Prokofiev - Sonatas, Romeo & Juliet / Shostakovich - Preludes
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4807075
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 5th January 2015
Contents
Works
Piano Sonata no.2 in D minor, op.14Piano Sonata no.8 in B flat major, op.84
Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
Artists
Lazar Berman (piano)Works
Piano Sonata no.2 in D minor, op.14Piano Sonata no.8 in B flat major, op.84
Romeo and Juliet: Pieces (10) for piano, op.75
Artists
Lazar Berman (piano)About
For Lazar Berman, a true pianist of the ‘old school’, the music of Prokofiev and Shostakovich were as far as he ventured into the twentieth century, but Prokofiev’s Eighth Sonata was, with Rachmaninov’s Moments musicaux, his first solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon in 1975.
Prokofiev’s Suite for Romeo and Juliet is comprised of ten pieces in all. On his recording, Berman omitted the first of these (Folk Dance). From tenderness to thunder, Berman impresses with the sheer weight of his conception as well as his insight into this music. The Shostakovich Preludes provided the coupling for his recording of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
‘one is awestruck by Berman’s monumental pianism. His touch is alternately light and tender and then thundering as the needs of the music vary … He seems to instil more insight into the performance of this music than do orchestras, something that seems impossible.’ - (Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet) Fanfare
‘I warm to this [version] in particular for the way Berman seeks out the freshness of colour and the lyricism … His refusal to gabble the quick movements or to ginger them up with an excess of virtuoso agitation, as so many pianists do, is indeed refreshing. I need hardly add that his performance is nothing if not a virtuoso one all the same.’ - (Prokofiev: Sonata No. 2) Gramophone
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