Alexandre Dossin - Prokofiev: Childhood Manuscripts (2017)

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01. Old Grandmother's Tales, Op. 31: I. Moderato
02. Old Grandmother's Tales, Op. 31: II. Andantino
03. Old Grandmother's Tales, Op. 31: III. Andante assai
04. Old Grandmother's Tales, Op. 31: IV. Sostenuto
05. 6 Pieces, Op. 52: No. 1, Intermezzo
06. 6 Pieces, Op. 52: No. 2, Rondo
07. 6 Pieces, Op. 52: No. 3, Étude
08. 6 Pieces, Op. 52: No. 4, Scherzino
09. 6 Pieces, Op. 52: No. 5, Andante
10. 6 Pieces, Op. 52: No. 6, Scherzo
11. Tarantella in D Minor
12. Little Songs, Series 2: No. 7, Melody in E-Flat Major
13. Little Songs, Series 3: No. 4, Presto in C Major
14. Little Songs, Series 3: No. 7, March IV in F Major
15. Little Songs, Series 3: No. 8, Vivo in G Minor
16. Little Songs, Series 4: No. 2, Romance III in D Minor
17. Little Songs, Series 4: No. 3, Allegretto in A Minor
18. Little Songs, Series 4: No. 5, Allegretto in C Minor
19. Little Songs, Series 4: No. 6, Allegro in A-Flat Major
20. Little Songs, Series 4: No. 11, Minuet in F Minor
21. Little Songs, Series 5: No. 2, Scherzo in C Major
22. Little Songs, Series 5: No. 4, Allegro non troppo in D Minor
23. Little Songs, Series 5: No. 5, Waltz in G Minor
24. Little Songs, Series 5: No. 6, March in F Minor
25. Little Songs, Series 5: No. 7, Prestissimo in C Major
26. Little Songs, Series 5: No. 12, Étude-Scherzo in C Major
27. Examination Fugue in D Major
28. Scherzo in D Major

Sergey Prokofiev was so musically precocious that no less a figure than Reinhold Glière was employed as his live-in tutor. Glière’s lessons proved to be both rigorous and inspiring and the young Prokofiev wrote a delightful sequence of works for the piano. Revealing an increasing command of harmony, these miniatures show why he was, at the age of thirteen, the youngest ever student to be enrolled at the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Old Grandmother’s Tales, Op. 31, written in New York in 1918, is suffused with nostalgia, while the Six Pieces, Op. 52 are vivid arrangements of some of his earlier works.

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