Composer: Sergei Prokofiev, Nikita Mndoyants
Performer: Nikita Mndoyants
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Aparté
Catalogue: AP339
Release: 2024
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29
01. I. Allegro molto sostenuto
02. II. Andante assai
03. III. Allegro con brio ma non leggiere
04. Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100: Scherzo
05. Mndoyants: Nocturne
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84
06. I. Andante dolce – Allegro moderato
07. II. Andante sognando
08. III. Vivace
Pianist Nikita Mndoyants devotes this recording to Prokofiev, whose music has accompanied him since his early days. Here he brings together the Fourth Sonata ‘From Old Notebooks’ and the Eighth, an integral part of the so-called ‘War Sonatas’, as well as an arrangement of the scherzo from the Fifth Symphony.
Nikita Mndoyants thus gives us an insight into the composer’s different facets, and a measure of the richness of a language that combines exceptional virtuosity, a sense of enchantment and biting irony.
In counterpoint, Nikita Mndoyants records a Nocturne for piano written by himself, continuing the Russian tradition of pianist-composers and following in the footsteps of Russia’s ‘enfant terrible’.