Work: Vers la flamme, Op.72

The Canadian soprano and her accomplished accompanist, Bertrand Chamayou, offer a thoughtful and eclectic program of Messiaen, Scriabin and John Zorn.

To be dubbed “Liszt reincarnate” could be a mixed blessing for a young pianist. But there were moments here the Abbé himself would have treasured.

Armed with extraordinary precision, the Russian pianist brings as much elegance to his compatriots Rachmaninov and Scriabin as he does to Schubert.