Prokofiev's op.38 and op.135: Crowning the opus

From: Musical Times | Date: April 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

FIONA WALSH re-evaluates the two versions of the Russian master's Fifth Piano Sonata

PROKOFIEV'S NINE PIANO SONATAS have never been his best-known or most deeply appreciated works, and the Fifth Sonata has been possibly the least performed and discussed of all. Although the composer himself looked back on the work in its original version, at least, as 'intricate' in style, and one of his `most chromatic' essays,1 its expressive character has been variously described by other critics in terms ranging from one end of the interpretative spectrum to the other - unaffectedly simple, ...

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