Scriabin

Chopin, Scriabin - Preludes - Igor Zhukov (1991)
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Melodiya | USSR | SUCD 10-00108 | 1991

Igor Zhukov graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1960 (piano class of Professor H. Neuhaus). The pianist is a laureate of the International M. Long Competition in Paris (1957). He is widely known in the Soviet Union and abroad appearing with concerts as a soloist, in ensembles.

This is the second of Brilliant's box sets devoted to Russian recordings from Evgeny Kissin. Labeled as early, these live concert performances from 1984 to 1990 carry us from the day after Kissin turned 13 (Mozart Cto. #12 K. 414) to age 18 (Mozart Cto. #20, K. 466), with most readings clustering in the range of 1985-89. Russians were well aware of the marvel in their midst; the pianist's American breakthrough occurred in 1990 when he debuted at Carnegie Hall's centennial season.

Stokowski/HSO - Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstacy
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1959 | Genre: Classical | Label: Everest | SDBR-3032 | HDTrack hi-res digital download

A Bert Whyte recording of Maestro Stokowski conducting the Houston Symphony at the Houston Civic Center in 1959. Le Poeme d’extase is a big, one movement work in sonata form that combines the elements of a symphony and a tone poem. The work highlights Scriabin’s development and exploitation of new harmonic ideas including chord structures constructed on intervals of a fourth instead of a third. Coupled on this release is another Stokowski/Houston performance of Amirov’s “Azerbaijan Mugan” recorded on March 16th, 1959 at the Houston Civic Center. Amirov’s composition, masterfully performed by Stokowski and the Houston, exhibits the complicated system of mode scales and fixed melodic patterns characteristic of music of the East.

Fyodor Amirov (piano) is a musician engaged in a variety of activities-from classical piano music to free improvisation, rock concerts and multimedia performances.

bastille musique presents its fifth release »Alexander Scriabin: Etrangeté« featuring Yejin Gil (piano). Produced at the Teldex Studio Berlin, these recordings comprise a selection of Scriabin’s Piano Sonatas (Nos. 2, 5 and 10) and Poèmes (Op. 32, 36, 41, 61, 63 and 72). Additionally, the set contains a 48-page bilingual booklet (EN, DE) with articles by Dieter Rexroth, an interview with the pianist and the producer, autograph pages of the album’s eponymous composition, as well as photos from the recording sessions and a picture of the composer.

It may seem unlikely that Nikolai Roslavets would have consciously composed works in imitation of Alexander Scriabin, so that both composers would have pieces that could be matched up, title for title, as they are on this album by pianist Anya Alexeyev. But once one hears the music, the influence of Scriabin is obvious and omnipresent, so such a gesture on Roslavets' part as naming and numbering his pieces after Scriabin's doesn't seem farfetched. Roslavets' Two Poems, Five Preludes, and Three Etudes correspond to the identically named Scriabin works, which are paired here, and …….

Blair Sanderson @ Allmusic