Etude Medicale a L'extranger

In celebration of the Scriabin Centenary in 2015 this new recording presents the complete piano Etudes by the Russian Mystic. The three sets of Études clearly mark the development of Scriabin’s musical language: the Opus 8 is strongly influenced by Chopin and Scriabin’s friend and contemporary Rachmaninoff, the Opus 42 already show signs of his new and completely individual harmonic experiments, while Opus 65 are a blaze with his ideas about the mystical power of music, the forces of darkness and light. No better Scriabin advocate than Dmitri Alexeev, a pianist of unique technical and emotional powers, creeping under the skin of this fascinating music. Alexeev already recorded a highly acclaimed set of the complete Piano Sonatas by Scriabin, on BC 94388.

Depuis plus d'un siècle toutes les générations, du nouveau-né au vieillard, sont soumises à l'acte vaccinal, à une multitude de médications et thérapies foncièrement néfastes pour la santé, l'intellect, le psychisme. À force de propagande, le grand public est devenu malléable au point de suivre sans rechigner toutes les directives médicales en vigueur. Une minorité en mesure les conséquences dévastatrices. …

Kevin Volans is probably most famous for the 1984 Kronos reworking of White Man Sleeps. His beginnings in South Africa to the Neue Einfacheit (in English, New Simplicity) of West Germany with the theorist Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose seminal sine-waves and soundscapes shaped the landscape we understand in electronic music today, are well-documented. The Man With Footsoles of Wind, an opera about the enterprise of the influential poet Arthur Rimbaud in Ethiopia, remains very much on my ‘listening wishlist’. Volans is obviously a musicologist. He is undoubtedly a modernist. This is 2022. He has offered us Études, a collection of his own previously unreleased solo piano works performed by Jill Richards and a second-half where he performs Liszt. The listener has been invited into “a sound world” with “extremely complex and challenging arrangements”.

J'ai une passion : la santé illimité. Pour réaliser mon rêve, j'ai suivi un cours de médecine. Durant plusieurs années je fus convaincue d'être sur la bonne voie. La réalité fut tout autre. Les pensées et les émotions, ces invisibles et impalpables traîtresses, boycottaient insidieusement mon rigoureux travail scientifique. Je me tournai alors vers une autre avenue qui offrait d'autres solutions pour une santé globale : médecines douces, thérapies naturelles. Je parcourus de nombreux pays et découvris leurs bienfaits. …