Anna Petrova - A Slavic Heart (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

In her New York orchestral debut with conductor Philippe Entremont, Anna Petrova was praised for her 'ultra-smooth playing style' [New York Fine Arts Examiner]. She is an assistant professor of piano at the University of Louisville, KY, holds a PhD in musicology from the Manhattan School of Music, and performs frequently as a soloist and chamber musician. The album presents the music of four composers: Sergey Rachmaninoff, Sergey Prokofiev, Alexander Scriabin, and Pancho Vladigerov. Three Russians and one Bulgarian, the music of whom spans a total of 50 years, from 1892 to 1942. 'The heart is an ancestral metaphor: throughout human history, it has been thought of as many diverse things, and always as things of paramount value. For example, it has been sometimes thought as the secret seat of courage or of intelligence; or as a hiding place for emotions; or as a breakable, fragile and precious object that we treasure; as a place from which sincere feelings emanate; as the locus of romantic desire; as the deep, summarizing content of a person - their kernel, their defining core… Also, in many languages, the word 'heart' comes from either the Latin root cor/cordis, or from the Greek root kardia. That is, Spanish (corazón), French (coeur), and Italian (cuore), to give an example, take the Latin root, while German (Herz) and English (heart) take the Greek one (kardia). But what is most important for my present purposes here, and what these two roots share amongst each other, is their connection to the Indo-European root kr, which has the original sense of 'vibrating.' Indeed, the two consonants sound like that when pronounced together, like a gentle vibration. Krrr…. In this very sense, too, a heart is a vibrating object, a vibrating, secret, treasured place - just like I wanted the piano and my playing of it to be in this album - a dear object that secretly vibrates with the sounds of my music.' (Anna Petrova)

TRACKLIST

01. Anna Petrova - Piano Sonata No 2 in G-Sharp Minor "Sonata-Fantasy": I. Andante
02. Anna Petrova - Piano Sonata No 2 in G-Sharp Minor "Sonata-Fantasy": II. Presto
03. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Theme: Andante
04. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation I: Poco Piu Mosso
05. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation II: L'istesso Tempo
06. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation III: Tempo Di Minuetto
07. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation IV: Andante
08. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation V: Allegro (Ma Non Tanto)
09. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation Vi: L'istesso Tempo
10. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation VII: Vivace
11. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation VIII: Adagio Misterioso
12. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation IX: Un Poco Piu Mosso
13. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation X: Allegro Scherzando
14. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XI: Allegro Vivace
15. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XII: L'istesso Tempo
16. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XIII: Agitato
17. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Intermezzo
18. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XIV: Andante (Come Prima)
19. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XV: L'istesso Tempo
20. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XVI: Allegro Vivace
21. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XVII: Meno Mosso
22. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XVIII: Allegro Con Brio
23. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XIX: Piu Mosso. Agitato
24. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Variation XX: Piu Mosso
25. Anna Petrova - Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42: Coda. Andante
26. Anna Petrova - Piano Sonata No 6 in A Major, Op. 82: I. Allegro Moderato
27. Anna Petrova - Piano Sonata No 6 in A Major, Op. 82: II. Allegretto
28. Anna Petrova - Piano Sonata No 6 in A Major, Op. 82: III. Tempo Di Valzer Lentissimo
29. Anna Petrova - Piano Sonata No 6 in A Major, Op. 82: IV. Vivace
30. Anna Petrova - Aquarelles for Piano, Op. 37: No 6, Rhythmic Movement



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