Jaeden Izik-Dzurko Piano Recital

Featuring

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko
Alexander Scriabin
Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Recording & Production

This album was recorded from April 1-4, 2024, at Auditorio Sony, Madrid, Spain, and was sponsored by the Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.

Composition History

Rachmaninov's Piano Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 28, was inspired by Goethe's Faust and unfolds as a vast psychological drama.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Alexander Scriabin's work reflects an epoch preoccupied with transcendence and the limits of expression, translating spiritual and aesthetic aspirations into a unique musical syntax.

Performer Biography

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, a Canadian pianist, made history as the first Canadian to win the Grand Prize at the Concours musical international de Montréal.

Performer Biography

Jaeden Izik-Dzurko has performed in many leading concert halls worldwide, including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie, and London's Wigmore Hall.

Composer Biography

Scriabin, despite a handspan of barely an octave and a permanent hand injury from overreaching in pursuit of Rachmaninov, performed almost exclusively his own works.

Compositional Technique

Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53, includes the 'mystic chord' or 'Prometheus chord,' his hallmark of stacked fourths and altered intervals, which tints the harmony with incandescent uncertainty.