Scriabin: Piano works
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Composer or Director: Alexander Scriabin
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 10/1987
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 53
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 414 353-2DH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Piano No. 1 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 6 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 8 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
(4) Pieces |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Composer or Director: Alexander Scriabin
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 10/1987
Media Format: Vinyl
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 414 353-1DH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Piano No. 1 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 6 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 8 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
(4) Pieces |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Composer or Director: Alexander Scriabin
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 10/1987
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 414 353-4DH
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Sonata for Piano No. 1 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 6 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Sonata for Piano No. 8 |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
(4) Pieces |
Alexander Scriabin, Composer
Alexander Scriabin, Composer Vladimir Ashkenazy, Piano |
Author:
The Four Pieces of Op. 51 lay bare the sources of some of the mature Scriabin's most characteristic utterances—the second Chopin Prelude for the lugubrious No. 2, Schumann's Vogel als Prophet for the ecstatic ''Poeme aile''. And the Sixth Sonata surely shows that at least some of his representations of evil derive from Ravel's Gaspard. The Sixth is a work of compelling strangeness, like the stirrings of inchoate primordial matter—I know Colin Matthews rates it as one of the formative influences on his own music. Its final 'delirious dance' actually rises to a D above the top note of the piano (could the piano tuner not have made this available for the recording, given that the top C is not used?). Ashkenazy plays with terrific sustained intensity here, and brings the piece off even more successfully, I feel, than he does the Eighth Sonata. The latter sounds a fraction calculated, and it makes rather less impression as a work, too, although its sense of drifting in and out, as though a fragment of a much longer process, is beautifully controlled.'
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