Cerdanyenca Mark Prihodko & Viktoria Korolionok

• Marc Migó (b .1993): Sonata Cerdanyenca:
• 1 Migó: Sonata Cerdanyenca: I. Al Cap del Ras 05:45
• 2 Migó: Sonata Cerdanyenca: II. Aloja 06:57
• 3 Migó: Sonata Cerdanyenca: III. Intermezzo i Cadència 07:50
• 4 Migó: Sonata Cerdanyenca: IV. Excursions 05:55
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): Romance:
• 5 Rachmaninoff: Romance 06:33
• Hungarian Dance:
• 6 Rachmaninoff: Hungarian Dance 05:16
• Marc Migó: Romança Melòdica:
• 7 Migó: Romança Melòdica 02:42
• Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931): Sonata Op.28:
• 8 Ysaÿe: Sonata Op.28: I. Grave - Lento e molto sostenuto 04:34
• 9 Ysaÿe: Sonata Op.28: II. Intermezzo - Poco allegretto e grazioso 04:00
• 10 Ysaÿe: Sonata Op.28: III. In modo di recitativo - Adagio 01:55
• 11 Ysaÿe: Sonata Op.28: IV. Finale con brio - Allegro tempo fermo 03:43
• George Gershwin (1898 - 1937): Three Preludes:
• 12 Gershwin: Three Preludes: I. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso 01:47
• 13 Gershwin: Three Preludes: II. Andante con moto e poco rubato 04:07
• 14 Gershwin: Three Preludes: III. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso 01:21
• Total Runtime 01:02:25

Info for Cerdanyenca

Cerdanyenca takes its title from the eponymous sonata, written by Catalan composer Marc Migo Cortes, who dedicated this masterwork to Prihodko, his great friend. Conceived at the Juilliard School in New York, where Prihodko held the prestigious Kovner Fellowship while completing his Bachelor’s Degree in the studio of Richard Aaron, and Migo Cortes was completing his Ph.D. in the studio of John Corigliano, Sonata Cerdanyenca continues the tradition of the grandiose twentieth-century masterworks for cello and piano. Cultivating the lifetime synergy between composer and cellist, Prihodko and Migo specifically drew inspiration from the artistic collaborations between Rostropovich and Britten, and Piatigorsky and Strauss. The newly commissioned and internationally premiered Sonata has won the prestigious Pau Casals Festival International Award in 2019. In this extremely demanding monumental piece, the composer portrays the legends of his home region of La Cerdanya, from the tales of La dona d’aigua (the seducing water-woman) to the echoing Sardana Dances of Catalonia. His use of folkloric elements contextualizes hundreds of years of storytelling in an engaging acoustical play, expertly guided by Korolionok and Prihodko.

In a note to his Sonata per a violoncel i piano “Cerdanyenca,” Marc Migó briefly explains that the work―ambitious, as I said, long, and relentlessly chuck-full of virtuosity―was commissioned by cellist Philip Shegog, whose only special request from the composer was to find inspiration in his heritage. Migó wrote the first movement, “Al Cap del Ras,” (At the Cap del Ras) moved by that flabbergasting natural lookout (Cap del Ras) with panoramic views of the Pyrenees mountains. The second movement, “La dona de l’aigua” refers to another natural site in the Pyrenees named after the legend of The Waterwoman, a mysterious beautiful woman, a creature of the water, who eventually marries a man on the condition that her origins should never be revealed… well, no spoilers here, suffice it to say that Migó’s music does reflect the fairytale, supernatural quality of the story. After an “Intermezzo and Cadenza”, the third movement, where unabashed virtuoso Mark Prihodko in this recording shows an absolute command of his technique, the final movement, “Excursions” returns to the evocation of the landscape of Northern Catalonia and the Pyrenees, and more specifically the region of La Cerdanya. Hence the subtitle “Sonata Cerdanyenca.” ...

Mark Prihodko, cello
Viktoria Korolionok, piano

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