Debussy, Prokofiev, Barber

Featuring

Konstantin Emelyanov
Claude Debussy
Sergei Prokofiev
Samuel Barber

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Album & Artwork

The album's concept explores the transition between musical eras, focusing on how artists seek new expressions while preserving the best of past traditions.

Compositional Technique

Prokofiev's Visions fugitives are extremely concise miniatures, often portraying only a fragment of an image, and are the only one of his works where Debussy's influence is clearly felt.

Compositional Technique

Samuel Barber's Piano Sonata incorporates elements from Baroque and Classical periods, such as a fugue in the finale and polyphonic writing, while also embracing 20th-century innovations like chromatic tonality and dodecaphony.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in the Grand Hall of The Moscow Conservatory between April 28 and May 3, 2022, using a Yamaha CFX concert grand piano.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Debussy reinterpreted the prelude genre, making each piece an independent work that conveys a specific image, feeling, or state, often subjectively, akin to Impressionist paintings.

Album & Artwork

The album's structure is designed to reflect the principles of photographic manifestation, moving from blurred forms to clearer, more objective musical language.

Performer Biography

Konstantin Emelyanov, the pianist on this album, chose Samuel Barber's piano music, specifically his Piano Sonata, as the topic for his diploma dissertation at the Moscow Conservatory.