A suite of twenty short and richly varied movements for Piano solo by Sergei Prokofiev. Shifting from gentle and lilting to violent and highly challenging this suite of pieces is required repertoire for the serious Piano player offering beautiful melodies and virtuosic performance drama.
SKU: HL.51481158
UPC: 196288209164. 9.0x12.0x0.172 inches.
Prokofiev did not compose his Visions fugitives ?? 20 ??fleeting visions? ?? in one go, but in clusters between 1915 and 1917, immediately before the Russian Revolution that compelled him to leave his native country in 1918. We know from his diaries that at least some of them owe their existence to extra-musical impulses. Thus several pieces were inspired by people close to him. Others impart his emotional reaction to the political situation with its menacing brutality. According to his own statement, for example, no. 19 ??was inspired by the events of February 1917 in Petrograd?, during the Revolution's first phase. Technically the pieces are not too demanding, and are also often used in teaching. They now appear for the first time in an Urtext edition that considers all the musical sources created during the composer's lifetime. In his preface, Prokofiev specialist Simon Morrison provides biographical context for the genesis of this fantastic piano cycle.
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SKU: AP.36-M273691
UPC: 660355089602. English.
"Visions fugitives" is a cycle of 20 piano miniatures written between 1915 and 1917, many for friends of the composer. The miniatures are vignette-like, and the overall effect is Impressionist in style.
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SKU: HL.48010879
UPC: 073999239799. 9.0x12.0x0.11 inches.
The eight pieces in this volume have been selected from the set of twenty which Prokofieff completed in 1917 for piano solo. They are predominantly lyrical in character, and every one is an example of Prokofieff's great gift for creating simple but astonishingly fresh and characterful music.
SKU: HL.48018230
UPC: 073999182309. 9.0x12.0x0.114 inches.
Piano Solo.
SKU: HL.50490833
ISBN 9784111606320.
