Bogyeong Lee - A Story of Life - Piano Works of Émile Naoumoff (2022)

Born in Sofia in 1962, Emile Naoumoff was just five years old when he began studying piano. His parents brought the young prodigy to Paris at the age of seven into the tutelage of Nadia Boulanger, one of the greatest music teachers of the 20th century. Herself a pupil of Gabriel Fauré, she chose Emile to be her final disciple carrying her musical legacy forward, calling him the gift of her old age. Naoumoff’s 10 years studying very intensely with her were both rigorous and nurturing, inspiringly revealing his individual artistic and creative path. That excellence seeking placed Naoumoff into a musical circle of auspicious mentors such as Clifford Curzon, Igor Markevitch, Robert and Gaby Casadesus, Nikita Magaloff, Jean Françaix, Henri Dutilleux, Leonard Bernstein, Soulima Stravinsky, Aram Khachaturian, Sviatoslav Richter and, notably, Lord Yehudi Menhuin, who conducted the premiere of Naoumoff’s first piano concerto when the composer at the piano was just 10 years old.

Track List:
1. Valse pour Nadia
2. Danses Bulgares: I. Ruchenitsa
3. Danses Bulgares: II. Bavna Ruchenitsa
4. Danses Bulgares: III. Païdushko Horo – Canon
5. Flowing Souletude
6. Nocturno
7. Pastorale
8. Burlesque Brillante
9. Quatre Préludes: I. Meditatif
10. Quatre Préludes: II. Plaintif
11. Quatre Préludes: III. Tourbillonnant
12. Quatre Préludes: IV. Rhapsodique
13. Four Inventions: II. Invention No. 1
14. Four Inventions: II. Invention No. 2
15. Four Inventions: III. Invention No. 3
16. Four Inventions: IV. Invention No. 4
17. Requiem
18. Seven Sisters Ballade
19. Menuet
20. Bulgaria 1300