Alexandrov: Piano Music, Vol. 2 Kyung-Ah Noh

• 1 No. 1. Nocturne 04:52
• 2 No. 2. Waltz 04:28
• 3 Allegro agitato 13:49
• 4 No. 1. Amethysts: Andante poetico 01:36
• 5 No. 2. The Enchanted Castle: Volando 03:54
• 6 I. Agitato mosso, con slancio vigoroso e gran' passione 07:16
• 7 II. Andante meditativo 05:19
• 8 III. Invocando, un poco sostenuto 05:22
• 9 Sonata Skazka 07:29
• 10 I. Allegretto grazioso 05:02
• 11 II. Adagio non troppo 05:12
• 12 III Intrada, alla improvisata - Alla marcia stravaganta 04:53
• 13 I. Fairy Lullaby: Tranquillo ma non troppo lento 01:32
• 14 II. Etude: Allegro assai 01:48
• 15 III Melodie: Lento, cantabile, espresso, dolce 02:25
• 16 IV. A Joke: Allegro con brio 02:04
• Total Runtime 01:17:01

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Anatoly Alexandrov (1888-1982) is one of the forgotten figures of the Russian school of pianism that embraced Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Skryabin, Shostakovich, Gilels and so many other composers and pianists. Alexandrov composed fourteen sonatas and much else for piano in an attractive late-Romantic style that owes much to Nikolai Medtner, his teacher and friend. This first volume in the first-ever survey of his piano music presents a conspectus of works composed between 1939 and 1962.

„Played like this you would be forgiven for assuming these virtually unknown scores had been part of her performing repertoire for years.“ (IRR)

Kyung-Ah Noh, piano

Kyung-Ah Noh
was born in 1982 in Seoul, South Korea. She started to play the piano at the age of seven and studied with Eun Kyung Park at Deokwon Art High School, playing in the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) Exhibition Hall in Seoul as a representative of the Music Department. From 2001 until 2005 she took a Bachelor’s degree at the Kyung Hee University with Leda Kim and Joo Hyun Cho and received her Master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, with Bruce Brubaker, in 2008. ere she was a winner in the Honor Competition, playing Busoni’s Toccata in Jordan Hall – a performance included on a CD of the New England Conservatory in 2009, NEC: It’s about the music. She participated in a Messiaen centenary concert in Jordan Hall and played as a representative of the piano department in an NEC ‘Commencement’ concert. She continued her studies with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas in Denton, where she held a teaching fellowship for three years.

At home she has won a number of piano competitions, including those held by e Korea Daily News, the National Filial Piety Music Contest and the Korean Piano Academics Association in South Korea. Further a eld, she won rst prize in the International Piano Workshop Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, in 2010.

Her interest in chamber music was encouraged by coaching from Mai Motobuchi and Stephen Drury at the New England Conservatory of Music and with Igor Borodin, George Papich and Susan Dubois at the University of North Texas. She has participated in master-classes with Balázs Fülei, Joseph Standford, Mihail Milkov and Murray McLachlan. She holds the Peggy Boston Duggan piano scholarship at the University of North Texas, where in August 2014 she was awarded a doctoral degree, with a dissertation on Gordon Binkerd’s Intermezzo from Essays for the Piano (1976): A Comprehensive Analysis of Brahmsian Compositional Influence and Stylistic Elements.

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