Prokofiev's early music, with its metallic dissonances and percussive style, was accused of "coarseness" and "football style" by some, while gaining a loyal following among modernists.
Performer Biography
Stefania Argentieri, the pianist on this album, graduated with highest marks in piano at the Conservatory "T. Schipa" in Lecce, Italy, before the age of twenty.
Composition History
The Six Pieces from Cinderella, Op. 102, are piano reworkings drawn from the 50 parts of Prokofiev's ballet Cinderella, Op. 87, which was created in 1945.
Composer Biography
Sergei Prokofiev, a pupil of Liadov, Tcherepnin, and Rimsky-Korsakov, appeared on the Russian and international music scene at a very young age.
Compositional Technique
Prokofiev's tonal music often features "wrong notes," with seemingly unjustifiable displacement by semitone or tritone of diatonic sounds, creating suspended dissonances and tonal deviations.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Prokofiev's music is characterized by a return to tonality, creating a mutable neo-tonality balanced between altered tonal courses and corroded tonal structures.
Recording & Production
This recording was made at Teatro Giuseppe Curci, Barletta, Italy, between July 4-8, 2019, using a Steinway Model D274 piano.
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