PROKOFIEV

 

Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

 

Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16;

Piano Concerto No.3 in C major, Op.26;

Piano Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.14

 

Freddy Kempf, piano

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra / Andrew Litton

 

Freddy Kempf’s 2003 Prokofiev solo recital was described as ‘a superb disc’ in Gramophone, whose critic went on to write: ‘Kempf is joyfully exuberant, flashing through every savage challenge with the assurance and instinct of a born virtuoso.’

 

Kempf, Litton and the Bergen PO now join forces in an all-Prokofiev programme that includes the most popular of his five piano concertos, namely the Third, a spontaneous work, vigorous and melodic in turns and full of striking material presented in a typical Prokofiev manner. This is coupled with the Second Piano Concerto, which Prokofiev himself premièred in 1913, shocking the audience with its modernistic sounds and jagged rhythms.

 

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