Svetlana Andreeva, the pianist on this album, was born in Dzhankoy, in the south of Ukraine, and studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow.
The three works on this album, including Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, evoke the poetry of a feminine renaissance.
Pianist Svetlana Andreeva performs on a Steinway Model D piano for this recording.
The recording took place on January 5, 2023, at the New Auditorium, RSNO Center Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Sergey Neller, the German conductor of Russian origin, was the second prize winner of the prestigious Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition in 2016.
This album features two world premieres: Christian Schittenhelm's Piano Concerto no. 4 'Air' and his symphonic poem 'Dawn'.
Christian Schittenhelm, the composer of 'Air' and 'Dawn', composed his first orchestral works at the age of 12.
