Lugansky - Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2

Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 16 (1912-1913; lost during the Russian Revolution of 1917, the score was rewritten by Prokofiev in 1923-1924.)

Nikolai Lugansky, soliste
Marko Letonja conducting l’Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, 2019

I. Andantino - Allegretto [0:00]
II. Scherzo. Vivace [12:58]
III. Intermezzo. Allegro moderato [15:41]
IV. Finale. Allegro tempestoso [23:12]
"When you are writing a concerto, if you conceive of it as a combination of piano and orchestra, the pianistic side of the solo part will always suffer….

“What would be the ideal way to compose a concerto? It occurred to me today that it would certainly be interesting for a pianist to be presented with a concerto that had its origin in a technically challenging sonata and subsequently been transformed into a concerto. The solo part would be bound to be interesting pianistically, while the sonata itself would benefit by the reinforcement and embellishment of a skillfully added orchestral texture.”

- from the diary entries of Sergey Prokofiev, translated by Anthony Phillips

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