Intrigues of the Darkness Anna Fedorova

• Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915): Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68:
• 1 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 09:10
• Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937): Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55:
• 2 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: I. Ondine 07:09
• 3 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: II. Le gibet 05:22
• 4 Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55: III. Scarbo 09:42
• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946): El amor brujo:
• 5 Falla: El amor brujo: I. Pantomime 04:13
• 6 Falla: El amor brujo: II. Dance of Terror 02:02
• 7 Falla: El amor brujo: III. Magical Circle 02:04
• 8 Falla: El amor brujo: IV. Ritual Dance of Fire 03:59
• Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881): Pictures at an Exhibition:
• 9 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade I 01:19
• 10 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: I. Gnomus 02:46
• 11 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade II 00:51
• 12 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: II. Il vecchio castello 04:04
• 13 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade III 00:26
• 14 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: III. Tuileries (Dispute d'enfants après jeux) 01:06
• 15 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: IV. Bydło 02:50
• 16 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade IV 00:47
• 17 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: V. Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks 00:59
• 18 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: VI. "Samuel" Goldenberg und "Schmuÿle" 02:22
• 19 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade V 01:18
• 20 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: VII. Limoges, le marché (La grande nouvelle) 01:20
• 21 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: VIII. Catacombæ (Sepulcrum romanum) 02:27
• 22 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: Cum mortuis in lingua mortua 02:18
• 23 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: IX. The Hut on Fowl's Legs (Baba-Yagá) 03:35
• 24 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition: X. The Great Gate of Kiev 05:04
• Total Runtime 01:17:13

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Anna Fedorova explores the Intrigues of the Darkness in these programmatic and extremely virtuosic works for solo piano. The journey from darkness to light begins with Scriabin’s terrifying "Black Mass" Sonata. The work represents a satanic ritual that is possessed by the spectre of the Mephistophelian Liszt. De Falla’s Suite from El Amor brujo conjures a mysterious world, full of magic, rituals and ghost visitations. Ravel described his Gaspard de la nuit as "romantic and of transcendent virtuosity". These highly evocative pieces are based on Aloysius Bertrand’s prose poems depicting scenes of a hanged man sighing on the gallows and a devilish dwarf. Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition portrays many scenes of darkness but emerges into light with the Great Gate of Kiev, in which triumphant episodes alternate with moments of religious contemplation.

Anna Fedorova, piano

Anna Fedorova
is one of the world's premier young pianists. From an early age, she demonstrated an innate musical maturity and outstanding technical abilities. Her international concert career took off while she was only a child, and audiences around the world were stunned by the depth and power of her musical expression. Critics have praised Anna's signature “sweet modesty and wild expression,” which rendered listeners “completely taken by surprise, compelled and astonished.”

In September 2013 Anna performed Rachmaninoff 2nd Piano Concerto at the opening of the season of Sunday Morning Concerts series at the Great hall of the Royal Concertgebouw. Within two and a half a years, the recording of this concert received over 9 million views on YouTube and was highly praised among renown musicians. In November 2015 she returned to perform in the big hall of Concertgebouw in Sunday Morning Concerts series Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No 3, this performance was again steamed live on TV, internet and radio.

She has performed in some of the most prestigious concert halls of Europe, North and South America, and Asia, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, the Zurich Tonhalle, The Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico), the Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), Cadogan Hall (London), the Warsaw Filharmonia, the Gdansk Philharmonic, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Hamburg Laeiszhalle, Belem Cultural Centre in Lisbon and many others. She has also appeared at numerous Music Festivals such as the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Annecy Classic Festival (France), Menuhin Festival Gstaad (Switzerland), Ravinia Festival (USA), the IKIF (New York, USA), Violon sur le sable (France), the Rubinstein Piano Festival (Lodz, Poland), the International Piano Festival in Trieste (Italy), the Orpheum Music Festival (Zurich, Switzerland), Musikdorf Ernen (Switzerland), The Corfu Festival of Arts (Greece), the Chopin Festival in Antonin (Poland), International Chamber Music Festival Koblenz (Germany) and others.

Having mastered a formidable concerto repertoire, she played with orchestras around the world, among which are The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony orchestra (Japan), the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orquestra Filarmonica de Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne (Switzerland), the Residentie Orkest and the Camerata Amsterdam (Netherlands), the Tokyo New City Orchestra (Japan), the Philarmonia of the Nations and the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie (Germany), the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra and the OFUNAM (Mexico), the Israel Chamber Orchestra, the Polish Camerata and many others. Conductors with whom Anna has had the pleasure of performing with include Jaap Van Zweden, Jun Markl, Alun Francis, Andrew Grams, Howard Griffiths, Gerard Oskamp, Justus Franz, Kevin Griffiths, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Jerome Pillement, Shinik Hahm, Alejo Perez, Martin Panteleev, David Lockington and many others.

Anna has claimed top prizes at numerous international piano competitions, including the International Rubinstein 'In Memoriam' piano competition, the Moscow International Frederick Chopin Competition for young pianists, the Lyon Piano Competition, and recently became recipient of the Verbier Festival Academy Award. She is also two-time laureate of the Dorothy MacKenzie Artist Recognition Scholarship Award at the International Keyboards Institute & Festival (New York, USA). A graduate of the Lysenko School of Music in Kyiv (studio of Borys Fedorov), Anna is currently a student of Norma Fisher at the Royal College of Music in London, she is David Young Piano Prize Holder supported by a Soiree d’Or Award and Keyboard Trust. Additionally, Anna studies at the prestigious Accademia Pianistica in Imola, Italy under professor Leonid Margarius. She has also received artistic guidance from world renowned pianists such as Alfred Brendel and Menahem Pressler, and is regularly mentored by Steven Isserlis and Andras Schiff.

In autumn 2014 Anna’s first two albums were released - Solo CD with works by Brahms, Liszt and Chopin under DiscAnnecy Label and the Rachmaninoff CD with Piano Classics. Summer 2016is marked for Anna with release of 3 more albums - with Rachmaninoff 3rd piano Concerto and Mussorgsky “Pictures at an Exhibition”, and two duo CDs are - with german Cellist Benedict Kloeckner and works of Chopin and Frank, and with turkish cellist Jamal Aliyev and works by Russian composers.

Highlights of Anna’s future engagements include performances with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Cadogan hall in London, Orchestre Lamoureux in the Theatre des Champs Elysees, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (UK), Orchestra Simfonica Siciliana, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie and many others. She will perform in such prestigious concert halls as the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vancouver Playhouse, The Norwegian Opera and ballet in Oslo, Theatre des Champs Elysees, Louis Vuitton Series in Paris and many others. In the 2015-2016 Anna was the artist in residence in Edeshe Concert hall in Ede, Netherlnds. In May 2017 there is going to be the first edition of International Chamber Music Festival Ede, where she is going to be artistic director.

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