Description: Vadym Kholodenko Plays Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 [O-Ring Package] [CD] Track Listing: 1-4 Piano Sonate no. 6 en la majeur, Op. 825-6 Things in Themselves [Choses en soi], Op. 457-10 Four Pieces / Quatre pieces de danse Op. 3211-30 Visions fugitives Op. 22Following up on his acclaimed recordings of Prokofiev's piano concertos, Vadym Kholodenko offers more music by his favorite composer. The solo works assembled here reveal several facets of Prokofiev. He was an outstanding melodist - a 'classicist' on the fringes of the avant-garde and eventually the herald of a Soviet realism that was anything but servile. The freedom peculiar to the composer-pianist 'with fingers of steel' is brought out in all it's vitality by the subtle, yet never showy, playing of this Ukrainian artist. --- Pianist Vadym Kholodenko is emerging as a Prokofiev specialist with a cycle of the piano concertos with the Fort Worth Symphony and now this recital of solo piano music on Harmonia Mundi. The program has an unusual and satisfying dynamic, beginning with the taut and serious Piano Sonata No. 6 in A minor, Op. 82. This was the first of Prokofiev's so-called "War Sonatas." Written in 1939, it definitely conveys the feeling of a world on the edge. Kholodenko's playing is clean and crisp, but one misses the tension that has sometimes been brought to these sonatas. From there, the program lightens, and there are some gems. Things in Themselves, Op. 45, inspired by no less than Immanuel Kant, is a pair of short pieces that are really sui generis. The mood lightens further with the Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 32, in a neoclassic vein, and becomes evanescent with the tiny Visions Fugitives, Op. 22, which Kholodenko handles with charismatic elegance. It's a strong recital, very nicely recorded at the Médiapôle Saint-Césaire in Arles. ~ James Manheim, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
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Artist: Vadym Kholodenko, Kholodenko, Vadym
Type: Album
Format: CD
Language: English
Record Label: Harmonia Mundi
Release Year: 2020
Release Title: Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.6
Case Type: Jewel Case: Standard with O-Ring Package
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Instrument: Piano
Features: Sealed
Genre: Classical
