Prokofiev; Scriabin Piano Sonatas
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Composer or Director: Alexander Scriabin, Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Dux Recordings
Magazine Review Date: 3/2008
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 62
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: DUX0389
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Piano No. 1 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
(24) Preludes, Movement: D, Op. 23/4 |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
(24) Preludes, Movement: G sharp minor, Op. 32/12 |
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer
Sergey Rachmaninov, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 2, 'Sonata-fantasy' |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 7 |
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer
Sergey Prokofiev, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
Composer or Director: Federico Mompou, Mark Saya, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt
Genre:
Instrumental
Label: Dux Recordings
Magazine Review Date: 3/2008
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 50
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: DUX0487
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Variations on a Nocturne by Chopin |
Robert Schumann, Composer
Robert Schumann, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
(6) Chants polonais (Chopin) |
Franz Liszt, Composer
Franz Liszt, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
(12) Variations sur un thème de Chopin |
Federico Mompou, Composer
Federico Mompou, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
Seven Preludes Revisited - Transformations of Chopin Preludes |
Mark Saya, Composer
Mark Saya, Composer Wojciech Kocyan, Piano |
Author: Jed Distler
“Reflets dans Chopin” surveys two centuries’ worth of homages to the master. It opens with the first recording of Schumann’s Variations on Chopin’s G minor Nocturne, Op 15 No 3, reconstructed from incomplete autograph sources by Joachim Draheim. The restless keyboard patterns run themselves into the ground rather than soar as they often do when Schumann is inspired. Although Kocyan has technique to burn, he downplays the flashy aspects of Liszt’s six Polish Song arrangements, stressing poetry and nuance through his speech-like phrasing of trills, mordents and other decorative gestures. At the same time, he doesn’t hesitate to unleash the left-hand tidal waves in “Narzeczony”.
Kocyan proves equally sympathetic to Mompou’s urbane, almost jazzy idiom as he is with Mark Saya’s inventive deconstructions of seven Preludes, where the wide interval displacements and quick-draw dynamic extremes resemble the lovechild of Chopin and Boulez. Whether you choose this disc for interesting programming or go with the Russian anthology for musical substance, don’t miss out on this musicianly, highly individual and simply wonderful pianist. He’s the real thing.
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