Complete Piano Sonatas

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915): Sonatas para piano.

Like Chopin, Scriabin made the piano the focus of his art. Among the supreme achievements of that art are the ten sonatas he composed between 1892 and 1913, works that abundantly display both his technical virtuosity and the exhilarating emotional gamut he ranged with such individuality.

All ten of Scriabin's sonatas are reprinted here from the authoritative Russian edition published in 1964. The first four reveal the influences of the pianism of Chopin and Liszt. The subsequent sonatas richly display Scriabin's emerging impressionist technique and his deep attraction to mysticism, wich progressively conjured a more and more ethereal framework of sound, now brooding and introspective, now rhapsodic and exultant.
In both their technical requirements and their emotional demands, these brilliant works will offer pianists a deeply satisfying challenge. Nonpianists will also enjoy this finely made edition, with which they may follow, music in hand, the growing number of live and recorded performances of these masterpieces.
Unabridged Dover (1989) republication of the edition published by lzdatel'stvo "Muzyka," Moscow, 1964.

CONTENIDO:

Glossary of French Terms in Sonatas 6 through 10

- Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 (1892)
I: Allegro con fuoco
II
III: Presto

- Sonata No. 2 (Sonata-Fantasy) in G-Sharp minor, Op. 19 (1892-97)
I: Andante
II: Presto

- Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp minor, Op. 23 (1897-98)
I: Drammatico
II: Allegretto
III: Andante
IV: Presto con fuoco

- Sonata No.4 in F-Sharp major, Op. 30 (1903)
I: Andante
II: Prestissimo volando


- Sonata No.5, Op. 53 (1907)
- Sonata No.6, Op. 62 (1911)
- Sonata No.7 ("White Mass"), Op. 64 (1911)
- Sonata No. 8, Op. 66 (1912-13)
- Sonata No.9 ("Black Mass"), Op. 68 (1912-13)
- Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 (1913)