Name: Scriabin: The Ten Piano Sonatas - Garrick Ohlsson
SKU: 0090404946820

Scriabin: The Ten Piano Sonatas – Garrick Ohlsson

Sonata for Piano No. 1 in F minor, op. 6
Sonata for Piano No. 2 in G sharp minor, op. 19 “Sonata Fantasy”
Sonata for Piano No. 3 in F sharp minor, op. 23
Sonata for Piano No. 4 in F sharp major, op. 30
Sonata for Piano No. 5 in F sharp major, op. 53
Sonata for Piano No. 6, op. 62
Sonata for Piano No. 7 in F sharp major, op. 64 ‘White Mass’
Sonata for Piano No. 8, op. 66
Sonata for Piano No. 9, op. 68 ‘Black Mass’
Sonata for Piano No. 10, op. 70
Fantasy for Piano in B minor, op. 28

Garrick Ohlsson

Reference: 0009468BRIDG
Barcode: 0090404946820
Length: 2:27:37
Label: Bridge

Format: 2 CD

Release date: 7/4/2017

Barcode: 0090404946820 Categories: CD, Classical

34,90€

in Piano International (Mar, 2017)
This is a glorious recording. Complete cycles of Scriabin piano sonatas are not as frequent as one might like, yet this comes up against a significant recent one, from British pianist Peter Donohoe (Somm). The later sonatas in particular (Nos 7-10) provide some of the most sophisticated, challenging music written for the piano. The cycle’s trajectory is from the post-Chopin harmonies and Lisztian rhetoric of No 1 (interpreted superbly here by Ohlsson) to the heady otherworlds of the Black Mass and White Mass.

Ohlsson has the ability to pinpoint the emotional temperature and aura of each sonata precisely, and this is his greatest strength. The sensuous Fourth, the crepuscular Fifth and …

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