Category: Solo

• Sergei and Sergei

  November 11, 2012

  Choral, Opera, Orchestral, Piano music, Solo, Tone Poem, Vocal

  Maybe they don’t really belong together; Sergei I (Rachmaninov) was eighteen when Sergei II (Prokofiev) was born. Their music is certainly very different: Rachmaninov’s deeply rooted in the romantic tradition; the young Prokofiev’s iconoclastic – the music of an enfant terrible. And yet, in the early days, they seemed to shadow one another: both were virtuoso…