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Duo Gazzana - Prokofiev, Pärt, Schnittke (album trailer)
The Duo Gazzana's new album with works by Prokofiev, Pärt and Schnittke is out now: https://ecm.lnk.to/ProkofievSchnittkePart
The duo's reading of Prokofiev's Sonata No. 1, op. 80 opens the proceedings with urgency, true to the composer's intention (Prokofiev famously declared that a particular passage "should sound in such a way that people should jump in their seat…"), but also with lyrical serenity, casting the work's third movement in a spellbinding light. His Five Melodies op. 35a are inte