Album 'Eta Carinae' where Olga combines her passions for music of Scriabin and Busoni and astrophysics is available on bit.ly/olgacd2 (physical CD) and iTunes bit.ly/olgatunes1
‘Not a record for the faint-hearted but rather for those who enjoy dark and menacing regions of the mind. This is an outstanding debut…” - Gramophone Magazine
“Olga Stezhko makes a strong impression with this imaginative programme of little-played Scriabin and Busoni… In late Scriabin, Stezhko is excellent at weaving the music’s spell from its unique combination of rhythmic complexity, harmonic daring and evaporating sonorities...” - BBC Music Magazine
Olga Stezhko’s debut album features rarely performed pieces by Scriabin and Busoni, two of the most original and idiosyncratic artists of the beginning of the 20th century.
The period during which the works were composed (1912-1920) was extraordinary not only culturally but also in terms of scientific advancements and our understanding of the natural world: the structure of an atom, the first notions of quantum mechanics, and the theory of relativity.
The album takes its name from Eta Carinae - one of the massive binary star systems that we are able to study in great detail.
Each of the chosen compositions on the album is a masterpiece in its own right. However, if you listen to it as a whole, the music underpins a narrative that is simultaneously dark yet enlightening, distant yet immediate. It tells a story that can be seen as the timeline of the physical transformation of matter, which in turn serves as an allegory for the progression of human reason itself. The full musical and scientific concept is explored in the accompanying booklet essay.
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