Alexandrov: Piano Music, Vol. 2 Kyung-Ah Noh

• Anatoli Nikolayevich Alexandrov (1888 - 1982): Two Pieces, Op. 3:
• 1No. 1. Nocturne04:52
• 2No. 2. Waltz04:28
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 12:
• 3Allegro agitato13:49
• Two Passages from the Music to M. Maeterlinck’s Drama ‘Ariana and Bluebeard’, Op. 16a:
• 4No. 1. Amethysts: Andante poetico01:36
• 5No. 2. The Enchanted Castle: Volando03:54
• Piano Sonata No. 4 in C major, Op. 19:
• 6I. Agitato mosso, con slancio vigoroso e gran' passione07:16
• 7II. Andante meditativo05:19
• 8III. Invocando, un poco sostenuto05:22
• Piano Sonata No. 1 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 4:
• 9Sonata Skazka07:29
• Piano Sonata No. 6 in G major, Op. 26:
• 10I. Allegretto grazioso05:02
• 11II. Adagio non troppo05:12
• 12III Intrada, alla improvisata - Alla marcia stravaganta04:53
• Little Suite No. 1, Op. 33:
• 13I. Fairy Lullaby: Tranquillo ma non troppo lento01:32
• 14II. Etude: Allegro assai01:48
• 15III Melodie: Lento, cantabile, espresso, dolce02:25
• 16IV. A Joke: Allegro con brio02:04
• Total Runtime01:17:01

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Anatoly Alexandrov (1888-1982) is one of the forgotten figures of the Russian school of pianism that embraced Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Skryabin, Shostakovich, Gilels and so many other composers and pianists. Alexandrov composed fourteen sonatas and much else for piano in an attractive late-Romantic style that owes much to Nikolai Medtner, his teacher and friend. This first volume in the first-ever survey of his piano music presents a conspectus of works composed between 1939 and 1962.

„Played like this you would be forgiven for assuming these virtually unknown scores had been part of her performing repertoire for years.“ (IRR)

Kyung-Ah Noh, piano

Kyung-Ah Noh
was born in 1982 in Seoul, South Korea. She started to play the piano at the age of seven and studied with Eun Kyung Park at Deokwon Art High School, playing in the KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) Exhibition Hall in Seoul as a representative of the Music Department. From 2001 until 2005 she took a Bachelor’s degree at the Kyung Hee University with Leda Kim and Joo Hyun Cho and received her Master’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, with Bruce Brubaker, in 2008. ere she was a winner in the Honor Competition, playing Busoni’s Toccata in Jordan Hall – a performance included on a CD of the New England Conservatory in 2009, NEC: It’s about the music. She participated in a Messiaen centenary concert in Jordan Hall and played as a representative of the piano department in an NEC ‘Commencement’ concert. She continued her studies with Joseph Banowetz at the University of North Texas in Denton, where she held a teaching fellowship for three years.

At home she has won a number of piano competitions, including those held by e Korea Daily News, the National Filial Piety Music Contest and the Korean Piano Academics Association in South Korea. Further a eld, she won rst prize in the International Piano Workshop Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, in 2010.

Her interest in chamber music was encouraged by coaching from Mai Motobuchi and Stephen Drury at the New England Conservatory of Music and with Igor Borodin, George Papich and Susan Dubois at the University of North Texas. She has participated in master-classes with Balázs Fülei, Joseph Standford, Mihail Milkov and Murray McLachlan. She holds the Peggy Boston Duggan piano scholarship at the University of North Texas, where in August 2014 she was awarded a doctoral degree, with a dissertation on Gordon Binkerd’s Intermezzo from Essays for the Piano (1976): A Comprehensive Analysis of Brahmsian Compositional Influence and Stylistic Elements.

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