Scriabin: Vers La Flamme

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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Vers La Flamme
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

[ Decca / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 20 April 2015

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Vladimir Ashkenazy has been a lifelong champion of the music of his compatriot Scriabin. For the composer's anniversary year he has recorded a selection of works which span the entire output of Scriabin's works for solo piano: an extraordinary musical journey from late-romanticism to the mystic modernism of his last works.

A prelude by Scriabin's youngest son Yulian - a promising composer and pianist who died tragically young aged eleven - completes this new recording.

Ashkenazy brings a lifetime's experience as well as his inimitable musicality and vision to this music in definitive performances. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Scriabin's death (1872-1915), one of music's great visionaries and a musician worthy of major re-assessment.

Decca flies the flag for Scriabin with two major releases: The Complete Works plus this brand new recording of solo piano works.

"Ashkenazy's chronological trawl overlaps significantly with Garrick Ohlsson's survey of Scriabin's Poèmes...but Ashkenazy's approach is quite different - more reflective and sometimes indulgent, very much viewing these pieces through the prism of Romanticism rather than that of modernism." (The Guardian)

Tracks:

Étude Op. 2 No. 1 in C sharp minor
Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 6
Mazurka in E minor, Op. 3 No. 7
Mazurka in E flat minor, Op. 3 No. 10
Étude Op. 8 No. 5 in E major
Étude Op. 8 No. 7 in B flat minor
Étude Op. 8 No. 10 in D flat major
Étude Op. 8 No. 11 in B flat minor
Étude Op. 8 No. 12 in D sharp minor
Preludes, Op. 22 (4)
8 Etudes, Op. 42
3 Pieces Op. 45
Trois Morceaux Op. 52
Two Pieces, Op. 57
2 Poems for Piano, Op. 63
Poèmes, Op. 69 Nos. 1 & 2
Deux poèmes Op. 71
Preludes, Op. 74 (5)

Yulian Alexandrovich Scriabin:
Preludes, Op. 3 No. 1