Evocation: Scriabin, Mozart, Messiaen
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Label: Steinway & Sons
Cat No: STNS30096
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 20th December 2019
Contents
Works
Catalogue d'oiseaux Book 3Piano Sonata no.2 in G sharp minor, op.19 'Sonata-Fantasy'
Piano Sonata no.9, op.68 'Black Mass'
Vers la flamme, op.72
Artists
Klara Min (piano)Works
Catalogue d'oiseaux Book 3Piano Sonata no.2 in G sharp minor, op.19 'Sonata-Fantasy'
Piano Sonata no.9, op.68 'Black Mass'
Vers la flamme, op.72
Artists
Klara Min (piano)About
Min also plays two other pieces by Scraibin on the record: Sonata no.9, op.68, “Black Mass”, and Vers la flame, op.72. Both pieces explore the darker, more mysterious side of night, incorporating musical elements that shocked both the composer and the audience, such as an opening wailing motive in “Black Mass” and a flickering flame theme in Vers la flame that grows throughout the piece to a wrenching conclusion. Closing out the album is “La chouette hulotte”, another work from Messiaen’s Catalogue d’oiseaux, Book 3. This piece delves deeper into the ominous, fearful themes of the preceding Scriabin pieces, painting a religiously tinged, terror-filled scene. According to the liner notes, Messiaen describes the piece as “Darkness, fear, a racing pulse… the call of the tawny owl… gripped by terror, like the shriek of a murdered child... Silence. The owl’s hooting fades in the distance, like a bell tolling from another world.”
World-renowned concert pianist Klara Min is a Steinway Artist who makes her home in Berlin and New York. Respected also as a thought-leader in music industry, Ms. Min is the founder and artistic director of New York Concert Artists and Associates (NYCA). A native of South Korea, Ms. Min has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe as well as in her home country of South Korea, in some of the world’s most important concert venues including Carnegie Hall, Munich’s Gasteig, the Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin’s Konzerthhaus, Laeiszhalle, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Paris’s Salle Cortot and South Korea’s KBS Broadcast Hall, Lotte Concert Hall. She has performed with prestigious orchestras such as Munich Kammerphilharmonie, Seoul Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra among others. Gramophone magazine describes Ms. Min’s 2016 recording of Scriabin works on the Steinway & Sons record label as, "In short, Min’s finest performances on this gorgeously engineered release will make Scriabin fans sit up and take notice." Klara Min’s first album Ripples on Water features modern Korean piano music; it was released on Naxos and complimented for “making every note count” (All Music). Her second release of a selection of Chopin’s Mazurkas was released on Delos. American Record Guide selected the album as one of six critics’ choices in 2013 raving, “her dynamic control is out of this world”. Klara Min was the recipient of a Samsung scholarship.
“In short, Min’s finest performances on this gorgeously engineered release will make Scriabin fans sit up and take notice.” - Gramophone
“Klara Min’s piano playing is demonstrably intelligent, technically assured and, where necessary, delicate or muscly.” - MusicWeb International
“Min plays with the most ravishing piano tone I’ve heard in the last 50 discs I’ve listened to, at least! Her dynamic control is out of this world...” - American Record Guide
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