Scriabin: Piano Music, Vol. 2 Soyeon Kate Lee

• 1 Allegro de concert, Op. 18 06:58
• 2 Feuillet d'album in F-Sharp Major, Op. posth. 01:00
• 3 Feuillet d'album de Monighetti in A-Flat Major, Op. posth. 00:46
• 4 3 Pieces, Op. 45: No. 1. Feuillet d'Album 01:28
• 5 4 Pieces, Op. 56: No. 2. Ironies 02:47
• 6 Allegro Appassionato, Op. 4 11:22
• 7 2 Impromptus, Op. 10: No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor 04:54
• 8 4 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 1. Fragilite 02:14
• 9 2 Impromptus, Op. 10: No. 2 in A Major 03:26
• 10 4 Pieces, Op. 56: No. 3. Nuances 01:24
• 11 2 Impromptus, Op. 14: No. 1 in B Major 02:55
• 12 4 Pieces, Op. 51: No. 4. Danse languide 00:53
• 13 2 Impromptus, Op. 14: No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor 04:17
• 14 Waltz in G-Sharp Minor, Op. posth 02:45
• 15 Fantasie in B Minor, Op. 28 10:19
• 16 Fugue in E Minor 03:18
• Total Runtime 01:00:46

Info for Scriabin: Piano Music, Vol. 2

Expressive allure and refined originality are the hallmarks of much of Alexander Scriabin’s piano music. Miniatures such as the Feuillets d’album (album leaves) and the Impromptus, draw on examples by composers including Chopin, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. The Fantaisie, Op. 28 is notable for its brooding opening, melodic abundance and virtuoso style, while the Opus 51 and 56 collections create a multiplicity of moods. The great Soviet pianist Sviatoslav Richter regarded Scriabin’s music as ‘a poetical drug’, and contemporary commentators described it as ‘full of fancy, delight and beauty’.

Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

Soyeon Kate Lee
First prize winner of the 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition and the 2004 Concert Artist Guild International Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Cleveland Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional of the Dominican Republic, Orquesta de Valencia, the Louisiana Philharmonic, the San Diego Symphony, and the Naples Philharmonic, Florida. In recent seasons she has given recitals at New York’s Zankel, Alice Tully, and Merkin halls, Kennedy Center, the Ravinia Festival, the National Auditorium, Madrid and the Herbst Theatre, San Francisco. Second prize and Mozart Prize winner of the Cleveland International Piano Competition and a laureate of the Santander International Piano Competition in Spain, she has worked extensively with Richard Goode, Robert McDonald, Ursula Oppens, and Jerome Lowenthal. She is the co-founder and artistic director of Music by the Glass, a concert series dedicated to bringing together young professionals in New York City. A Yamaha Artist, she is an Assistant Professor of Piano at the Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music.

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