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Prokofiev Milestones, Vol.1 CD Release
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Prokofiev Milestones, featuring three characterful sonatas and an arrangement of music from Romeo and Juliet performed by violinist Lana Trotovšek, flutist Boris Bizjak , and Maria Canyigueral on piano.
Prokofiev Milestones revealingly turns the focus away from the prolific composer’s famed orchestral works and celebrated ballets to his rich and varied chamber music.
Catalogue No: SOMMCD 0671 Release Date: 2024-01-19
Number of Discs: 1
EAN/UPC: 748871067127
Artists: Boris Bizjak, Lana Trotovšek, Maria Canyigueral
Composers: Sergei Prokofiev
Genre: Chamber
Period: 20th Century
First performed in 1943, the Sonata for Flute and Piano (Op. 94) is, as Robert Matthew-Walker comments in his notes, “music not of war, but of peace”; a pastoral escape laced with wit and mischief vouchsafed within a pristine neo-classical frame.
It is heard again, transformed, in Prokofiev’s own transcription for Violin and Piano (Op.94a). Composed soon after, it lays claim to being “one of the finest 20th-century works in the genre and a genuine masterpiece”.
The Sonata for Two Violins (Op. 56) is heard in a new arrangement by Boris Bizjak that eloquently makes much of its sentimentality, drama and vitality.
A characterful suite drawn from Romeo and Juliet, and arranged for violin and piano by Lidia Baich and Matthias Fletzberger, revels in Shakespeare’s great romance and Prokofiev’s ardent response to it.
On This Recording
Sonata for Flute and Piano in D Major, Op. 94
Sonata for Two Violins in C Major, Op. 56
Suite from Romeo and Juliet (arr. Lidia Baich and Matthias Fletzberger for violin and piano)
Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 94a