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Alexander Waugh, Literary Review
`So interesting and so fluently translated that even the slowest readers are unlikely to take more than a week to gobble through its 775 pages. [...] It is no exaggeration to say that there is not a single dull paragraph in the whole book. [...] I have not felt as passionately engrossed with a book as I have with this one for as long as I can remember [...] You do not have to be musical to enjoy these diaries. I am sure that in time they will come to be ranked among the great classic diaries of European literature. Truly impressive.'
Hugh Canning, Sunday Times
'Anthony Phillips's masterly translation of Prokofiev's diaries...Prokofiev's eyewitness accounts of encounters with his great musical contemporaries - and the accessible, conversational style captured in Phillips's translation - make these diaries compelling reading, and not only for musical historians. ...[they] bring an era of historical and artistic importance vividly to life.'
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Format:Hardcover
I was pleased and surprised how soon this was published after Vol 1: the amount of work involved should have taken longer. It is a shame that some of the diaries have been lost but Prokofiev makes up for this late in the book.
Again, the translator is brilliant: taken for granted after Vol 1.
Prokofiev grows up, personally and musically, but remains as egocentric as before. He struggles to become known and to make money from his work. He is clearly not a person to compromise his artistic status for easy earnings, though. Lots of contact with other famous people: Diaghilev, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky.
The other fascination with this volume is that Prokofiev describes his life during the Russian Revolution. He seems apolitical but aware of the suffering of his friends and family especially after he has emigrated to the USA.
This volume ends at an opportune point in his life, artistically and personally and Volume 3 will have an interesting beginning. I can't wait!
Again, the translator is brilliant: taken for granted after Vol 1.
Prokofiev grows up, personally and musically, but remains as egocentric as before. He struggles to become known and to make money from his work. He is clearly not a person to compromise his artistic status for easy earnings, though. Lots of contact with other famous people: Diaghilev, Rachmaninov, Stravinsky.
The other fascination with this volume is that Prokofiev describes his life during the Russian Revolution. He seems apolitical but aware of the suffering of his friends and family especially after he has emigrated to the USA.
This volume ends at an opportune point in his life, artistically and personally and Volume 3 will have an interesting beginning. I can't wait!
Format:Hardcover
In one of his diaries Prokofiev writes that if he would not have become a composer he would have liked to have been a writer. Reading this second volume it is clear that he was a good writer. He writes with a lot of humor, his selfasurance is infectious and apart from countless personal observations there is a lot of history in this book. An eye-witness account of the beginning of the Russian revolution. He writes about his friendship with fellow students Miaskovsky and Max Schmidthof (whom later committed suicide and was arguably the inspiration for Prokofiev's second piano concerto). He plays chess and becomes friends with Capablanca (Word Chess Champion in those days). Prokofiev loved traveling and writes about his journey to Italy in order to meet Diaghilev. His very difficult travel out of Russia via Japan to America. In New York he has a brief affair with actress Stella Adler (whom later thought a.o. Marlon Brando) - This book gives a great insight in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. By boat Prokofiev travels several times to France (Paris) where he later marries his first wife Lina and settles down before returning to Russia (now the USSR)in 1936. But I guess we will read about that in the third volume (if there is going to be a third volume?) I do hope so. A real roller-coaster of a life very well written (and very well translated)
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