The Early Scriabin

Review: InternationalPiano Aleksander Nikolayevich Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 (1892) 1. I. Allegro con fuoco 2. II. Adagio 3. III. Presto 4. IV. Funèbre 2 Nocturnes Op. 5 (1890) 5. No. 1 in F sharp minor – Andante 6. No. 2 in A major – Allegretto 3 Pieces Op. 2 (1887) 7.  No. 1, Etude in C sharp minor 8. No. 2. Prélude in B major 9. No. 3. Impromptu à la Mazur in C major 24 Preludes, Op. 11 (1888-1896) 10. No. 1 in C major – Vivace 11. No. 2 in A minor – Allegretto 12. No. 3 in G major – Vivo 13. No. 4 in E minor – Lento 14. No. 5 in D major – Andante cantabile 15. No. 6 in B minor – Allegro 16. No. 7 in A major – Allegro assai 17. No. 8 in F sharp minor – Allegro agitato 18. No. 9 in E major – Andantino 19. No. 10 in C sharp minor – Andante 20. No. 11 in B major – Allegro assai 21. No. 12 in G sharp minor – Andante 22. No. 13 in G flat major – Lento 23. No. 14 in E flat minor – Presto 24. No. 15 in D flat major – Lento 25. No. 16 in B flat minor – Misterioso 26. No. 17 in A flat major – Allegretto 27. No. 18 in F minor – Allegro agitato 28. No. 19 in E flat major – Affettuoso 29. No. 20 in C minor – Appassionato 30. No. 21 in B flat major – Andante 31. No. 22 in G minor – Lento 32. No. 23 in F major – Vivo 33. No. 24 in D minor – Presto Alexander Scriabin © Alexander Scriabin first encountered the music of Frederic Chopin at the age of 12. The experience would prove formative for him, and momentous for the course of 20th-century music. In the latter half of that century, Scriabin appeared an exotic outlier, exerting more influence on musicians, and specifically the ‘Russian Piano School’, than on later composers. What perplexed earlier writers and listeners, in the distance travelled by Scriabin between the music of his early and late periods, may be assimilated in retrospect, as the life lived and the voice trained by a single, remarkable individual. We continue to develop more informed insights into the early music of his contemporaries, the more renowned radicals such as Schoenberg and Stravinsky, and how the seeds of their musical revolutions germinated within the rich soil of late Romanticism. So much is true also of Scriabin: everyone has to come from somewhere. RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 2025 CATALOGUE NUMBER: DACOCD 1000 EAN: 5709499100004 Download BOOKLET (PDF)   Related