A Slavic Heart: Alexander Scriabin; Sergei Rachmaninoff; Sergei Prokofiev; Pancho Vladigerov

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The Scriabin is a powerful performance…[Rachmaninov] Petrova’s account is magnificently considered. She knows that pedaling is vital in this composer, and to be used sparingly, something immediately... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

Release Date: 4th Mar 2022
Catalogue No: SM383
Label: Solo Musica
Length: 62 minutes

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Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 'Sonata Fantasy'

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I. Andante

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II. Presto

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Rachmaninoff: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42

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Theme. Andante

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Var. 1, Poco piu mosso

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Var. 2, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 3, Tempo di minuetto

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Var. 4, Andante

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Var. 5, Allegro, ma non tanto

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Var. 6. L'istesso tempo

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Var. 7, Vivace

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Var. 8, Adagio misterioso

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Var. 9, Un poco piu mosso

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Var. 10, Allegro scherzando

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Var. 11, Allegro vivace

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Var. 12, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 13, Agitato

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Intermezzo

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Var. 14, Andante, come prima

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Var. 15, L'istesso tempo

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Var. 16, Allegro vivace

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Var. 17, Meno mosso

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Var. 18, Allegro con brio

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Var. 19, Piu mosso. Agitato

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Var. 20, Piu mosso

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Coda. Andante

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Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82

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I. Allegro moderato

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II. Allegretto

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III. Tempo di valzer, lentissimo

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IV. Vivace

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Vladigerov: Aquarelles for Piano, Op. 37

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No. 6, Rhythmic Movement

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In her New York orchestral debut with conductor Philippe Entremont, Anna Petrova was praised for her 'ultra-smooth playing style' [New York Fine Arts Examiner]. She is an assistant professor of piano at the University of Louisville, KY, holds a PhD in musicology from the Manhattan School of Music, and performs frequently as a soloist and chamber musician. The album presents the music of four composers: Sergey Rachmaninoff, Sergey Prokofiev, Alexander Scriabin, and Pancho Vladigerov. Three Russians and one Bulgarian, the music of whom spans a total of 50 years, from 1892 to 1942. 'The heart is an ancestral metaphor: throughout human history, it has been thought of as many diverse things, and always as things of paramount value. For example, it has been sometimes thought as the secret seat of courage or of intelligence; or as a hiding place for emotions; or as a breakable, fragile and precious object that we treasure; as a place from which sincere feelings emanate; as the locus of romantic desire; as the deep, summarizing content of a person - their kernel, their defining core... Also, in many languages, the word 'heart' comes from either the Latin root cor/cordis, or from the Greek root kardia. That is, Spanish (corazón), French (coeur), and Italian (cuore), to give an example, take the Latin root, while German (Herz) and English (heart) take the Greek one (kardia). But what is most important for my present purposes here, and what these two roots share amongst each other, is their connection to the Indo-European root kr, which has the original sense of 'vibrating.' Indeed, the two consonants sound like that when pronounced together, like a gentle vibration. Krrr.... In this very sense, too, a heart is a vibrating object, a vibrating, secret, treasured place - just like I wanted the piano and my playing of it to be in this album - a dear object that secretly vibrates with the sounds of my music.' (Anna Petrova)

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Nov/Dec 2022

The Scriabin is a powerful performance…[Rachmaninov] Petrova’s account is magnificently considered. She knows that pedaling is vital in this composer, and to be used sparingly, something immediately obvious in her intelligent, eminently musical way with the first two variations...a terrific disc.

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