4th piano concerto (Prokofiev)
Sergei Prokofiev completed his Piano Concerto No. 4 in B flat major, opus 53, in 1931. The client was the Austrian pianist Paul Wittgenstein , but it was premiered by the pianist Siegfried Rapp on September 5, 1956 in East Berlin, the only concert after the death of the composer (apart from the posthumous Concertino op. 132 for cello and orchestra ). The four-movement work takes around 25 minutes in total.
The sentence names are
- Vivace (4–5 min)
- Andante (9–13 min)
- Moderato (8–9 min)
- Vivace (1-2 min)
occupation
In addition to the piano part only for the left hand, the work requires the following orchestral scoring:
Woodwind:
Brass:
Striking mechanism:
Strings:
- Violins , violas , cellos , double basses
music
The outer movements of the concert, i.e. the first and fourth movements, function as a kind of prelude and postlude , whereby this aftermath, the fourth movement, which lasts only one and a half minutes, is of particular musical-analytical interest because, like a reduced recapitulation , it is the basic motifs of the first movement summarized, severely shortened, and breaks off in the pianissimo of the top sound register.