The first album of Orion Weiss's ambitious three-part Arc Trilogy (First Hand Records, 2022), exploring solo piano works from the frantic years of 1911–1913, the precipice before World War I. Granados's Goyescas, Janáček's In the Mists, and Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 9 "Black Mass" each grapple with an impossible awareness of what was coming, plunging further into modernity and despair. Gramophone praised the recording as "expansive, colorful, and texturally varied."
Program
- Granados: Goyescas
- Janáček: In the Mists
- Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, "Black Mass"