Born in Moscow in 2003 into a family of musicians and filmmakers, Greek-Russian pianist Sasha Stychkina is the youngest finalist and winner in the history of the Marguerite Long International Piano Competition held in Paris in November 2019. She now presents her first recital, recorded at the Teldex Studio in Berlin under the artistic direction of her teacher, the charismatic and renowned pianist Kirill Gerstein. The decidedly eclectic program - Weber, Bartok, Ravel, Chopin, Liszt - is by turns virtuosic, dance-like and spiritual. Sasha Stychkina also introduces us to a little-known composer: Alexei Vladimirovich Stanchinsky (1888-1914), a mystical figure who was considered insane - he spent a year in a psychiatric institution - and drowned at the age of 26. As a pupil of Taneyev, encouraged by Scriabin and introduced to Tolstoy, the composer had a promising future ahead of him. The Five Preludes (1907-1912, published posthumously in 1928) selected by Sasha Stychkina are particularly evocative and visionary.

Maurice Ravel: Menuet sur le Nom de Haydn
+Alexei Stanchinsky: 5 Preludes
+Frederic Chopin: Walzer Nr. 5
+Carl Maria von Weber: Klaviersonate Nr. 1 C-Dur op. 24
+Bela Bartok: 3 Etüden op. 18
+Franz Liszt: Variationen über "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen"