Katia Skanavi - La Criee Live

This young artist has a graceful silhouette and determined step that match her singular approach to the piano, where she goes right up close, then draws back from it — but without hesitating and with no affectation, for dilatoriness is simply not in her nature. This method of literally plunging into the music leaves the listener very little time to ask questions. For once the information passes immediately there and then. No detail of Katia Skanavi’s performance of Schumann’s Carnaval can be omitted, from the initial fieriness that laid a slightly false trail to the quick return to a more even balance bringing innumerable moments of sheer bliss on paths of rare beauty.

1. Ambiance

Schumann: Carnaval

2. Preambule, Pierrot, Arlequin, Valse Noble, Eusebius

3. Florestan, Coquette, Replique, Sphynx, Papillions, ASCH-SCHA (lettres dansantes)

4. Chiarina, Chopin, Estrella, Recommaissance, Pantalon & Colombine

5. Valse Allemande - Paganini(Intermezzo), Aveu, Promenade, Pause, Marche des Davidsbundler contre les Philistins

Rachmaninov

6. Berceuse, dapres Tchaikovski

7. Prelude en ut majeur opus 23 no. 7

8. Prelude en sol majeur opus 32 no. 5

9. Prelude en si b majeur opus 23 no. 2

Haendel

10. Chaconne

Rachmaninov

11. Etude-tableau

Schubert

12. Moment Musical no.3 en fa mineur

Rachmaninov

13. Etude-tableau No. 4 Allegro assai en si mineur

Chopin

14. Prelude No. 7 en la majeur

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