{"id":44938,"date":"2024-07-09T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dff82363-63ab-4bf5-9cae-0e76c895edf3"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T10:36:07","slug":"poltera-plays-prokofiev","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/poltera-plays-prokofiev\/","title":{"rendered":"Polt\u00e9ra plays Prokofiev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Tuesday, 09 July 2024 at 10:12 AM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p><em>Jo Talbot\u00a0<\/em>enjoys cellist Christian Polt\u00e9ra\u2019s honeyed tones in this glowing Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto<\/p><p><strong>Prokofiev<\/strong><br\/>Symphony-Concerto; Sonata, Op. 134; Sonata, Op. 119* (Polt\u00e9ra plays Prokofiev)<br\/>Christian Polt\u00e9ra (cello), *Juho Pohjonen (piano); Lahti Symphony Orchestra\/Anja Bihlmaier<br\/><em>BIS BIS-2617\u00a0\u00a0\u00a069:48 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2024\/07\/REVIEWS-CONCERTO-CHOICE-Prokofiev-Symphony-Concerto.mp3\"\/><\/figure><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/sergey-prokofiev\">Prokofiev<\/a>\u2019s Symphony-Concerto is one of the most taxing works in the repertoire, running into 31 pages of high tessitura invention, acrobatic arpeggio figuration, tortuous double and triple stops and pages of wildly modulating scalic passages. <\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-concerto\">What is a concerto?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Alongside that are his trademark swooningly heart-wrenching melodies whose captivating qualities make the industry of learning the work all the more worthwhile.\u00a0<\/p><p>Plenty of heavy-hitters have recorded the work with some success. Inevitably, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/mstislav-rostropovich\">Rostropovich<\/a>\u2019s personality looms large, as he was so pivotal in its creative process. <\/p><p>But Christian Polt\u00e9ra\u2019s playing holds up well to such stellar competition, and is certainly helped by BIS\u2019s lucid recording. His 1711 Mara Stradivari positively glows with honeyed tones, and is particularly winning in the high register lyrical melodies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/instruments\/what-stradivarius\">What is a Stradivarius?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>Polt\u00e9ra follows the tempo instruction of the opening\u00a0<em>Andante\u00a0<\/em>to the letter, which seems leisurely in comparison to some other versions.\u00a0\u00a0Yet this allows for more dramatic impact in the ensuing movements. <\/p><p>The\u00a0<em>Allegro giusto<\/em>\u00a0positively tears along before the coaxing melody brings repose and winning tenderness. A ferociously challenging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/musical-terms\/what-is-a-cadenza\">cadenza<\/a> in double stops follows, and Polt\u00e9ra shapes this well, whilst the third movement lightens the mood. <\/p><p>The Lahti Symphony Orchestra under Anja Bihlmaier are particularly brilliant partners bringing incisive texturing and purposeful voice leading to the orchestral part.<\/p><p>The performance of the Op. 119 Cello Sonata is equally impressive; Juho Pohjonen is an excellent foil.\u00a0<em>Jo Talbot<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Tuesday, 09 July 2024 at 10:12 AM Jo Talbot\u00a0enjoys cellist Christian Polt\u00e9ra\u2019s honeyed tones in this glowing Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto ProkofievSymphony-Concerto; Sonata, Op. 134; Sonata, Op. 119* (Polt\u00e9ra plays Prokofiev)Christian Polt\u00e9ra (cello), *Juho Pohjonen (piano); Lahti Symphony Orchestra\/Anja BihlmaierBIS BIS-2617\u00a0\u00a0\u00a069:48 mins\u00a0 Prokofiev\u2019s Symphony-Concerto is one of the most taxing works in the repertoire, running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":44939,"template":"","categories":[1,80,19],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/07\/poltera-plays-prokofiev.jpg",900,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/07\/poltera-plays-prokofiev-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/07\/poltera-plays-prokofiev-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/07\/poltera-plays-prokofiev-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/07\/poltera-plays-prokofiev.jpg",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/07\/poltera-plays-prokofiev.jpg",900,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/07\/poltera-plays-prokofiev.jpg",900,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Tuesday, 09 July 2024 at 10:12 AM Jo Talbot\u00a0enjoys cellist Christian Polt\u00e9ra\u2019s honeyed tones in this glowing Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto ProkofievSymphony-Concerto; Sonata, Op. 134; Sonata, Op. 119* (Polt\u00e9ra plays Prokofiev)Christian Polt\u00e9ra (cello), *Juho Pohjonen (piano); Lahti Symphony Orchestra\/Anja BihlmaierBIS BIS-2617\u00a0\u00a0\u00a069:48 mins\u00a0 Prokofiev\u2019s Symphony-Concerto is one of the most taxing works in the repertoire, running&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/44938"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}