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Release Date: Wednesday 20 May 2020
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The Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni, winner of the 2018 Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition, has selected a programme that spans the 20th century. The first book of Debussy's Images offers poetic evocation and virtuoso caprice, whereas Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 6, completed in 1940, is the first of his 'War Sonatas', characteristically contrasting rhythmic vitality with rich lyricism. Ginastera, too, supplies vivid intensity in his Piano Sonata No. 1 suggesting the sound of the guitar, while Ligeti's Étude is a Debussyian evocation of a rainbow.
Debussy:
Images, Book 1 [3 excerpts]
Ginastera:
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22
Ligeti:
Études, Book 1: No. 5. Arc-en-ciel
Prokofiev:
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82