Minsky Duo: Exploring the Music of Kapustin and Prokofiev

Minsky Duo makes its Red Poppy debut with an all-Russian/Soviet program that includes the first San Francisco performance of living composer Nikolai Kapustin’s rollicking “Sonata for Violin and Piano,” Prokofiev’s “Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor” (described by the composer as "wind whistling through a graveyard"), Tchaikovsky's beautifully lyric “Meditation,” Scriabin's explosive “Piano Sonata No. 4,” and Schnittke’s recently-discovered “Fuga for Solo Violin.” Featuring: Nato - violin Monic...
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