Severin von Eckardstein - Two Piano Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Vivace. C Major 2. Allegretto. a Minor 3. Vivo. G Major 4. Lento. E minor 5. Andante Cantabile. D Major 6. Allegro. Si Minor 7. Allegro Assai. a Major 8. Allegro Agitato. F Sharp minor 9. Andantino. E Major 10. Andante. C Sharp minor 11. Allegro Assai. Si Major 12. Andante. G Sharp minor 13. Lento. G Flat Major 14. Presto. E Flat minor 15. Lento. D Flat Major 16. Misterioso. Si Flat minor 17. Allegretto. a Flat Major 18. Allegro Agitato. F minor 19. Affettuoso. E Flat Major 20. Appassionato. C minor 21. Andante. B Flat Major 22. Lento. G minor 23. Vivo. F Major 24. Presto. D minor 25. Drammatico 26. Allegretto 27. Andante 28. Presto Con Fuoco

Severin von Eckardstein writes InchProkofiev's music has always been close to my heart. In his childhood, the Russian composer loved to improvise on the piano, just as I did. His piano style was not as sprawling as, say, that of Rachmaninov, his contemporary. Yet it was all the more flexible, capable of instantly morphing to reflect current events - a style at times fresh and charged with energy, at others suddenly brooding. Prokofiev's music was stylistically multilayered from the onset, here and there juxtaposing melodies of a Classical bent with irony, self-deprecation, and driving rhythmic impulse. His skillful formal mastery and his unquenchable thirst for drama derived from opera, and always served him as a striking, never-ending source of inspiration. In it's impressive cohesion and vitality, Prokofiev's piano output elaborately intermingles a variety of surprising moments where a touch of human feeling sneaks up on the listener, thereby revealing striking sincerity and profound inner feeling. Far from consisting in episodes of post-Romantic bathos, these are moments of bleak, violent despair. Take, for example, the emotional outbreaks and the instances of sudden, hushed introversion in Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto, written prior to the Russian Revolution.Inch Album Tracks 1. Piano Sonata No. 6 A-Dur / in a Major, Op.89 2. I. Allegro Moderato 3. II. Allegretto 4. III. Tempo Di Valzer Lentissimo 5. IV. Vivace 6. Piano Sonata No. 7 B-Dur / in B Flat Major, Op. 83 7. I. Allegro Inquieto 8. II. Andante Caloroso 9. III. Precipitato 10. Piano Sonata No. 8 B-Dur / in B Flat Major, Op. 84 11. I. Andante Dolce 12. II. Andante Sognando 13. III. Vivace

Album Tracks 1. Allegretto Cantando 2. Allegro Risoluto 3. Allegretto Molto Tranquillo 4. Allegretto Frescamente 5. Allegro Marciale 6. Vivace 7. Narrante a Piacere 8. Adante 9. Allegro Appassionato E Tempestoso 10. Allegretto Leggiero 11. Andantino (Quasi Allegretto) 12. Introduzione. Adante Con Moto - Allegro 13. Allegro Molto Sfrenamente Presto