普羅高菲夫: 交響協奏曲/大提琴奏鳴曲集
克里斯蒂安.波特拉 大提琴
尤霍.波赫約寧 鋼琴
安雅.比爾麥爾 指揮
(芬蘭)拉赫蒂交響樂團
The three works gathered here date from Sergei Prokofiev's last years. Despite his declining health as well as the oppressive political climate, the composer could count on the support of great
musicians, in particular the cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch. The relationship contributed to the writing of works for cello. The first was the Symphony-Concerto, an improved reworking of a much
earlier cello concerto. As in all of Prokofiev's large-scale compositions, we find striking gestures of contrast and confrontation, disturbing juxtapositions of mood, powerful rhetoric followed by
sudden passages of tender reflection.
The Sonata for Cello solo is an unfinished work: a broad and eloquent Andante is heard here in the completion by Vladimir Blok. Finally, the solemn and poetic Sonata for Cello and Piano seems like
an oasis of serenity in the midst of Soviet dictatorship. In a clear form devoid of anything that might have shocked the authorities, the work belongs to Prokofiev's best works thanks to its wealth
of melody, from beginning to end. Technical challenges are not absent, as demonstrated by the huge range of cello techniques.
Performed by Christian Poltera, these three works bear witness to Prokofiev's creative vitality in the evening of his life, expressed in a simple, clear musical language linked to a new sense of vitality in the face of adversity.
Sergei Prokofiev (1891—1953)
Symphony-Concerto for cello and Orchestra, op. 125 38''55
1 ) I. Andante 10''32
2 ) II. Allegro giusto 18''05
3 ) III. Andante con moto — Vivace — Allegretto —
Allegro marcato — Poco meno mosso 10''08
Sonata for Cello solo, op. 134 (arranged by Vladimir Blok)
4 ) I. [Andante] 7''32
Sonata for Cello and Piano, op. 119 22''35
5 ) I. Andante grave — Moderato animato —
Andante — Allegro moderato 10''14
6 ) II. Moderato — Andante dolce — Moderato primo 4''39
7 ) III. Allegro, ma non troppo — Andantino —
Allegro, ma non troppo 7''39
v cello TT: 69''48
Lahti Symphony Orchestra /Anja Bihlmaier (tracks 1—3)
Juho Pohjonen piano (tracks 5—7)