Natalya Poznyakovskaya et al. - 11 March, 1914, in the afternoon
from Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 11 March 1914, page 617:
At one o'clock Yesipova telephoned without warning and asked me to go over and play the whole programme through to her. She sat out of sight in an adjoining room, while Kalantarova and Poznyakovskaya ran in and out playing the part of emissaries coveying pronouncements from on high. For my part I was glad to have the chance to play it all to her, because I was still not completely sure about my gradations of tempo in the Beethoven sonata, also about my treatment of the semiquavers in the Bach fugue (the rhythm is maintained the whole time from start to finish). Were they perhaps too … more >>
Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Prokofiev diaries: 11 March 1914. In Anthony Phillips (ed.), Sergey Prokofiev diaries 1907-1914 (Ithaca N.Y, 2006), p. 617. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1450108565748 accessed: 11 December, 2024
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Etude No. 3
written by Sergei Prokofiev |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev |
Fugue
written by Johann Sebastian Bach, Laura Kahrer |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev |
Piano Sonata
written by Ludwig van Beethoven |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev |
Tannhäuser-Fantasy
written by Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner |
performed by Sergei Prokofiev |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 11 March, 1914, in the afternoon |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, solitary |
Notes
Yesipova, S.P.'s piano professor, had been unwell for several months. Here, she appears to have been listening to his recital programme from her sick-bed and deputing her two (female) teaching assistants, former students Kalantarova and Poznyakovskaya, to pass on her comments and criticisms.