This 1996 recording appears to be the first of this ballet score, prepared in 1975 by Alexander Nemtin (1936-1999), from fourteen short piano pieces of Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915).It was conductor-pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, who in making this recording, brought the score back from near-oblivion. Ashkenazy has performed and recorded Scriabin's music extensively as a pianist and a conductor. His recordings include all the piano sonatas, a quantity of the other piano music, the piano concerto (as conductor), and the ...
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This 1996 recording appears to be the first of this ballet score, prepared in 1975 by Alexander Nemtin (1936-1999), from fourteen short piano pieces of Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915).It was conductor-pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, who in making this recording, brought the score back from near-oblivion. Ashkenazy has performed and recorded Scriabin's music extensively as a pianist and a conductor. His recordings include all the piano sonatas, a quantity of the other piano music, the piano concerto (as conductor), and the symphonies.In this recording, Ashkenazy strongly supports Nemtin in re-creating Scriabin's personal and highly distinctive style of orchestration, as it was expressed at about the time of the Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (the opus numbers of most of the piano pieces Nemtin selected are in the fifties and sixties). Ashkenazy very effectively finds the dance-like pulse of all the pieces, realizing what was an aim of this project, to bring the ballet score to the attention of leading conductors...
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