Piano Music
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SCRIABIN
Piano Music
Soyeon Kate Lee (piano)
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 29 January 2016
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Alexander Scriabin's music was admired by Tolstoy as 'a sincere expression of genius' while the composer once described himself as 'all impulse, all desire…'. Rivalling Rachmaninov as a virtuoso musician, the colourful young pianist/composer Scriabin found inspiration in his hero Chopin, while adding Russian darkness to his Impromptus and sensuous passion to the technically demanding Sonate-fantaisie. This album of lesser-known works also includes the precocious 11-year-old's Canon in D minor.
"Better late than never, I suppose, is the right reaction to this album. Scriabin's centenary after all was last year, and these recordings were made back in June 2013. But they are still welcome as an unhackneyed selection of some of Scriabin's less well known piano music, all of it approachable, and all very competently played by the young Korean/American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee" (ClassicFM)
Tracks:
Canon in D minor
2 Impromptus, Op. 12
2 Impromptus, Op. 7
Two Pieces, Op. 57
Rêverie, Op. 49 No. 3
Nocturne in D flat major Op. 9 No. 2
Two Nocturnes, Op.5
Impromptu in A major, Op. 2, No. 3
Quasi Valse, Op. 47
Scherzo for Piano in C major, Op. 46
Sonata-Fantaisie in G sharp minor (1886)
Variations on a theme by Mlle Egorova
