Piano Sonata No 1 in F minor Op 6[21’33]
CD1
1
Allegro con fuocoso[8’06]
2
[crotchet = 40][4’55]
3
Presto[2’58]
4
Funèbre[5’34]
Piano Sonata No 2 in G sharp minor ‘Sonata-Fantasy’ Op 19[12’19]
5
Andante[8’41]
6
Presto[3’38]
Piano Sonata No 3 in F sharp minor Op 23[19’31]
7
Drammatico[6’49]
8
Allegretto[2’28]
9
Andante[4’38]
10
Presto con fuoco[5’36]
11
Fantaisie Op 28[8’56]
Piano Sonata No 4 in F sharp major Op 30[7’58]
12
Andante[3’30]
13
Prestissimo volando[4’28]
CD2
14
Piano Sonata No 5 Op 53[12’46]
15
Piano Sonata No 6 Op 62[11’08]
16
Piano Sonata No 7 ‘Messe blanche’ Op 64[11’24]
17
Piano Sonata No 8 Op 66[12’09]
18
Piano Sonata No 9 ‘Messe noire’ Op 68[8’40]
19
Piano Sonata No 10 Op 70[12’56]
20
Sonate-fantaisie in G sharp minor Op posth.[7’25]
Both as composer and virtuoso pianist, Scriabin was heir to the Classical and Romantic sonata tradition, but the transformation of this musical language in his own works was to be crucial for the survival of the sonata principle into the twentieth century.
This set includes all ten of the ‘mature’ Sonatas, the Fantaisie, Op 28, and the youthful Sonate-fantaisie. This last, published only after the composer’s death, shows an astonishingly sure hand developing in the fourteen-year-old.