Artist: Nikita Mndoyants
Album: Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 4 & 8, Scherzo – Mndoyants: Nocturne
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2024
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:04:08
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 1,00 GB

Tracklist:

1-01. Nikita Mndoyants – Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29: I. Allegro molto sostenuto (06:06)
1-02. Nikita Mndoyants – Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29: II. Andante assai (07:05)
1-03. Nikita Mndoyants – Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 29: III. Allegro con brio ma non leggiere (03:48)
1-04. Nikita Mndoyants – Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, Op. 100: II. Allegro marcato (Transc. for Piano by Nikita Mndoyants) (08:08)
1-05. Nikita Mndoyants – Nocturne (08:44)
1-06. Nikita Mndoyants – Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major, Op. 84: I. Andante dolce – Allegro moderato (15:05)
1-07. Nikita Mndoyants – Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major, Op. 84: II. Andante sognando (04:18)
1-08. Nikita Mndoyants – Piano Sonata No. 8 in B-Flat Major, Op. 84: III. Vivace (10:49)

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Pianist Nikita Mndoyants devotes this recording to Prokofiev, whose music has accompanied him since his early days. Here he brings together the Fourth Sonata ‘From Old Notebooks’ and the Eighth, an integral part of the so-called ‘War Sonatas’, as well as an arrangement of the scherzo from the Fifth Symphony.

Nikita Mndoyants thus gives us an insight into the composer’s different facets, and a measure of the richness of a language that combines exceptional virtuosity, a sense of enchantment and biting irony.

In counterpoint, Nikita Mndoyants records a Nocturne for piano written by himself, continuing the Russian tradition of pianist-composers and following in the footsteps of Russia’s ‘enfant terrible’.