Auerbach: Twenty Four Preludes for Violin and Piano

Featuring

Vadim Gluzman
Angela Yoffe
Lera Auerbach

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Lera Auerbach intended her Twenty-Four Preludes to form a continuum, where each short piece is an organic part of a larger composition with its own form.

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in July 2002 at Nybrokajen 11, the former Academy of Music, in Stockholm, Sweden.

Performer Biography

Vadim Gluzman, the violinist, plays the 1690 'ex-Leopold Auer' Stradivari, which is on extended loan to him through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Lera Auerbach's Twenty-Four Preludes for Violin and Piano, like her other prelude cycles, aim to re-establish the value of all major and minor tonalities, following the circle of fifths to cover the entire tonal spectrum.

Composer Biography

Lera Auerbach, the composer, began playing piano at a very early age, gave her first public performance at six, and made her first appearance as a soloist with orchestra at eight.

Composer Biography

Lera Auerbach was named Poet of the Year by the International Pushkin Society in 1996 and awarded the Annual Poetry Prize of Novoye Russkoye Slovo, the largest Russian-language newspaper in the West.