of these tendencies are contained in nuce in Prokofiev’s piano works at a very early stage: he managed to create his personal musical style ever since youth. Thus in the initial third of his output we can already find several everlasting masterworks.

That is also the period from which I selected works for this CD. ….. (Excerpt from the liner notes written by Evgenia Rubinova)

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Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Prokofiev was born in the countryside of Ukraine. He studied from 1903 at the conservatory of St Petersburg, under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoli Liadov among others. He was educated as a composer, pianist and conductor. Initially, he made a name for himself as a pianist. In 1918, he left the Soviet Union for the USA, but wasn't able to succeed, and he decided to move to Paris in 1920. His concert tours brought him back to the Soviet Union in 1927, who lured him back for good in 1936. Prokofiev died in march 1953, on the same day as Joseph Stalin. Prokofiev is considered as one of the greatest Russian composers of the twentieth century, even though he wasn't a...
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Sergei Prokofiev was born in the countryside of Ukraine. He studied from 1903 at the conservatory of St Petersburg, under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Anatoli Liadov among others. He was educated as a composer, pianist and conductor. Initially, he made a name for himself as a pianist. In 1918, he left the Soviet Union for the USA, but wasn't able to succeed, and he decided to move to Paris in 1920. His concert tours brought him back to the Soviet Union in 1927, who lured him back for good in 1936. Prokofiev died in march 1953, on the same day as Joseph Stalin.
Prokofiev is considered as one of the greatest Russian composers of the twentieth century, even though he wasn't a great innovator. He generally applied the strict classical forms and structures to his works and focused on a classical tonality, with a few exceptions of expressive dissonants and incidental bitonality. Yet, he is only explicitly neoclassicistic in his popular 'Classical Symphony', his first symphony composed in 1917. Many of his works show his humour, while his later works presented his darker, more serious side. One of his best known works is the musical fairytale Peter and the Wolf, which is popular among children all over the world.
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