Chopin: 26 Preludes / Scriabin: Sonate No. 2 Op. 19 Béatrice Rana

• Frederick Chopin (1810-1849): Préludes op. 28
• 1No. 1 in C Major00:41
• 2No. 2 in A Minor02:17
• 3No. 3 in G Major00:54
• 4No. 4 in E Minor02:17
• 5No. 5 in D Major00:39
• 6No. 6 in B Minor02:09
• 7No. 7 in A Major00:37
• 8No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor01:59
• 9No. 9 in E Major01:41
• 10No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor00:33
• 11No. 11 in B Major00:42
• 12No. 12 in G-Sharp Minor01:12
• 13No. 13 in F-Sharp Major03:36
• 14No. 14 in E-Flat Minor00:33
• 15No. 15 in D-Flat Major, Raindrop05:25
• 16No. 16 in B-Flat Minor01:07
• 17No. 17 in A-Flat Major03:23
• 18No. 18 in F Minor00:57
• 19No. 19 in E-Flat Major01:15
• 20No. 20 in C Minor01:56
• 21No. 21 in B-Flat Major01:57
• 22No. 22 in G Minor00:41
• 23No. 23 in F Major00:54
• 24No. 24 in D minor02:28
• 25Prelude No. 25 in C sharp minor, Op. 4504:42
• 26Prelude No. 26 in A flat major, Op. posth00:52
• Alexandre Scriabine (1871-1915): Sonate no 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19
• 27I. Andante08:30
• 28II. Presto04:06
• Total Runtime58:03

Info for Chopin: 26 Preludes / Scriabin: Sonate No. 2 Op. 19

In June 2011, Beatrice Rana, then 18, became the youngest-ever winner of a first prize at the Montreal International Music Competition. She also won each of that year’s special prizes. She is, said Le Devoir, “not only a pianist but, above all, an artist.” Her ATMA solo CD is dedicated to Chopin’s Preludes Op. 28 and Scriabin’s Sonata No. 2 Op.19 — thrilling repertoire for an outstanding young pianist.

Beatrice Rana made her debut last season with several orchestras, including the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, the Südwestdeutsche Orchester, and the Aarhus Symfonieorkester in Denmark. She also performed as a guest artist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, the symphony orchestras of Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg, the Kuala Lumpur Philharmonic Orchestra, the Violons du Roy, and the Orchestre Métropolitain with Yannick Nézet-Seguin.

Beatrice Rana made her debut last season with several orchestras, including the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, the Südwestdeutsche Orchester, and the Aarhus Symfonieorkester in Denmark. She also performed as a guest artist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, the symphony orchestras of Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg, the Kuala Lumpur Philharmonic Orchestra, the Violons du Roy, and the Orchestre Métropolitain with Yannick Nézet-Seguin.

In addition to her First Prize in the Montreal Piano Competition last year, Rana has won numerous prizes at international competitions such as the Muzio Clementi Competion, the Concours International de San Marino, and the Bang & Olufsen Piano RAMA Competion.

Beatrice Rana, piano

Beatrice Rana
At barely 20 years old, Beatrice Rana has shaken the international classical music world already and aroused admiration and interest from concert presenters, conductors, critics and audiences in many countries. In June 2013, she won Silver (2nd Prize) and the Audience Award at the highly prestigious Van Cliburn competition, bringing her to yet a new level in her already very promising career. She had attracted international attention at 18, winning 1st Prize and all special prizes at the Montreal International competition in 2011.

Beatrice is invited in concert series and festivals throughout the world, such as Zurich’s Tonhalle, London’s Wigmore Hall, Milan’s Società dei Concerti, Paris’ Auditorium du Louvre, La Roque d’Anthéron international piano festival, the Ruhr Klavier Festival, Radio-France Festival in Montpellier, Piano aux Jacobins Festival in Toulouse, Lanaudière Festival in Quebec, the Vancouver Recital Society, La Folle Journée Festival in Nantes, Busoni Festival in Bolzano. She is now also a guest of several major venues in the United-States.

A guest of several orchestras internationally, she will debut with Yannick Nézet-Seguin in Montreal in 2013 and with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2015. She will play at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in 2014 under Fayçal Karoui and with Miguel Harth-Bedoya in 2013. Beatrice has played with Leonard Slatkin, Joshua Weilerstain, Fabien Gabel, Bernard Labadie.

A recipient of an impressive number of first prizes in national and international piano competitions, such as “Muzio Clementi” Competition, “International Piano Competition of the Republic of San Marino” and "Bang&Olufsen PianoRAMA Competition”, Beatrice was selected in 2010 among 60 participants as one of the six pianists allowed to take part in the Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Prize. She now studies with Arie Verdi at the Hannover Hochschule.

Born to a family of musicians in 1993, Beatrice Rana made her debuts as a soloist with orchestra at the age of 9, performing Bach Concerto in F minor. Beatrice began her musical studies at four and achieved her Piano Degree at the age of sixteen with top marks, laude and honorable mention under the guidance of Benedetto Lupo at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Music in Monopoli, where she also studied composition with Marco della Sciucca. During her studies, she was awarded at the age of twelve the prestigious scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research for her great and very precocious musical talent. At the same time she attended masterclasses in Italy, France and United States with artists such as M. Beroff, A. Ciccolini, A. Jasinski, F. J. Thioillier, E. Virsaladze.

Beatrice recorded Chopin’s Preludes on the Atma label in 2012, together with Scriabine’s 2nd Sonata, and received international acclaim for this first CD.

Booklet for Chopin: 26 Preludes / Scriabin: Sonate No. 2 Op. 19