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This 4-CD collector’s box features Matti Raekallio with piano solo music by Sergei Prokofiev, including a complete set of the nine Piano Sonatas.
Finnish-born pianist Matti Raekallio has built an international reputation particularly upon his reference interpretations of Prokofiev’s piano music. A prolific pedagogue, he joined in 2007 the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York, having previously held professorships at Western Michigan University, as well as in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Hanover.
Also included are the famous Ten Pieces for Piano from Romeo and Juliet, Visions fugitives, and Sarcasms, as well as further cycles and popular piano solo pieces
All recordings were previously released to highest acclaim.
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
I. Allegro, ma non troppo
II. Scherzo: Allegro marcato
III. Andante
IV. Vivace
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29
I. Allegro molto sostenuto
II. Andante assai
III. Allegro con brio, ma non leggiere
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major, Op. 38
I. Allegro tranquillo
II. Andantino
III. Un poco allegretto
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
I. Allegro moderato
II. Allegretto
III. Tempo di valzer lentissimo
IV. Vivace
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83
I. Allegro inquieto
II. Andante caloroso
III. Precipitato
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84
I. Andante dolce
II. Andante sognando
III. Vivace
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 9 in C major, Op. 103
I. Allegretto
II. Allegro strepitoso
III. Andante tranquillo
IV. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo presto
Sergey Prokofiev: 4 Etudes, Op. 2
No. 1. Allegro
No. 2. Moderato
No. 3. Andante semplice - Presto
No. 4. Presto energico
Sergey Prokofiev: Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
Sergey Prokofiev: Sarcasms, Op. 17
I. Tempestoso
II. Allegro rubato
III. Allegro precipitato
IV. Smanioso
V. Precipitosissimo
Sergey Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22
I. Lentamente
II. Andante
III. Allegretto
IV. Animato
V. Molto giocoso
VI. Con eleganza
VII. Pittoresco
VIII. Commodo
IX. Allegretto tranquillo
X. Ridicolosamente
XI. Con vivacita
XII. Assai moderato
XIII. Allegretto
XIV. Feroce
XV. Inquieto
XVI. Dolente
XVII. Poetico
XVIII. Con una dolce lentezza
XIX. Presto agitatissimo e molto accentuato
XX. Lento irrealmente
Sergey Prokofiev: Old Grandmother's Tales, Op. 31
I. Moderato
II. Andantino
III. Andante assai
IV. Sostenuto
Sergey Prokofiev: 10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75
No. 1. Folk Dance
No. 2. Scene
No. 3. Minuet
No. 4. The Little Girl Juliet
No. 5. Maskers
No. 6. Montagues and Capulets
No. 7. Friar Lawrence
No. 8. Mercutio
No. 9. Dance of the Antilles' Girls
No. 10. Romeo and Juliet Before Parting
October 2011
“Formidably played and well recorded, it will alert even the most seasoned listener to the conflicting elements of Prokofiev's always "difficult", prickly and volatile nature...[Raekallio] plays with a shot-from-guns virtuosity that carries all before it...[it] makes for compulsive listening, achieving a keen sense of "works of art that are full of glittering razor-blades" (Picasso)”
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Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1
