Prokofiev, Mndoyants

Description

Pianist Nikita Mndoyants devotes this recording to Prokofiev, whose music has accompanied him since his beginnings. 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 allows us to appreciate the different facets of the composer and to measure the richness of a language where exceptional virtuosity, a sense of enchantment, and biting irony are interwoven. As a counterpoint, Nikita Mndoyants records a piano nocturne of his own composition, extending the Russian tradition of pianist-composers and following in the footsteps of Russia's "enfant terrible."