Refining Fire: A Journey of the Soul

From Darkness to Light through Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, and Liszt

This program traces a powerful spiritual and emotional arc—a soul tested by fire and transformed through sound. From the radiant clarity of Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata to the turbulent drive of Rachmaninoff’s Etude-Tableau, the relentless urgency of Prokofiev’s Seventh Sonata, and the visionary depths of Liszt’s Dante Sonata, each piece is a passage through inner struggle toward light.

Refining Fire explores the idea that tribulation does not consume but purifies—like fire that tempers gold. In these works, music becomes not only expression but transformation.