Scriabin - Vladimir Ashkenazy: Vers La Flamme (2015)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: March 14, 2015

Vladimir Ashkenazy has been a lifelong champion of the music of his compatriot Scriabin. For the composer’s anniversary year he has recorded a selection of works which span the entire output of Scriabin’s works for solo piano: an extraordinary musical journey from late-romanticism to the mystic modernism of his last works. A prelude by Scriabin’s youngest son Yulian - a promising composer and pianist who died tragically young aged eleven – completes this new recording.

Ashkenazy brings a lifetime’s experience as well as his inimitable musicality and vision to this music in definitive performances. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Scriabin’s death (1872-1915), one of music’s great visionaries and a musician worthy of major re-assessment.

Decca flies the flag for Scriabin with two major releases: The Complete Works plus this brand new recording of solo piano works.

Reviews: It’s more than 30 years since Vladimir Ashkenazy recorded Scriabin’s piano sonatas, a set that, despite some unevenness, remains one of the safest recommendations for these remarkable works. This new collection of miniatures, recorded just a few months ago, marks this year’s centenary of Scriabin’s death. The second half of Ashkenazy’s chronological trawl overlaps significantly with Garrick Ohlsson’s survey of Scriabin’s Poèmes, which was released at the beginning of the year by Hyperion, but Ashkenazy’s approach is quite different – more reflective and sometimes indulgent, very much viewing these pieces through the prism of Romanticism rather than that of modernism. Ashkenazy is at his most winning in the early Chopinesque pieces, the Mazurkas Op 3, the Studies Op 8 and Op 42 especially, but his account of the phantasmagoric Vers la Flamme, which gives the disc its title, as well as the set of late Preludes Op 74, are thrillingly persuasive, too, and he adds a Prelude by Yulian Alexandrovich Scriabin, the composer’s son, who was drowned in 1919 at the age of 11, as a touching epilogue.

Tracklisting:

01. Etude Op.2 No.1
02. Mazurka Op.3 No.6
03. Mazurka Op.3 No.7
04. Mazurka Op.3 No.10
05. Etude Op.8 No.5
06. Etude Op.8 No.7
07. Etude Op.8 No.10
08. Etude Op.8 No.11
09. Etude Op.8 No.12
10. Prelude Op.22 No.1
11. Prelude Op.22 No.2
12. Prelude Op.22 No.3
13. Prelude Op.22 No.4
14. Etude Op.42 No.1
15. Etude Op.42 No.2
16. Etude Op.42 No.3
17. Etude Op.42 No.4
18. Etude Op.42 No.5
19. Etude Op.42 No.6
20. Etude Op.42 No.7
21. Etude Op.42 No.8
22. Feuillet d'album Op.45 No.1
23. Poeme Fantasque Op.45 No.2
24. Prelude Op.45 No.3
25. Quasi Valse Op.47
26. Poeme Op.52 No.1
27. Enigme Op.52 No.2
28. Poeme Languide Op.52 No.3
29. Desir Op.57 No.1
30. Caresse dansee Op.57 No.2
31. Feuillet d'album Op.58
32. Masque Op.63 No.1
33. Etrangete Op.63 No.2
34. Poeme Op.69 No.1
35. Poeme Op.69 No.2
36. Poeme Op.71 No.1
37. Poeme Op.71 No.2
38. Vers la flamme Op.72
39. Prelude Op.74 No.1
40. Prelude Op.74 No.2
41. Prelude Op.74 No.3
42. Prelude Op.74 No.4
43. Prelude Op.74 No.5
44. Prelude Op.3 No.1

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