I first learned this piece about four years ago and recently have brought it back. It's amazing how after multiple detailed studies of a work like this you can hear a recording from the composer and find a completely different meaning! I had thoughts of Russian chant rising, as if out of the depths of the earth, and mingling with the moonlight. Prokofiev's is a sinister march, more like the chant of foot soldiers headed to destruction. A powerful piece, either way. Thanks for sharing!
4:26 this section has such an otherwordly quality to it that I can´t put into words. It´s so recognizable yet bizzare. It feels like it stems from a dance of the underworld
What an eerie piece, very beautifully played. Sandor's performance of this movement is what first made me love prokofiev. Amazing recording, thanks for posting.
Brandon Hwang, Actually, this is my favorite movement among all his sonatas! And to make it even clearer how much I love this movement, you need to know that Prokofiev is my all time favorite composer. I’m a classical composer myself! Look up my site if you like!
I know, right?! I've been struggling with this piece lately, because I *knew* there were at least parts in it that I really liked, but but I could never connect with a full recording. So I decided to have a little faith in the composer, since I like him so consistently otherwise, and I starting listening to more in the last few weeks. The more I listen and look at the score, the less everything I'm hearing people do with it makes any sense... And then I find THIS! Man, I wish I could hear him play the first movement!!
There's something fundamentally simple and meaningful in his playing that's paradoxically revolutionary (actually a lost technique). Most pianists after him, beginning with Richter, gave too much thickness and stiffness to the sound, I think. You can hear a similar fresh approach in recordings by Bartók, Poulenc, Cortot, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, etc. A extremely important lesson to learn there.
That's what happens when what you want to express is very simple, but you have at your disposal lush and vaste, virtually unlimited means and resources to express it... Today, many people are troubled and have overwhelmingly complex feelings they'd like to express, but they lack the originality and creativity to express them by themselves, and have to resort to other people's works.
It's a little bit like a great writer reading his own stuff... - I love this work and Prokofiev for writing it (not only off course...) but I can imagine a much better way to play it!
I would have loved to hear him play the last movement, that's quite a smasher.
I first learned this piece about four years ago and recently have brought it back. It's amazing how after multiple detailed studies of a work like this you can hear a recording from the composer and find a completely different meaning! I had thoughts of Russian chant rising, as if out of the depths of the earth, and mingling with the moonlight. Prokofiev's is a sinister march, more like the chant of foot soldiers headed to destruction. A powerful piece, either way. Thanks for sharing!
Bring it back from the dead bud!
imo it is never accurate to assume intention of composer from the score, all we can do is to reinterpret by ourselves
If there is ONE composer, i would liketo meet in person....Prokofiev is first on the list! Thanks for uploading....this is very revealing! :)
Piano Sonata number 4 is so damn awesome! I am so thrilled to hear a recording of the master himself playing it.
4:26 this section has such an otherwordly quality to it that I can´t put into words. It´s so recognizable yet bizzare. It feels like it stems from a dance of the underworld
What an eerie piece, very beautifully played. Sandor's performance of this movement is what first made me love prokofiev. Amazing recording, thanks for posting.
I've actually turned pages for Sandor playing this piece in 1990.
My favorite movement of no. 4
Brandon Hwang, Actually, this is my favorite movement among all his sonatas! And to make it even clearer how much I love this movement, you need to know that Prokofiev is my all time favorite composer. I’m a classical composer myself! Look up my site if you like!
I actually never liked this piece under I heard Prokofiev play it. Now I love it.
I know, right?!
I've been struggling with this piece lately, because I *knew* there were at least parts in it that I really liked, but but I could never connect with a full recording. So I decided to have a little faith in the composer, since I like him so consistently otherwise, and I starting listening to more in the last few weeks. The more I listen and look at the score, the less everything I'm hearing people do with it makes any sense...
And then I find THIS!
Man, I wish I could hear him play the first movement!!
There's something fundamentally simple and meaningful in his playing that's paradoxically revolutionary (actually a lost technique). Most pianists after him, beginning with Richter, gave too much thickness and stiffness to the sound, I think. You can hear a similar fresh approach in recordings by Bartók, Poulenc, Cortot, Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, etc. A extremely important lesson to learn there.
That's what happens when what you want to express is very simple, but you have at your disposal lush and vaste, virtually unlimited means and resources to express it...
Today, many people are troubled and have overwhelmingly complex feelings they'd like to express, but they lack the originality and creativity to express them by themselves, and have to resort to other people's works.
изобразил в виде простой и понятной схемы, гармонически, мелодически, фактурно, и формой.
Это очень приятно. Мне нравится этот кусок, и композитор, очень много.
С уважением, Дэвид Харт, американский пианист / Композитор
YESSSSSSS
SEEE???
OMG!!!
The speed and polyphony is not easy
Thanks a lot, where do you get those?! ;-)
Genio. Assoluto
Wow ....
Nice
i'd be shocked if he didnt
So not easy to play
It's a little bit like a great writer reading his own stuff... -
I love this work and Prokofiev for writing it (not only off course...) but I can imagine a much better way to play it!
Really, much better? I can't imagine it, there's all the music it contains in this recording, to me ears at least.
Don t mind this comment.. ...he Is dead deaf
Well, imagination is the very thing we musicians need...😊
Vurgun daha yaxsi calir,pfff...bu nedi bele?!