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Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas / Donohoe
SOMM Recordings

Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas / Donohoe

$32.99

Details

Composer
SCRIABIN, ALEXANDER
Artist
Peter, Donohoe
Format
CD
Label
SOMM Recordings
Released
Feb 03, 2017
Catalog #
SOMMCD 262-2
UPC
748871326224

About

Russia produced three renowned composer-pianists at the end of the nineteenth century: Medtner, Rachmaninov, and his fellow student at the Moscow Conservatoire, Alexander Scriabin, a unique figure in Russian music as he seemed to follow a musical path all his own, completely different to that of either of his contemporaries. He created an original, exotic soundworld which progressed from Chopinesque romanticism in the First Sonata to a world of fantasy, inhabited by uncompromising, audacious dissonances in the later Sonatas which make overwhelming demands on any performer who dares to tackle them. In his third Sonata Scriabin provided descriptions of the four movements under the heading ‘States of the Soul’. In the Fourth he experimented with Wagner’s Tristan harmonies. By the Sixth Sonata Scriabin’s harmonic tonality had completely broken down and dissipated – “frightening...dark and mysterious, impure, dangerous” as he himself wrote. The Seventh Sonata (White Mass) instructs the performer to play ‘with a heavenly voluptuousness’, ‘with a dark majesty’... Through the music he wanted to express an ecstatic disorder creating a trance-like effect on performer and audience. The Ninth (Black Mass) represents the Satanic but the Tenth has an opening marked ‘very sweetly and pure’. He said of this, ‘My Tenth Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun, they are the kisses of the sun.’ These works are performed by legendary pianist Peter Donahoe.

Tracklist 19 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Allegro con fuoco 09:13
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro con fuoco
    Duration
    09:13
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  3. 2 II. [Andante] 05:01
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. [Andante]
    Duration
    05:01
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  4. 3 III. Presto 03:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Presto
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  5. 4 IV. Funebre 06:29
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Funebre
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  6. 5 I. Andante 08:13
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    08:13
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  7. 6 II. Presto 03:56
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Presto
    Duration
    03:56
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  8. 7 I. Drammatico 06:48
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Drammatico
    Duration
    06:48
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  9. 8 II. Allegretto 02:24
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Allegretto
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  10. 9 III. Andante 04:01
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  11. 10 IV. Presto con fuoco 05:25
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Presto con fuoco
    Duration
    05:25
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  12. 11 I. Andante 02:59
    Track
    11
    Title
    I. Andante
    Duration
    02:59
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  13. 12 II. Prestissimo volando 04:40
    Track
    12
    Title
    II. Prestissimo volando
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  14. 13 Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 12:05
    Track
    13
    Title
    Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
    Duration
    12:05
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  15. Disc 2
  16. 1 Piano Sonata No. 6 in G Major, Op. 62 13:13
    Track
    1
    Title
    Piano Sonata No. 6 in G Major, Op. 62
    Duration
    13:13
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  17. 2 Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64, "White Mass" 11:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64, "White Mass"
    Duration
    11:47
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  18. 3 Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Major, Op. 66 13:27
    Track
    3
    Title
    Piano Sonata No. 8 in A Major, Op. 66
    Duration
    13:27
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  19. 4 Piano Sonata No. 9 in F Major, Op. 68, "Black Mass" 07:52
    Track
    4
    Title
    Piano Sonata No. 9 in F Major, Op. 68, "Black Mass"
    Duration
    07:52
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  20. 5 Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, Op. 70 12:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, Op. 70
    Duration
    12:59
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe
  21. 6 Vers la flamme, Op. 72 06:29
    Track
    6
    Title
    Vers la flamme, Op. 72
    Duration
    06:29
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Peter Donohoe