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Cover: Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Sonatas Nos. 4-6

Sergei Prokofiev

Piano Sonatas Nos. 4-6

Matti Raekallio, piano

ODE 761-2 · CD · April 1991

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Track listing

10 tracks · 61:17

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Sergei Prokofiev

  1. Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29 ("from the old notebooks") 17:36
  2. 1 I. Allegro molto sostenuto 5:36
  3. 2 II. Andante assai 8:16
  4. 3 III. Allegro con brio, ma non leggiere 3:40
  5. Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major (original version), Op. 38 16:49
  6. 4 I. Allegro tranquillo 5:43
  7. 5 II. Andantino 5:43
  8. 6 III. Un poco allegretto 5:15
  9. Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82 ("War Sonata I") 27:16
  10. 7 I. Allegro moderato 8:50
  11. 8 II. Allegretto 3:59
  12. 9 III. Tempo di valzer lentissimo 7:31
  13. 10 IV. Vivace 6:44

About this recording

This CD is the third volume in a cycle featuring Matti Raekallio with the complete piano sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev. It contains the sonatas nos. 4, 5 (original version op. 38 of 1923) & 6.

Matti Raekallio is one of Finland's foremost pianists and numbers among the most sought after pedagogues internationally. For this release, he also provided the liner notes.

The complete series is available as a boxed set (ODE947-3T), hailed by Fanfare Magazine in 1991 as, "the most proficient, intelligent and compelling Prokofiev sonata cycle I've heard!"

Features

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish

Press

This impeccably recorded disc is strongly recommended.
Arved Ashby, American Record Guide, July/August 1992

A discographic coup (...) that marks Raekallio as a major pianistic talent.
Peter J. Rabinowitz, Fanfare Magazine, November/December 1991

The artists

Matti Raekallio

Born in Helsinki in 1954, Matti Raekallio studied in his home country of Finland, as well as with Maria Curcio in London, Dieter Weber at the Vienna Academy of Music, and at the Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) Conservatory. He has been an active concert performer, making his American debut in 1981 at the Carnegie (Weill) Recital Hall. Since then, he has made regular tours of the US, including solo recitals and performances with several American orchestras. He has performed complete cycles of the 32 Beethoven Sonatas, the 10 Scriabin Sonatas, and the 9 Prokofiev Sonatas, as well as a total of 62 piano concertos. He has made approximately 20 albums for Ondine.

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