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Date: | Tue, 14 Sep 1999 13:15:27 -0400 |
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Hi, My name is Martin and... I have decided not to participate so much in
the list because I prefer contemporary music.
I'm just a Prokofiev's fan... He is absolutely TERRIFIC. His symphonies,
his ballets, his operas, his concertos, his sonatas... I have 90% of his
works and I think that he had an inexhaustibly imagination and a power
and...humor. About Rachmaninov, well, He was a very late romantic,
melancholic and he kept more or less the same style all the time.
Prokofiev was changing... "enfant terrible" a bit diabolic (The fiery
angel)...
Their things in common are so little... Both were called Sergei and both
played piano.
I could speak about Prokofiev a lifetime, a bit less about Rachmaninov...We
are not speaking about the same kind of composer. Think about the
Prokofiev's first period (before trying to adapt to a more popular style):
The gambler, the fiery angel, Love for 3 oranges and three chaotic
symphonies... Great! Great! Better (for me) than his later works more
measured, more "popular"...because of the pressures
Regards,
Martin Pitchon
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