Piano Classics

The Scriabin Dynasty

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Composer
Robert Cornman, Julian Cornman, Pascale Lazarus, Daniel Lazarus, Paul de Schlozer, Alexander Scriabi
Artist
Matteo Cardelli
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Piano Classics
Released
Sep 04, 2026
Catalog #
PCL10334
UPC
5063758103343

About

An illuminating introduction to the musical riches of the wider Scriabin family, unrivalled in the catalogue, presenting many unfamiliar names and unknown pieces within the noble lineage of the Russian piano tradition. In a generous 85-minute survey, the pianist Matteo Cardelli presents piano music composed over a period of exactly 150 years by musicians who are all related (either by blood or by marriage) to Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915). Scriabin took his first lessons at the piano with his mother, who had studied with the renowned pedagogue Theodor Leschetitzky at the conservatoire in St Petersburg. This chronologically ordered recital presents some of the striking pieces from his adolescence, including a pair of fugues and a more elaborate Fantasy in A minor, The most extensive piece on the album is the little-known 'Symphonic Allegro' which Scriabin wrote in 1896, possibly as the first movement of a never-completed symphony, and which Leonid Sabaneyev then transcribed (after the composer's death) as a Poeme en forme d'une sonate. Julian was the sixth of Scriabin's seven children, born in 1908 to his mistress Tatiana Shlotzer; Paul de Schlozer was Tatiana's uncle. Julian drowned in the Dnieper river at the age of just 11;the maturity of those few compositions he left is all the more remarkable: the Prelude Op.2 is the longest and most complex of them, alternating a hypnotic, suspended harmonic sequence with a tumultuous Presto, and thus evoking the same fantastical world created by his father in later compositions such as the Fifth Piano Sonata. Also born to Tatiana was Marina, the last of Scriabin's children, in 1911. Living until 1998, she composed this rigorously ordered, atonal set of theme and variations at some point in the 1940s. Daniel Lazarus was Scriabin's grandson, born to his fifth child Ariadna, and his set of Six Pieces reflect the turbulent era of their composition in the early 1920s, evoking styles from Schubert to Prokofiev. Robert Cornman married Ariadna's eldest daughter, Tatiana-Myriam; his Sonata brevis owes something to Copland. Their son - and thus Scriabin's great-grandson - is Julian Cornman, born in 1953, whose Rondeau adopts a neo-Baroque language with a sidelong glance at musical history. In this way, Matteo Cardelli takes the listener on a musical journey through the Scriabin, de Schloezer, Lazarus and Cornman families, from Romantic piano studies based on Liszt's models to the current postmodern era, through the complex and tragic history of the 20th century and up to the present day.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1 in E-Flat Major 03:28
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 in E-Flat Major
    Duration
    03:28
    Composer
    Paul de Schlozer
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  2. 2 No. 2 in A-Flat Major 03:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2 in A-Flat Major
    Duration
    03:47
    Composer
    Paul de Schlozer
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  3. 3 Fugue in F Minor, WoO 12 03:59
    Track
    3
    Title
    Fugue in F Minor, WoO 12
    Duration
    03:59
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  4. 4 Fugue in E Minor, WoO 20 03:30
    Track
    4
    Title
    Fugue in E Minor, WoO 20
    Duration
    03:30
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  5. 5 I. Fantaisie, en la mineur, WoO 18 [1889] 08:26
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. Fantaisie, en la mineur, WoO 18 [1889]
    Duration
    08:26
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  6. 6 II. Poème en forme d'une sonate, in D Minor, WoO 24 [1896] 18:19
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. Poème en forme d'une sonate, in D Minor, WoO 24 [1896]
    Duration
    18:19
    Composer
    Alexander Scriabin
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  7. 7 Prelude in C Major, Op. 2 03:06
    Track
    7
    Title
    Prelude in C Major, Op. 2
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Julian Scriabin
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  8. 8 Prelude No. 1 in B Major 01:27
    Track
    8
    Title
    Prelude No. 1 in B Major
    Duration
    01:27
    Composer
    Julian Scriabin
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  9. 9 Prelude No. 2 00:33
    Track
    9
    Title
    Prelude No. 2
    Duration
    00:33
    Composer
    Julian Scriabin
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  10. 10 Prelude, WoO 02:19
    Track
    10
    Title
    Prelude, WoO
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    Daniel Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  11. 11 No. 1. Moderato 01:16
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. Moderato
    Duration
    01:16
    Composer
    Daniel Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  12. 12 No. 2. Modéré et très souple 01:56
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. Modéré et très souple
    Duration
    01:56
    Composer
    Daniel Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  13. 13 No. 3. Andante molto 02:10
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 3. Andante molto
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    Daniel Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  14. 14 No. 4. Vivace ma non troppo 01:24
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 4. Vivace ma non troppo
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Daniel Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  15. 15 No. 5. Andantino espressivo 01:59
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 5. Andantino espressivo
    Duration
    01:59
    Composer
    Daniel Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  16. 16 No. 6. Allegro molto marcato 01:19
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 6. Allegro molto marcato
    Duration
    01:19
    Composer
    Daniel Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  17. 17 Thème et variations 06:17
    Track
    17
    Title
    Thème et variations
    Duration
    06:17
    Composer
    Marina Scriabine
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  18. 18 Sonata brevis 07:49
    Track
    18
    Title
    Sonata brevis
    Duration
    07:49
    Composer
    Robert Cornman
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  19. 19 Rondeau 04:39
    Track
    19
    Title
    Rondeau
    Duration
    04:39
    Composer
    Julian Cornman
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli
  20. 20 Traces 07:54
    Track
    20
    Title
    Traces
    Duration
    07:54
    Composer
    Pascale Lazarus
    Performer
    Matteo Cardelli