From Mendelssohn To Ma... - Anastasiya Bazhenova - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

This album did not arise from an intention to contrast historical eras. It grew out of a reflection on the human condition — on how our inner landscape changes when the world around us loses its sense of stability. Mendelssohn’s music belongs to a time in which form still offered consolation. Clarity, proportion, and beauty were not decorative qualities, but ways of understanding oneself and reality. In the Songs Without Words, the human voice speaks quietly, as if trusting that it can still be heard without force. Yet even within this transparency, tension is present. Not as anxiety, but as premonition — the sense that balance is not given, but must be sustained. Mendelssohn’s Fantasia in F-sharp minor marks the moment when this balance becomes a conscious effort. Here, light and darkness no longer exist separately. They enter into direct confrontation. The music unfolds as an inner struggle between the desire for wholeness and the forces that threaten to dismantle it. Form remains — not as shelter, but as a field of resistance. Prokofiev’s Sixth Sonata opens the space beyond this rupture. It is music of a world that no longer promises stability, a world whose pace of change exceeds our ability to fully grasp it. Extreme states coexist here: fear and fury, despair and irony, melancholy, denial, paranoia — moments of cold clarity and sudden inner eruption. The music no longer seeks harmony;; it records reality in its most exposed form. The path from Mendelssohn to Prokofiev is neither forward nor backward. It is a movement inward — from trust in form to existence without guarantees, from beauty as support to the necessity of living without it. This album does not seek to explain or resolve. It allows the music to unfold as a continuous inner process. For Anastasiya Bazhenova, this program is not a collection of works, but a single inner trajectory — a musical narrative of a human being who continues to feel, to think, and to search for meaning even when the old order no longer holds.

Label: Etcetera | Origin: Holland