大象传媒

Tom Borrow plays Scriabin and Ema Nikolovska sings Martin暖.

The Anglo-Israeli pianist, Tom Borrow is heard in a recent recording he made at the 大象传媒 studios of Scriabin's fiendishly difficult Fifth Sonata. Written soon after his orchestral epic The Poem of Ecstasy, the sonata touches on similar ideas. Scriabin wrote of the sonata: "It is a big poem for piano and I deem it the best composition I have ever written. I do not know by what miracle I accomplished it." After that, Ema Nikolovska sings four of Martinu's folk-inflected songs - with an accordion for accompaniment - with texts taken from a treasury of fairy tales.

Scriabin: Piano Sonata no.5 in F sharp major, Op.53
Tom Borrow (piano)

Martinu: Touha (Yearning), Zv臎dav茅 diev膷a (The Inquisitive Girl), Vesel茅 diev膷a (The Happy Girl) and Smutn媒 mil媒 (The Mournful Lover) from Nov媒 艩pal铆膷ek (New Chap-Book), H. 288
Ema Nikolovska (mezzo-soprano) Samuele Telari (accordion)

Harold Mabern arr Rob Luft: Rakin and Scrapin
Rob Luft (guitar) with Dave O'Higgins (tenor sax), Misha Mullov-Abbado ( bass), Rod Youngs (drums), Ross Stanley (piano)