Elegies and Visions Liudmila Georgievskaya

• Ellen Ruth Harrison (B. 1956): The Time Between:
• 1 Harrison: The Time Between: I. A Hint of Gold 05:20
• 2 Harrison: The Time Between: II. Blue Streak 05:02
• 3 Harrison: The Time Between: III. A Deepening Violet 04:06
• Jonathan Cziner (b. 1991): Elegy:
• 4 Cziner: Elegy 04:30
• Thomas Schwan (b. 1985): Notturno, Op. 14:
• 5 Schwan: Notturno, Op. 14 14:46
• Edward Green (b. 1951): On Deeper Reflection:
• 6 Green: On Deeper Reflection 02:50
• Ralf Yusuf Gawlick (b. 1969): Mysterium dolores quintae (Tropen-Kreuz):
• 7 Gawlick: Mysterium dolores quintae (Tropen-Kreuz) 20:59
• Total Runtime 57:33

Info zu Elegies and Visions

"This album presents some of the most profound and spiritually significant works I've encountered in piano music written over the past thirty years. As a performer, I've developed a strong personal connection to each of these works, despite their astonishing diversity of language and compositional style-a hallmark of our time. Ellen Harrison's enchanting suite, The Time Between (2020), conveys a wide range of subtle emotions with incredible timbral and psychological sophistication; with an almost cinematic feel, its titles synesthetically evoke nuances of color and fleeting sensations of distance, nostalgia, and melancholy. Jonathan Cziner's Elegy (2014) is a two-page work of astonishing brevity, miraculously building from a transparent and intimate lament to a solemn, bell-like conclusion of universal significance. Thomas Schwan's Notturno (2025), the beating heart of this album, affirms a cosmic understanding of the soul's suffering, faith, fragility, passion, tragedy, contemplation, and turmoil. Edward Green's On Deeper Reflection (2024) is a miniature of poignant beauty, rigorous in its contrapuntal writing and imbued with profound philosophical meaning. The album's grand finale is Ralf Gawlick's Mysterium doloris quintae (1997), a timeless and heartfelt depiction of existence as a realm of universally shared suffering, where mercy and grace timidly yet powerfully find their way, offering salvation and comfort in the face of evil." (Liudmila Georgievskaya)

Liudmila Georgievskaya, piano

Liudmila Georgievskaya
Concert pianist, recording artist, and an internationally sought-after pedagogue, Dr. Liudmila Georgievskaya was hailed for her “absolute art, technique, and musicality” by Scherzo Magazine (Spain) and “a sharp, inquisitive mind shaping the performance” by The Guardian (UK).

Winner of top prizes in more than a dozen national and international piano competitions, she has performed in Russia, Italy, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, France, Netherlands, England, Hungary, Cuba, Panama, and the United States. Her performances were broadcast on radio and television programs in Russia, the United States, Uzbekistan, Italy, and Vatican City.

She appeared many times as a soloist with orchestras in Russia, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. Her solo CD with music by Beethoven and Schumann, published in 2013 by Odradek Records, was received enthusiastically by the international press and won two Global Music Awards.

She is a member of Voices of Change, one of the most distinguished new music ensembles in the United States. She also performs in piano duo with her husband Thomas Schwan and with her sister Olga Georgievskaya.

An inheritor of the Russian piano school, she studied in Moscow with Tatiana Galitskaya and Liudmila Roschina, both former pupils of the legendary Russian pianist Samuil Feinberg, Alexander Goldenweiser’s pupil and disciple. She graduated from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory summa cum laude. She then completed a post-graduate course with Sergio Perticaroli at the Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome (Italy), followed by the Artist Certificate program at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, USA) with Joaquín Achúcarro. She earned her Doctorate in Piano Performance degree with Dr. Pamela Mia Paul at the University of North Texas. ​

Dr. Georgievskaya is now a full-time Assistant Professor of Piano at the renowned University of North Texas in Denton, USA. She is in high demand for recitals and masterclasses worldwide.

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