Memories from Home
Dreyer Gaido 11796 (2 CDs)
Elisaveta Blumina, piano
Release Date: 2020-01-17

 

 

 

 

CD 1

Alexander Skriabin : 5 Préludes, Op. 16

  1.  No. 1, Andante
  2.  No. 2, Allegro
  3.  No. 3, Andante cantabile
  4.  No. 4, Lento
  5.  No. 5, Allegretto

Sergei Prokofiev : Visions Fugitives, Op. 22 (Excerpts)

  1.  No. 1, Lentamente
  2.  No. 10, Ridicolosamente
  3.  No. 11,  Con vivacità
  4.  No. 16, Dolente
  5.  No. 17, Poetico
  6.  No. 4,  Animato

Mieczyslaw Weinberg : 2 Fugues for Ludmila Berlinskaya

  1. No. 1
  2. No. 2

Grigori Frid : Hungarian Album, Op. 54

  1.  No. 1,  Der Storch
  2.  No. 10,  Im Wald
  3.  No. 11,  Unbekanntes Lied
  4.  No. 12,  Ausflug mit ungarischen Freunden ins Freie
  5.  No. 13,  Die breite Donau
  6.  No. 14,  Der Tanz
  7.  No. 2,  Der Vergnügungspark
  8.  No. 3,  Abend an dem Fluss
  9.  No. 4,  Sonntagsausflug
  10.  No. 5,  Ich hatte eine Ziege
  11.  No. 6,  Die Hirtenflöte
  12.  No. 7,  Die alte Burg
  13.  No. 8,  Im Zoo
  14.  No. 9,  Kirche in Buda

CD 2

Giya Kancheli : 33 Miniatures for Piano (Excerpts)

  1.  No. 1, Calando
  2.  No. 11, Con eleganza
  3.  No. 12, Luminoso
  4.  No. 13, Quasi ragtime
  5.  No. 14, Con eleganza
  6.  No. 15,Sostenuto
  7.  No. 16, Calmo
  8.  No. 18, Andantino
  9.  No. 2, Lontano,molto rubato
  10.  No. 20, Calando
  11.  No. 22, Grazioso
  12.  No. 23,Cantabile, lontanissimo
  13.  No. 24, Pesante
  14.  No. 25, Con dolore
  15.  No. 27, Rubato
  16.  No. 3, Pastoso
  17.  No. 30,Dolcissimo
  18.  No. 32,Sostenuto
  19.  No. 4, Marciale,con brio
  20.  No. 5, Quasi recitando
  21.  No. 6, Calando
  22.  No. 9,Disinvolto

Elisaveta Blumina prefers playing character pieces. This may be because, even as a child, she was attracted to the ballet and her most fervent wish was to become a ballerina.
This wish was never to be fulfilled ("You are too tall", they said at the ballet school", but it had a significant impact in her understanding of music:
Through the perception of dance, of movements and the characters involved, she can get a better feeling for the music.
The fundamental reason for the choice of repertoire on this album was that the works by Scriabin, Prokofiev, Weinberg, Frid and Kancheli also, for her, represent a retrospective connection to her home country.