Bernd Glemser has a particular affection for the virtuoso music of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including works by Liszt, Tausig, Godowsky, Busoni, and Rachmaninov.
Compositional Technique
Scriabin's 'Poème-Nocturne', Opus 61, includes a series of unusual performance directions such as 'avec une grace capricieuse' (with capricious grace) and 'comme une ombre mouvante' (like a moving shadow).
Performer Biography
Bernd Glemser, the pianist on this album, is a prize-winner of seventeen international competitions and was appointed professor at the Saarbrucken Musikhochschule while still a pupil.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Scriabin was an isolated figure, known for his peculiar brand of mysticism in which he saw himself in a Messianic light, and for his innovative attempts to combine color and music.
Composer Biography
Scriabin studied piano with George Konyus and Zverev, and theory with Sergey Taneyev, graduating as a pianist from the Conservatory in 1892.
Composer Biography
Alexander Scriabin, the composer, was born in Moscow in 1872 to a lawyer father and a gifted musician mother who was a pupil of Leschetizky.
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