Nathalia Milstein, the pianist on this album, was born in 1995 into a family of musicians and began playing piano at age 4 with her father, Serguei Milstein.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Sergei Prokofiev and Maurice Ravel, though using the language of their predecessors, reinvented it to achieve the maximum point of tonal harmonic language, combining lyricism, romanticism, and realism.
Historical Context
All the works on this album were composed between 1906 and 1917, a turbulent period marked by the First World War and the Russian Revolution.
Composition History
Prokofiev's Piano Sonata no.4 op.29 is dedicated to the memory of Maximilian Anatolyevich Schmidthof, a fellow student who committed suicide in 1913.
Performer Biography
Nathalia Milstein launched her international career by winning 1st Prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition in May 2015.
Composition History
Maurice Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin was completed in 1917 after he returned to composition following his service in the ambulance corps during WWI and his mother's death.
Composition History
Prokofiev's 10 Pieces for Piano op.12 are youthful works, some originally written for other instruments like harp or four bassoons, which he later adapted for piano.
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