Towards the Flame - Scriabin & Langgaard

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 12, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LANGGAARD, SCRIABIN
    • PERFORMER
      Gustav Piekut
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 12, 2021
    • UPC
      747313431274
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8574312
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Feuillet d'album

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    2. No. 2. Poème fantasque

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    3. No. 3. Prélude

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    4. Sponsa Christi tædium vitæ, BVN 297

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    5. Piano Sonata No. 10 in C Major, Op. 70

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    6. I. Inflessibile mostruoso

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    7. II. Frenetico, quasi rondo

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    8. Piano Sonata No. 9 in F Major, Op. 68, "Black Mass"

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    9. Flammekamrene (The Flame Chambers), BVN 221

      Composer: Rued Langgaard

      Performer: Gustav Piekut

    10. Vers la flamme, Op. 72

      Composer: Alexander Scriabin

      Performer: Gustav Piekut


Both Scriabin and Langgaard believed that through their music they could pave the way for a spiritual revolution. The piano offered a perfect and very intimate medium for their highly personal harmonic and expressive vocabularies. Scriabin drew on daemonic associations in his Piano Sonata No. 9 to liberate the old tonal system, whereas Langgaard explored his youthful fascination with Catholicism in music of fanaticism and ecstasy. Langgaard’s The Flame Chambers and Scriabin’s Vers la flamme are feverish musical twins that exemplify both composers’ explosive intensity.