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Prokofiev Sonatas
Sergei Prokofiev

Elise Batnes / Havard Gimse

Prokofiev Sonatas

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Format: CD
Label: Lawo Classics
UPC: 7090020181301
Catnr: LWC 1118
Release date: 23 January 2017
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Label
Lawo Classics
UPC
7090020181301
Catalogue number
LWC 1118
Release date
23 January 2017
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While Prokofiev's first violin sonata was meant to sound 'like wind in a cemetery', the second, written as a flute sonata, is characterized more by cloudless skies and an absence of concerns. Both are dedicated to the legendary violinist, David Oistrakh, who played parts of the first sonata at Prokofiev's funeral. On this recording, the Five Melodies serve as the transition between light and darkenss. The work was originally a wordless vocalise written while Prokofiev was living in the USA. It was arranged for violin and piano during his years in Paris.
Während Prokofjews erste Violinsonate ‚wie Wind auf einem Friedhof‘ klingen sollte, ist die zweite - als Flötensonate komponiert - mehr durch ‚wolkenlosen Himmel und ein Fehlen von Bedenken‘ geprägt. Beide sind dem legendären Violinisten David Oistrakh gewidmet, der Teile der ersten Sonate bei Prokofjews Beerdigung spielte. Auf dieser Aufnahme dienen die ‚Five Melodies‘ als Übergang von Licht zu Dunkelheit.

Artist(s)

Håvard Gimse (piano)

Håvard Gimse is firmly established as one of Norway’s leading musicians, with a bold and expansive repertoire, and an impressive list of thirty piano concertos he has performed. Gimse is in frequent demand as both soloist and chamber musician, and as concert artist he has toured throughout Scandinavia and appeared abroad with the Baltimore, Tokyo and Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, among others. His strong affinity for Scandinavian music, and Norwegian music in particular, has made him one of the leading recording artists in this arena. Gimse has been the recipient of the Grieg Prize (1996) and the Sibelius Prize (2004), and he has been honoured with a Diapson...
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Håvard Gimse is firmly established as one of Norway’s leading musicians, with a bold and expansive repertoire, and an impressive list of thirty piano concertos he has performed. Gimse is in frequent demand as both soloist and chamber musician, and as concert artist he has toured throughout Scandinavia and appeared abroad with the Baltimore, Tokyo and Birmingham Symphony Orchestras, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, among others. His strong affinity for Scandinavian music, and Norwegian music in particular, has made him one of the leading recording artists in this arena. Gimse has been the recipient of the Grieg Prize (1996) and the Sibelius Prize (2004), and he has been honoured with a Diapson d’Or and with Gramophone’s Critics Choice.
Håvard Gimse has performed on many of the world’s most prestigious concert stages, including Carnegie Hall in New York City, Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. As chamber musician he regularly gives guest performances at Wigmore Hall in London. In the course of Gimse’s longstanding collaboration with Norwegian cellist Truls Mørk, the two artists have toured together in Japan, Italy and the USA.
Scandinavian appearances in 2015-2016 have included a critically acclaimed performance of Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, an extensive Norwegian concert tour devoted to Beethoven, and concerts at the Norwegian National Opera. He has also performed at the Bergen International Festival and appeared as soloist with the Gothenburg Symphony.

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Elise Båtnes (violin)

Elise Båtnes began playing the violin at age four and debuted as soloist with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra four years later. As first concertmaster of Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, she appears as soloist with leading orchestras and conductors around the world. She has five earlier recordings on the LAWO Classics label.
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Elise Båtnes began playing the violin at age four and debuted as soloist with Trondheim Symphony Orchestra four years later. As first concertmaster of Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, she appears as soloist with leading orchestras and conductors around the world. She has five earlier recordings on the LAWO Classics label.

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Composer(s)

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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