Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op.84

Vivace


  • Recorded: 27th October 2013
  • Record Place: Martinů Hall, Academy of Music Prague
  • First Release: 2014
  • (P) 2014 SUPRAPHON a.s.
  • Genre: Chamber Music

Artists

  • music by: Sergei Prokofiev
  • piano: Veronika Böhmová

Album

Veronika Böhmová

Stravinsky & Prokofiev: Piano Works

Catalogue Number: SU 4148-2
Published: 25th April 2014
Genre: Chamber Music
Format: 1 CD
Igor Stravinsky - Le chant du rossignol; Quatre études, Op. 7
Sergey Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84; Four Etudes, Op. 2

Veronika Böhmová -piano

Veronika Böhmová immediately enchants you with her sheer vivacity - both when you meet her face to face and when seeing her playing the piano. In addition to her teachers (Ivan Klánský, Arkadi Zenzipér), she has also gained experience with a number of other remarkable pianists (Berman, Béroff, Hellwig, etc.). The conductors with whom she has performed include Jiří Bělohlávek, Jakub Hrůša and Paul Goodwin. Her most significant successes are second prizes at the Maria Canals Competition in Barcelona and the Anton G. Rubinstein Wettbewerb in Dresden and progressing to the semi-final of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Following her debut at the Prague Spring and on numerous renowned stages throughout Europe, Veronika Böhmová has now made her eagerly anticipated debut recording. Like the pianist herself, the selected repertoire is unusual: besides Prokofiev's weighty "war" Sonata No. 8 and Stravinsky's fiendishly difficult piano version of Le chant du rossignol, the CD features the two Russian composers' rarely played yet brilliant etudes. The album is an exquisite delicacy served on a silver tray to real gourmets and connoisseurs.

Veronika Böhmová's debut recording - a fresh new take on Stravinsky and Prokofiev.

Reviews

“Böhmová has much fun with [the Etudes], for both sets are really spirited releases of creative energy rather than anything more serious…Böhmová also responds with great subtlety to Stravinsky's a­rrangement of his The Song of the Nightingale…An interesting and attractive record.“
Gramophone, September 2014

Igor Stravinsky
The Song of the Nichtingale (Chant du rossignol)
1. The Feast the palace at the Emperor's Palace - Chinese march 05:46
2. The Two Nightingales - Game of the Mechanical Nichtingale 06:25
3. Illnes and Recovery of the Emperor of China - Funeral March 08:44
Igor Stravinsky
Four Etudes (Quatre études), Op.7
4. Con moto 01:22
5. Allegro brillante 02:37
6. Andantino 01:34
7. Vivo 02:10
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op.84
8. Andante dolce 15:14
9. Andante sognando 04:15
10. Vivace 10:46
Sergei Prokofiev
Four Etudes, Op.2
11. No.1 in D minor - Allegro 02:25
12. No. 2 in E minor - Moderato 02:44
13. No. 3 in C minor - Andante semplice - Presto 03:30
14. No. 4 in C minor - Presto energico 01:30