Prokofiev produced three Sonatas called the War Sonatas No 6, 7 & 8, which mark the peak of his output for piano solo. The SIXTH, the most monumental of the three, was inspired... by a reading of Romain Rollands book on Beethoven. But the model of Beethovens humanism could be no more than a chimerical vision to Prokofiev considering the reality he saw around him... It is of this reality and of the man confronted with it that the SIXTH SONATA speaks. Prokofiev himself gave the first performance of the work, but it was the interpretation of Sviatoslav Richter, aged 24 at the time, that it really became a part of musical history. With a barbaric boldness the composer breaks with romantic ideals and animates his music with the devastating pulsations of the 20th century.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 06:07:22 +0000
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