Anna Kuvaja FLUVIAL

Wonderful debut recording from one of the best young pianists in Finland. Sibelius' amazing versatility comes to the fore in his opus 74, the impressionistic hues and evocative sound-painting of which are connected on this recording to Ravel's play of the water. Byström is one of the very few Finnish composers of the classical era. The set of variations included here exhibits a fine and successful sense of drama. Schubert's A major sonata, the middle one of his last three, brings masterful large-scale thematicism, a stream of affects, and (above all) powerful expression to the programme. 

"As this CD, my debut recording, began to take shape, I felt it important to choose works that felt natural for me as a musician and which would also form a rounded whole as a piano recital. The works by well-known piano composers and Finnish composers which I interpret merge together so as to blur the underlying reflections between them" (Anna Kuvaja)