Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has chosen an interesting program for her debut recording on MSR Classics, Sound of Verse. The idea is to relate poetry to music, and unusually poetic texts are included in the booklet as a counterpoint to the purely instrumental piano music on the disc; normally one does not get verse in the book unless something is being sung. Boris Pasternak is a natural choice to lead off the disc; although many are familiar with his Nobel Prize-winning novel Doctor Zhivago, and in Russia he is ...
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Ukrainian-born pianist Inna Faliks has chosen an interesting program for her debut recording on MSR Classics, Sound of Verse. The idea is to relate poetry to music, and unusually poetic texts are included in the booklet as a counterpoint to the purely instrumental piano music on the disc; normally one does not get verse in the book unless something is being sung. Boris Pasternak is a natural choice to lead off the disc; although many are familiar with his Nobel Prize-winning novel Doctor Zhivago, and in Russia he is regarded as one of her greatest poets, not many are aware that in his formative years Pasternak was an adherent of the "Scriabin school" and that his first ambition was to become a composer. The Sonata in B minor of Pasternak and the two preludes included here were written before Pasternak achieved his twentieth year; the B minor Sonata is a startling work for 1909, quite advanced in its harmonic ideas, though essentially romantic in spirit, reflecting the influence of Scriabin -- who was...
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