Scriabin - Complete Piano Sonatas
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Label: Piano Classics
Cat No: PCL10168
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 11th October 2019
Contents
Artists
Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)About
Scriabin’s cycle of ten piano sonatas charts a wild and unpredictable journey from the apotheosis of Romantic piano writing in the first two sonatas through narratives of stars, sky, light and darkness, desire, fire and flight, and the tormented yearning of the artist in the middle-period works, to a state of visionary grace in the Tenth and final sonata. Relatively compact works, several of them cast in a single movement no longer than 10 minutes, they each nonetheless inhabit a discrete and intoxicating sound world of their own, and great pianists throughout the last century have stamped their own authority and personality upon them.
Now comes the Italian pianist Vincenzo Maltempo, already garlanded with critical praise for his concert performances and discography on Brilliant Classics. Maltempo contributes his own, thoughtful essay to this new recording, and it reveals him giving full value to Scriabin the mystic, the composer who attempted to understand the entire universe through his own compositions. He relishes the dark and unsettling qualities of works such as the Sixth Sonata, so full of languid themes, sudden flashes and moods of disturbing violence that even the composer himself never dared to perform it in public.
Maltempo has made his name as an interpreter of Alkan, with an impressive collection of recordings for Piano Classics such as the collection of shorter works (PCL0083) ‘strongly recommended’ by Fanfare magazine, as well as the composer’s more monumental collections of Etudes and Preludes. But the pianist’s sympathies extend beyond Alkan to the Hungarian Rhapsodies of Liszt, PCL0108 (‘Maltempo, throughout this entire recital, is up to the challenge: not just the initial one of mastering the notes themselves—a daunting task, to say the least!—but more importantly in bringing these works to life’) and early works by Schumann, PCL0074 (‘This impressive young Italian pianist displays a great love and dedication towards this music’). All Scriabin collectors will want to give this recording of the sonata cycle serious consideration.
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