Pianist Inna Faliks: 'Stranger Things' out July 24

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Pianist Inna Faliks' new album "Stranger Things" is released on July 24, 2026 on Navona Records

Recording features Brahms' monumental Third Piano Sonata alongside Elegy by Wagner and Schoenberg's Three Pieces, Op. 11

Album also includes two compositions by Faliks

Pianist Inna Faliks has recorded one of her most personal projects yet. "Stranger Things" is released on Navona Records on July 24, 2026. The album features music by Brahms, Schoenberg, Wagner, and two short works written by Faliks herself.

Anchoring the album is Brahms' monumental Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, which the pianist says is a lifetime piece for her. “It is both a masterful, architecturally elegant paean to Beethoven and the Sonata form, and an entirely unabashed Romantic outpouring in five movements," says Faliks.

The album also features Schoenberg's Three Pieces, Op. 11, Wagner's brief Elegy ("a farewell to tonality"), and two works that the composer-pianist wrote as she was emigrating from the Ukraine as a Jewish refugee. "I was always a little sad that composition took a back seat to my piano playing. Instead, I focused on other creative interdisciplinary projects, new music by others, and writing. I recently took out these old piano pieces, edited them, and began playing them."

One of the works written by Faliks, Wandering Stranger, includes sections in which the pianist uses her voice, a parallel to Schoenberg’s choice to add a soprano part to his String Quartet No. 2. Faliks writes: "I don't remember why I decided to include a vocal part in this work. Perhaps I couldn’t find a better way to communicate the strangeness of leaving my home for good."

Together, the works on "Stranger Things" reflect the musical forces that have shaped Faliks' artistic voice. The album follows her critically acclaimed book "Weight in the Fingertips: A Musical Odyssey from Soviet Ukraine to the World Stage" (Bloomsbury, 2023) and her album "Manuscripts Don’t Burn" (2024).

Contact ClassicalCommunications@gmail.com to request a physical CD of "Stranger Things" by pianist Inna Faliks. Links to the digital album are below.