In intimate, nostalgic and nuanced performances, the pianist delivers a compelling reading of some of the Russian composer’s most emblematic works.

At 90, radiant with vitality and expressiveness, Sverner — trained at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, where she received a gold medal, and at the Mannes College of Music in New York under Leonard Shure, a direct pupil of Artur Schnabel — returns to the enigmatic world of Alexander Scriabin with the naturalness of someone who has lived with this repertoire for decades. PRELUDES AND POEMS traverses works from Op. 11, Op. 13, Op. 16 and Op. 27, alongside the 2 Poèmes Op. 32 — pages that move between delicacy and intensity, beauty and pain, in a language of rare emotional depth.

Historically a composer difficult to categorize, Scriabin created works that resist easy definition — at times pre-Impressionist, at times associated with late Romanticism. The mystical character of his inspirations cast an aura of mystery and symbolism over his music, present in melodies that are at once ethereal and harmonically daring, anticipating atonal digressions and the layering of multiple chords that would become hallmarks of his late output.