プロコフィエフ: ピアノ・ソナタ第4番&第8番、他

若きヴィルトゥオーゾ、ムンドヤンツが
自編も含めたプロコフィエフに挑戦!

アルメニアのピアニスト、アレクサンドル・ムンドヤンツの愛息で1989年生まれのニキータがプロコフィエフのソナタに挑戦。彼は2007年のパデレフスキ国際ピアノ・コンクールと2016年のクリーヴランド国際ピアノ・コンクールともに優勝の実力者。作曲家としても2016年のプロコフィエフ国際作曲コンクールで優勝した才人。

今回は4番と「戦争ソナタ」の第8番。どちらも高度な技巧を要求されますが、ムンドヤンツは切れ味良い指さばきを披露。興味深いのは交響曲第5番のスケルツォ楽章をムンドヤンツ自身が2006年にピアノ用編曲したものも披露。ピアニスティックな魅力光る作品に返信しています。

さらに父に捧げた自作の「夜想曲」も収録。ショパンとプロコフィエフの影響に加え、アメリカのミニマルミュージックの要素も感じられる興味深い作品です。
キングインターナショナル

Pianist Nikita Mndoyants seems to be emerging as a Prokofiev specialist, with a fine recording of the Sarcasms, Op. 17, on an earlier recital and now an album completely dedicated to Prokofiev except for a short composition of Mndoyants own. The main attraction here is the comparatively rare Piano Sonata No. 4, Op. 29 ("From Old Notebooks"), which Prokofiev wrote during World War I; its gloomy tone is due less to that event than to the suicide of the composers friend. Sample the first movement, where the pianist is forced to inhabit the instruments lower reaches. Mndoyants is especially effective here, clarifying the murky lines but not losing their stream-of-consciousness quality; the music has the flavor of spontaneous recollection. In the big and more common Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84, Mndoyants holds steady with his contemplative tone. This is a bit unusual in this monumental work, which is conventionally grouped with Prokofievs War Sonatas even though evidence suggests he began writing it before the Soviet Union entered World War II. Mndoyants remains clear and detailed. He saves the virtuoso display for a transcription, his own, of the second-movement Allegro from the Symphony No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 100. Mndoyants own little Nocturne is an effective entracte, fitting the overall contemplative mood of the album. Aparte contributes a resonant church acoustic from the Eglise Sainte Pierre in Paris, which normally would be inimical to a composer with the dry precision of Prokofiev, but here, it serves Mndoyants inward mood fairly well. An important new Prokofiev release. ~ James Manheim