Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.)
Freddy Kempf’s 2003 Prokofiev solo recital was described as ‘a superb disc’ in Gramophone, whose critic went on to write: ‘Kempf is joyfully exuberant, flashing through every savage challenge with the assurance and instinct of a born virtuoso.’
Kempf, Litton and the Bergen PO now join forces in an all-Prokofiev programme that includes the most popular of his five piano concertos, namely the Third, a spontaneous work, vigorous and melodic in turns and full of striking material presented in a typical Prokofiev manner. This is coupled with the Second Piano Concerto, which Prokofiev himself premièred in 1913, shocking the audience with its modernistic sounds and jagged rhythms.
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16
I. Andantino - Allegretto
II. Scherzo: Vivace
III. Intermezzo: Allegro moderato
IV. Finale: Allegro tempestoso
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
I. Allegro, ma non troppo - Piu mosso - Tempo primo
II. Scherzo: Allegro marcato
III. Andante
IV. Vivace - Moderato - Vivace
Sergey Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
I. Andante - Allegro
II. Tema con variazioni
III. Allegro ma non troppo
May 2010
“[In the G minor concerto] Kempf is less flamboyant than some, perhaps seeking to make musical sense of the argument. The second movement is as lithe and scintillating as one might wish.”
May 2010
*****
“With this disc, Freddy Kempf shoots straight into the top ten of Prokofiev interpreters...[He] keeps it all spruce and plays it relatively straight...The big Rachmaninov tune in the finale [of the Third Concerto] is appropriately grand in the soloist's hands and orchestrally lush.”
Click on any of the works listed above for alternative recordings.
I. Andantino - Allegretto
