Oleg Marshev, the pianist, trained at the Gnesin School and Moscow Conservatory, representing the fifth generation of Russian pianists since Liszt.
Composer's Artistic Vision
All three composers on this album—Chopin, Liszt, and Scriabin—were supreme virtuoso pianist-composers, embodying different aspects of the 19th-century virtuoso figure.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The album features three Eastern European piano composers: Chopin (Polish), Liszt (Hungarian), and Scriabin (Russian), whose works are naturally satisfying together.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Chopin, virtuosity served as a 'handmaid of expression,' conveying the immediate emotion of his music.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Chopin and Liszt were primary influences on Scriabin's early musical development.
Composer's Artistic Vision
For Scriabin, virtuosity was inherent in his musical ideas, serving as a 'medium of communication with the divine' and a 'portal to Nirvana'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Liszt, as a 'heroic artist,' used his pyrotechnical bravura to incorporate literature, painting, and even other composers' music into his creative imagination.
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