Prokofiev - Violin sonata n°1 - Oistrakh / Oborin

普羅科菲耶夫的作曲風格從俄羅斯帝政末期的現代主義，到社會主義時期的寫實手法，可謂務實而又多變的現代作曲家之一。他為小提琴所寫的作品，包括兩首著名的協奏曲、兩首為小提琴和鋼琴所作的奏鳴曲(作品Op.80與Op.94)、C大調雙小提琴奏鳴曲、D大調無伴奏奏鳴曲，以及兩首未完成的奏鳴曲。
《f小調第一小提琴奏鳴曲》(Op.80)作於1938至1946年間，此曲以18世紀巴洛克奏鳴曲的形式作為全曲的架構，運用獨特的音樂語法和尖銳的和聲音響，巧妙地將兩個不同世紀的寫作手法融合在一起。《D大調小提琴奏鳴曲》(Op.94bis)則是普羅科菲耶夫接受了小提琴家歐伊斯特拉赫的意見，改編自1943年所作的長笛奏鳴曲。這兩首作品都是題獻給好友歐伊斯特拉赫的。收錄於本片中的《五首旋律》(Op.35bis)，則改編自1920年的聲樂作品。

Sergei Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op 80, written between 1938 and 1946 (completed two years after Violin Sonata No. 2), is one of the darkest and most brooding of the composer's works.

The work is about 30 minutes long and is in four movements:

1. Andante assai
2. Allegro brusco
3. Andante
4. Allegrissimo - Andante assai, come prima

Prokofiev had described the slithering violin scales at the end of the 1st and 4th movements as 'wind passing through a graveyard'.

The work was premiered by David Oistrakh and Lev Oborin, under the personal coaching of the composer. During rehearsals, Oborin played a certain passage, marked forte, too gently for Prokofiev's liking, who insisted it should be more aggressive. Oborin replied that he was afraid of drowning out the violin, but Prokofiev said "It should sound in such a way that people should jump in their seat, and people will say 'Is he out of his mind?'".^[1]

The first and third movements of the sonata were played at Prokofiev's funeral by Oistrakh and Samuil Feinberg