Poltera / Pohjonen / Bihlmaier / Lahti Symphonieorch. -Poltera spielt Prokofjew -BIS SACD+CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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Sinfonia concertante e-moll op. 125 (für Violoncello und Orchester)

01. "1. Andante"

02. "2. Allegro giusto"

03. "3. Andante con moto - Vivace - Allegretto - Allegro marcato - Poco meno mosso"
Sonate für Violoncello solo op. 134 (arr. von Vladimir Blok)

04. "1. (Andante)"
Sonate für Violoncello und Klavier C-Dur op. 119

05. "1. Andante grave - Moderato animato - Andante - Allegro moderato"

06. "2. Moderato - Andante dolce - Moderato primo"

07. "3. Allegro, ma non troppo - Andantino - Allegro, ma non troppo"

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Poltera Plays Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto / Sonatas by Christian Poltera, released 14 June 2024. This version of Poltera Plays Prokofiev: Symphony-Concerto / Sonatas comes as a 1xSuper Audio. -

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 it's 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.

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BISSACD-2617

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