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Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer.(Book review)
Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer. By Boris Berman. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. [xiii, 240 p. ISBN-13: 9780300114904. $35.| Illustrations, music examples, bibliographic references, indexes.
As appealing to the casual listener as they are rewarding to the serious performer, the nine piano sonatas of Sergei Prokofiev offer material aplenty for a book-length study. In them, one encounters thrilling feats of virtuosity side-by-side with passages of earnest simplicity, heartfelt lyricism combined with intense rhythmic vitality and formal inventiveness, and the composer's trademark stylistic wit put to effective use ...
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