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Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-9

Matti Raekallio (piano)

Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-9

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Formidably played and well recorded, it will alert even the most seasoned listener to the conflicting elements of Prokofiev's always "difficult", prickly and volatile nature...[Raekallio] plays...

Gramophone Magazine, October 2011

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Prokofiev: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-9

Matti Raekallio (piano)

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Formidably played and well recorded, it will alert even the most seasoned listener to the conflicting elements of Prokofiev's always "difficult", prickly and volatile nature...[Raekallio] plays...

Gramophone Magazine, October 2011

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This 4-CD collector’s box features Matti Raekallio with piano solo music by Sergei Prokofiev, including a complete set of the nine Piano Sonatas.

Finnish-born pianist Matti Raekallio has built an international reputation particularly upon his reference interpretations of Prokofiev’s piano music. A prolific pedagogue, he joined in 2007 the faculty of the Juilliard School in New York, having previously held professorships at Western Michigan University, as well as in Helsinki, Stockholm, and Hanover.

Also included are the famous Ten Pieces for Piano from Romeo and Juliet, Visions fugitives, and Sarcasms, as well as further cycles and popular piano solo pieces

All recordings were previously released to highest acclaim.

Contents and tracklist

Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 1
Work length8:02
  • Matti Raekallio
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
Work length18:43
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Allegro, ma non troppo
Track length6:25
II. Scherzo. Allegro marcato
Track length2:02
III. Andante
Track length5:47
IV. Vivace
Track length4:29
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 28
Work length8:26
  • Matti Raekallio
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29
Work length17:46
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Allegro molto sostenuto
Track length5:39
II. Andante assai
Track length8:18
III. Allegro con brio, ma non leggiere
Track length3:49
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 5 in C major (original version), Op. 38
Work length16:56
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Allegro tranquillo
Track length5:47
II. Andantino
Track length5:46
III. Un poco allegretto
Track length5:23
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Work length27:17
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Allegro moderato
Track length8:54
II. Allegretto
Track length4:03
III. Tempo di valzer lentissimo
Track length7:35
IV. Vivace
Track length6:45
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83
Work length18:09
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Allegro inquieto
Track length8:06
II. Andante caloroso
Track length6:54
III. Precipitato
Track length3:09
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84
Work length29:03
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Andante dolce
Track length15:10
II. Andante sognando
Track length4:15
III. Vivace
Track length9:38
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 9 in C major, Op. 103
Work length23:26
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Allegretto
Track length7:36
II. Allegro strepitoso
Track length3:13
III. Andante tranquillo
Track length7:06
IV. Allegro con brio, ma non troppo presto
Track length5:31
Prokofiev: Four Etudes, Op. 2
Work length10:27
  • Matti Raekallio
No. 1, Allegro
Track length2:32
No. 2, Moderato
Track length2:25
No. 3, Andante semplice - Presto
Track length3:41
No. 4, Presto energico
Track length1:49
Prokofiev: Toccata in D minor, Op. 11
Work length4:14
  • Matti Raekallio
Prokofiev: Sarcasms (5), Op. 17
Work length12:15
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Tempestoso
Track length2:28
II. Allegro rubato
Track length1:16
III. Allegro precipitato
Track length1:58
IV. Smanioso
Track length3:02
V. Precipitosissimo
Track length3:31
Prokofiev: Visions fugitives, Op. 22
Work length26:05
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Lentamente
Track length1:14
II. Andante
Track length1:27
III. Allegretto
Track length1:04
IV. Animato
Track length0:54
V. Molto giocoso
Track length0:21
VI. Con eleganza
Track length0:27
VII. Pittoresco
Track length2:01
VIII. Commodo
Track length1:45
IX. Allegretto tranquillo
Track length1:07
X. Ridicolosamente
Track length1:00
XI. Con vivacita
Track length1:07
XII. Assai moderato
Track length1:17
XIII. Allegretto
Track length0:51
XIV. Feroce
Track length1:02
XV. Inquieto
Track length0:42
XVI. Dolente
Track length2:22
XVII. Poetico
Track length1:36
XVIII. Con una dolce lentezza
Track length1:59
XIX. Presto agitatissimo e molto accentuato
Track length0:42
XX. Lento irrealmente
Track length3:07
Prokofiev: Tales of an Old Grandmother, Op. 31
Work length9:44
  • Matti Raekallio
I. Moderato
Track length2:51
II. Andantino
Track length1:20
III. Andante assai
Track length2:54
IV. Sostenuto
Track length2:39
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, 10 Pieces for Piano, Op. 75
Work length4:31
  • Matti Raekallio
No. 1, Folk Dance
Track length4:31
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, 10 Pieces for Piano, Op. 75, No. 2, Scene
Work length1:27
  • Matti Raekallio
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, 10 Pieces for Piano, Op. 75
Work length26:54
  • Matti Raekallio
No. 3, Minuet
Track length2:47
No. 4, The Little Girl Juliet
Track length3:30
No. 5, Maskers
Track length2:10
No. 6, Montagues and Capulets
Track length3:47
No. 7, Friar Lawrence
Track length2:18
No. 8, Mercutio
Track length2:13
No. 9, Dance of the Antilles' Girls
Track length2:32
No. 10, Romeo and Juliet Before Parting
Track length7:37

Awards and reviews

  • Gramophone Magazine
    October 2011
    Re-issue of the Month

October 2011

Formidably played and well recorded, it will alert even the most seasoned listener to the conflicting elements of Prokofiev's always "difficult", prickly and volatile nature...[Raekallio] plays with a shot-from-guns virtuosity that carries all before it...[it] makes for compulsive listening, achieving a keen sense of "works of art that are full of glittering razor-blades" (Picasso)
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