Prokofiev: Violin Concertos & Sonatas, etc.
CML call number: CD CLASSICAL Prokofiev
Contents: Sergey Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas nos. 1 (F minor) and 2 (D major); 5 Mélodies for violin and piano; Violin Concertos nos. 1 and 2; Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor.
Personnel: Joshua Bell, violin; Olli Mustonen, piano; Steven Isserlis, cello; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Charles Dutoit.
From the notes by Jeremy Hayes: "Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata is one of his darkest and most disturbed works, far removed from the warmth of his violin concertos. It is dedicated to the Russian violinist David Oistrakh, who played through the work with the composer before he gave its premiere in Moscow in 1946. 'One felt that this was truly great music, and indeed for sheer beauty and depth nothing to equal it had been written for the violin for many a decade,' Oistrakh recalled. When he asked Prokofiev about the very quiet, other-worldly, eerie scale passages that the violin plays at the end of the first movement and again at the end of the finale, the composer told him that they were like wind blowing through a graveyard."
Contents: Sergey Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas nos. 1 (F minor) and 2 (D major); 5 Mélodies for violin and piano; Violin Concertos nos. 1 and 2; Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio no. 2 in E minor.
Personnel: Joshua Bell, violin; Olli Mustonen, piano; Steven Isserlis, cello; Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Charles Dutoit.
From the notes by Jeremy Hayes: "Prokofiev's First Violin Sonata is one of his darkest and most disturbed works, far removed from the warmth of his violin concertos. It is dedicated to the Russian violinist David Oistrakh, who played through the work with the composer before he gave its premiere in Moscow in 1946. 'One felt that this was truly great music, and indeed for sheer beauty and depth nothing to equal it had been written for the violin for many a decade,' Oistrakh recalled. When he asked Prokofiev about the very quiet, other-worldly, eerie scale passages that the violin plays at the end of the first movement and again at the end of the finale, the composer told him that they were like wind blowing through a graveyard."
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