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Scriabin's Mysterium: Universe and Mankind on their way to Transfiguration

By Olga de Kort, 01 December 2015
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“the path of transformation goes through an enormous smithy where a new world is being forged”
Reviewed at Concertgebouw: Main Hall, Amsterdam on 28 November 2015
Programme
Scriabin, Mysterium (unfinished) (Realized by Alexander Nemtin)
Performers
Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra (Radio Filharmonisch Orkest)
Netherlands Radio Choir (Groot Omroepkoor)
Markus Stenz, Conductor
Alexey Zuev, Piano
Marisol Montalvo, Soprano
Flemish Radio Choir
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Olga de Kort
Olga de Kort
Musicologist and music critic Olga de Kort (The Netherlands) studied in Russia (piano, culture sciences), France (journalism) and the Netherlands (musicology and music history, music education and communication, organ) where she has lived from 1998. She is active as a music journalist, lecturer in music history and culture and as a freelance musician. She writes for Piano Bulletin, Pianist, Luister, Preludium, De Klank, Het Orgel, Muziek&Liturgie, Kunstzone and Bachtrack. Besides her personal journalist blog, Olga de Kort has a website about Russian music in the Netherlands. At this moment she is working on a book about Russian music and musicians in the Netherlands and on a biography of Russian singer Anna El Tour.