Alexander Scriabin's piano sonatas chart his career from Romantic piano virtuoso to mystical voyant more clearly than any of his other works. Yet hearing them in order also reveals that their increasing complexities and stylistic advances developed on a continuum, and that they are actually quite unified, despite their dramatic changes of forms, harmonies, rhythms, and tonality. Some pianists perceive a split between Sonata No. 4 and No. 5, as if that is where the seeds of Scriabin's messianic madness first took root; as ...
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Alexander Scriabin's piano sonatas chart his career from Romantic piano virtuoso to mystical voyant more clearly than any of his other works. Yet hearing them in order also reveals that their increasing complexities and stylistic advances developed on a continuum, and that they are actually quite unified, despite their dramatic changes of forms, harmonies, rhythms, and tonality. Some pianists perceive a split between Sonata No. 4 and No. 5, as if that is where the seeds of Scriabin's messianic madness first took root; as a result, the cycle is frequently divided between vaguely Chopin-esque, parlor interpretations for the earlier works and crazy, excessive readings for the remaining pieces. However, Vladimir Ashkenazy deserves credit for comprehending the progression of the sonatas and for taking a consistent interpretive stance from first to last. He is remarkably thoughtful and coherent, and from the outset presents Scriabin's work as a search for greater musical freedoms, not as a gradual...
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