Coming to Divine Art in Summer 2023: Scriabin Piano Music from Alfonso Soldano

Divine Art Recordings will be releasing a new album by the accomplished virtuoso pianist Alfonso Soldano, containing a program of piano works by Alexander Scriabin. The collection includes one sonata and many of the composer’s more popular Études and other shorter works and is intended to be the first instalment in a Complete Piano Works edition. Scriabin (1872-1915) was in his early career highly influenced by Chopin, composing in a late Romantic idiom but later developed his own very distinctive advanced tonality, becoming one of the most controversial composers of the early 20th century, inspired by synesthesia (association of colours with sound), sensualism and theosophy. Since the 1970s his works have become very well-established and appreciated.

Alfonso Soldano (b, 1986) was one of the most favoured pupils of Aldo Ciccolini. He has won many piano competitions, sits as juror in others and gives masterclasses throughout Italy. He is recognised for his breathtaking virtuosity coupled with a deep sense of the musical spirit of each piece he performs. He is currently Professor of Piano Performance at the Conservatorio U. Giordano in Foggia, Italy and Artistic Director of the Aldo Ciccolini European Arts Academy Foundation in Trani, Italy. (A more extensive biography can be supplied). His previous recordings for Divine Art – of Rachmaninoff, Bortkiewicz and Castlnuovo-Tedesco – have been met with much acclaim.

The album is due to be recorded in Trani soon and is likely to be scheduled for release in the late summer of 2023.

Album details

Title: ‘Enigma’ – Scriabin Piano Works (vol. 1)
Label: Divine Art
Catalog number: DDA 25243
Artist: Alfonso Soldano
Composer: Alexander Scriabin