Sergei Prokofiev plays Prokofiev

Prokofiev Toccata in D minor Op.11
Piano roll.

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• prokofiev
• toccata
• piano

[timtom29]

looks like himmler from the ss

[truecrypt]

@timtom29

And Jared Lougher looks like Uncle Fester... so what?

[maynrdjkeenan]

I'm not sure if I like this better at a slower tempo or not, it's almost like a different piece. The faster version sounds frantic, horrifying...while with just 20-30 BPM difference it sounds dazed, confused, like someone pawing around on the ground for their dropped glasses.  However it's played, this is surely his magnum opus if you ask me.

[FeminiteEtAmour]

Yes the emotions within this piece are so amazing and mental indeed

[leitfie3579]

I should have said, in my earlier comment, that the sound quality on this is really very good, which helps a lot.

[leitfie3579]

Am I alone in finding some, if not most, of the very fast versions of this dull? Structurally, rhythmically and harmonically it is a terrific piece, and if played only for velocity it can become just a series of (technically very impressive) notes. It takes a really special pianist to combine speed with musicality - and there have been one or two, I know. That said, Prokofiev himself is slow ...... and yet, you hear everything, and the musical value of the piece can come across.

[WAMEDJO]

@BachScholar

I find it a bit slow though. He seems to hesitate sometimes.

[SWeston45]

I love the way he plays it. It sounds absolutely perfect.

[ansonyeung825]

@ibclappin that the speed that he wants

[wizarda7x]

Ok so this may not relate to this piece but question about music if anyone would know O.o what do you call a SONG that an artist writes about him/her self??? It\s not technically an autobiography and self portraits refer to painters soo what is it called in song form and instrumentals???

[acr08807]

@cheradinine8 When I was a music major, my first two compositions were "Symphonie Sans Son" and a concerto for alpenhorn featuring 64th notes. My professors claimed that nobody could play either one (showing that they cannot rise above the confines of tradition, or imagine that in the future, alpenhornists will grow in virtuosity). Anyway, that's why I became a scientist. Probably a good thing for the world of music, if not for the world of science.

[acr08807]

@cheradinine8 If Prokofiev said it was in C major, then he lied. But I'll grant that B natural appears in the piece almost as much as B flat does, so he could have scored it in C major without wasting much ink. Thanks for the waltz story, I wasn't aware of that. Pretty cool.

[cheradinine8]

@acr08807 Prokofiev had a fairly loose attitude to key signatures... His very first piano work at 8 years was a waltz in B flat without the B flat...It is probably fortunate that he started as close to C as D... Prokofiev himself said it was C major ( for strict accuracy let us say sort of in C , but definitely not in D minor )...:-)

[acr08807]

@cheradinine8 In the first 4 bars, the only note is D. The next 2 bars alternate C chords with octaves in D. Then back to all D for 2 bars. 2 more bars with C chords alternating with octaves in D. Then back to all D for 2 bars.  The next alternates chords in E with D octaves. Then we get a bar that starts with C and E flat for the first chord, then back to the octaves in D for three bars. Then C chords alternating with D octaves for 4 bars. I wouldn't exactly call that starting in C.