Sonata for Solo Cello (Prokofiev)

Sergei Prokofiev began composing his Sonata for Solo Cello, Op.

[3] Years later, in 1972, the Russian musicologist and composer, Vladimir Blok, set about completing Prokofiev's Sonata for Solo Cello as a single, performable movement.

Blok's reconstruction of the Sonata for Solo Cello was premiered by Natalia Gutman in Moscow in 1972, and was published the next year by Musikverlag Hans Sikorski.

[4] It was not until a decade later, in 1984, that the first recording of the work was made by the British cellist, Steven Isserlis.

[5] In addition to Isserlis, recordings were made by Alexander Ivashkin, Raphael Wallfisch,Yan Levionnois and Luciano Tarantino Performances generally run between 8 and 12 minutes.