Prokofiev's Piano Music

[The new erato]

I've read several glowing reviews of the McDermott cycle, and the price is good, so I probably wouldn't wait for a reissue of Raekallio.

It's been on the list as well, but always avoided being ordered. If you know of any current offers on Bridge, please do tell.

[snyprrr]

I have Chiu's big box -- but I rarely listen. It's perfectly fine.  but somehow uninspiring. Dry acoustic. (Better maybe in the violin sonatas) Maybe other people here will convince me that I have missed something and that I should make a greater effort

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I haven't heard enough of sonatas 2-5 to comment -- I must ecplore that music.

I have heard enough of Sonata 1 though -- one time is more than enough 

I'm curious about the Chiu.

[Herman]

Thanks for the McDermott recommendation. I had forgotten about that set.

Any recommendations for the Visions Fugitives (and/or the other smaller works)?

Demi D.

[Mandryka]

I like Prokofiev's own recording of Visions Fugitives.

[Mandryka]

Who's special in Sonata 9 besides Richter? I also have Zhukov, but somehow I have never gotten into that performance -- maybe I should revisit.

By the way the Melodyia CD with Richter playing it is wonderful

[karlhenning]

I like Prokofiev's own recording of Visions Fugitives.

Yes, but it's just a selection, isn't it?

[not edward]

Yes, but it's just a selection, isn't it?

Yes, some of Prokofiev's own recordings are a great lost opportunity. He's so staggeringly good in the slow movement of the 4th sonata that I wish he'd been captured in the other two movements, for example.

At least there's the complete 3rd piano concerto--and that really is a sensational performance.

[karlhenning]

Aye, love that disc!

[Mandryka]

Yes a selection.

By the way I've been listening to Olli Mustonen's Visions Fugitives with great pleasure. I like it as much as Demidenko's.

[bumtz]

Anybody's familiar with Aelxandra Silocea's recent recording of sonatas 1-5 on Avie (http://www.avie-records.com/album_detail.php?id=524)?



As for concertos, I really like Krainev's recordings with RSO Frankfurt / Kitayenko on Teldec.

[Sammy]

Anybody's familiar with Aelxandra Silocea's recent recording of sonatas 1-5 on Avie (http://www.avie-records.com/album_detail.php?id=524)?

I have this disc and like it very much - nothing glitzy about it, just honest playing with a wonderful sense of imagination.  I should point out that I'm not loaded with alternative versions.

[Herman]

Yes a selection.

By the way I've been listening to Olli Mustonen's Visions Fugitives with great pleasure. I like it as much as Demidenko's.

agreed. both are very good.

[Mandryka]

agreed. both are very good.

You know that Mustonen plays them on Hatto's CD?

I thought of that because I've been playing Hatto's 6th sonata, which is based on Matsuev I think. It's outstanding. Has anyone heard the unaltered Matsuev CDs?

[admiralackbar]

Ok. So, I've got Raekallio. I also have Berman in the re-packaged Chandos box of the sonatas.



The Raekallio includes most of Prokofiev's major works for solo piano, but not "Diabolique Suggestion" (from Op. 4), for example. If the Berman set of the complete music (sonatas + everything else) was available in a box, I'd grab it. (Or Chiu for that matter, which is now out of print, too.)

Any recommendations for picking up "Diabolique Suggestion" as well as anything else missing from the Raekallio set?

[North Star]

I don't know, but I recall reading that Karl likes Sandór's Prokofiev:
I suggest checking this
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[Mirror Image]

As for concertos, I really like Krainev's recordings with RSO Frankfurt / Kitayenko on Teldec.

+1 My favorite set of Prokofiev PCs.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Any recommendations for picking up "Diabolique Suggestion"....?

Thins one. Accept no substitutes.



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(It's the only Prokofiev on the disc but the rest is equally good.)

[Karl Henning]

Any recommendations for picking up "Diabolique Suggestion" as well as anything else missing from the Raekallio set?

I don't know, but I recall reading that Karl likes Sandór's Prokofiev . . . .

It's true . . . and (a bit curiously, I suppose) I find that actually I have only three recordings of the Op. 4 № 4.

Will shortly give a listen, and report . . . .

[Karl Henning]

This one. Accept no substitutes.

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(* Jeevesian cough *) Perhaps, if I might suggest one possible substitute, sir:

[George]

Thins one. Accept no substitutes.



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(It's the only Prokofiev on the disc but the rest is equally good.)

Ordered! 

Thanks!