This album explores the luminous thread between Alexander Scriabin’s late
musical visions and my own compositional voice. At its center stands his Sonata
No. 10, a work in which the romantic influence of Chopin gives way to mystical
abstraction, strange harmonies, and radiant textures. Alongside it, ephemeral and
glowing with otherworldly lyricism, are the 2 Poèmes. My own piece, Celeste, is
both an homage and a continuation. Shaped by Scriabin’s unusual harmonic
structure and ecstatic spirit, it begins in shadow with a chaconne-like theme and
gradually ascends, dissolving into the piano’s upper registers – a gesture toward
light, transcendence, and heaven.
– Gayane Aslanyan, pianist and composer