Joined by Stanford pianists Kumaran Arul and George Barth, Alexander Toradze and Joseph Horowitz explore Prokofiev, the man and artist. What can be learned from Prokofiev’s own recordings of his piano music—including the Visions fugitive, which Arul will also offer in live performance, and the Piano Concerto No. 3, of which Toradze’s recording was once voted “the best of all time” in International Piano Quarterly?
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November 1, 2009
Sergei Prokofiev was a Russian composer who lived through tumultuous historical events. He was born in 1891, and during his youth music teetered between the so-called
“Romantic” and “modern” periods. Following the Russian Revolution of 1918, he moved first to the U.S., then to Europe. For reasons that still bewilder scholars, he chose to return to the U.S.S.R. in the mid-1930s, despite iron-fisted Soviet censorship of the arts; he died in 1953 in Moscow. Prokofiev’s compositional output reflects the diversity of these stylistic and political circumstances. More »
