Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Performer: Alexander Melnikov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Catalogue: HMC902202
Release: 2016
Size: 1.05 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
01. I. Allegro, ma non troppo
02. II. Scherzo. Allegro marcato
03. III. Andante
04. IV. Vivace
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
05. I. Allegro moderato
06. II. Allegretto
07. III. Tempo di valzer lentissimo
08. IV. Vivace
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84
09. I. Andante dolce – Allegro moderato
10. II. Andante sognando
11. III. Vivace
In this first volume of a complete cycle of the Prokofiev sonatas, his compatriot Alexander Melnikov reveals three emblematic works. The brilliant Second Sonata dates from 1912, when its composer was still a student at the St Petersburg Conservatory; with the Sixth (1939) and Eighth (1944) we meet the master in his full maturity, plunged in the darkest years of the Great Terror and the war. Echoes of his music for the theatre, lyricism and violence mingle amid ultra-virtuoso pianism.