Lisa Smirnova Live at the Concertgebouw

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Paladino Music

3 Νοεμβρίου 2016

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Ludwig van Beethoven:Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Sergei Sergeievitch Prokofiev:Piano Sonata No. 8 in B flat major, Op. 84

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Lisa Smirnova (Piano)

“A year ago, I received a mysterious email: I was asked for my approval for a commercial release of some older recordings that was to be distributed internationally. What’s more, this request was made by a Dutch firm that by all appearances seemed to have been active on the market for all of one week. The release was to consist of excerpts from performances given at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the recordings of which had been wasting away in the archive of a Dutch radio station. I thought, well, it’s at least good of them to ask the performers beforehand, so that the whole thing could be stopped should it be necessary. At the same time, the opportunity naturally presented itself to resurvey these past recordings from a new perspective. It soon became apparent that, as when one sorts the wheat from the chaff, the newest material is not necessarily the best. And with that, the idea for the present release was born. The selection of two late sonatas by Prokofiev and Beethoven was obvious, but inevitably, I was forced to ask myself how exactly these two works were related, if at all. In my opinion, they are in fact very closely related: not only for the reason that in Prokofiev’s music one almost always finds the same sort of classical transparency and consciousness of form that controls it, which are so typical of Beethoven’s music, but to an even greater extent, it is the narrative force of the music that forms the distinguishing characteristic of these two particular sonatas – with the language of music, both composers, from an authorial perspective, portray life itself in a nearly “epic” fashion. It’s no coincidence that these two works have played an important role in my life; they have accompanied me ever since beginning my studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in the early 1990s. Filled with impatience and drive, I wanted to climb the “musical Everest” right away and avoid getting held up by any detours. Luckily, I had my teacher, Professor Karl- Heinz Kämmerling, to accompany me on this path, and his guidance doubtlessly saved me from multiple broken bones. He was an incomparable mentor, who, beyond all musical craftsmanship, taught us to always believe in ourselves. He also learned with us together to accept other people for who they are, with all their quirks. Beethoven’s last sonata, Op. 111, was his favorite. That the sonata is one of those works, to whose greatness one’s interpretation can never really do justice, does not of course make things any easier. But perhaps it is precisely the incentive to live up to the greatness of the work that makes the attempt to master it so exciting, time and time again. The present recording is truly a “genuine” live recording. Neither does it contain material from a more cautiously recorded dress rehearsal, nor has it been “improved” with corrections recorded quickly after the performance, as is commonplace. This is the first time I have decided to release a recording like this, one that is truly “unedited,” as in life, where there are no dress rehearsals. It is almost certainly this quality that gives the recording its integrity.”

Lisa Smirnova, 2016