Michael Ponti, Scriabin - Complete Piano Works of Scriabin
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Canadian Music Store Music CD CoverArtist: Michael Ponti, ScriabinEdition: Music CD Format: Box set, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered CD Release Date: 2002-12-10 Music Label: Vox (Classical) Soundtracks: Music CD 1
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When talking about Scriabin, of course, maturity is only a relative term. He died in 1915 at only 43 years old. He composed an extensive large collection of piano music. Scriabin was a very complicated person and his life is surrounded by many myths. He is known to only be able to compose after extreme intoxication or physical intimacy. Scriabin was able to express so many different emotions with his music from anger, fear and mystery to light, love and ecstasy. This 5 CD set allows us to hear his development as a composer. The very first piece on the set, the 3 Pieces op. 2, is one of my favorite pieces, the Etude in C sharp minor. These first 3 pieces were composed when he was only 15 years old. The second, a Prelude, gives a taste of things to come in its extreme beauty that Scriabin was able to capture in only 45 seconds. The third is an Impromptu whose melodic and harmonic style as well as the nature of the left hand accompaniment could almost have been lifted from a page of Chopin. Several of the earlier pieces show the influence of Tchaikovsky, and in the more virtuoso pieces, of Liszt. There could scarcely be a greater contrast between this music and the music from the end of Scriabin's life. From the early 1900's he began to be interested in matters divine and mystic, and as these preoccupations found their way into the music, the music became less immediately accessible, less melodic, and distant from what what others were composing at the time. Scriabin began to view the music he composed in the later years of his life as a sort of preparation for some huge project which would bring together his religious, mystic and musical philosophies. His death intervened, and we can never know how his very particular thinking might have developed, nor to what conclusions, musical or otherwise, he might eventually have been led by it all. The music of this period is characterized by new harmonies, based on the interval of the fourth, and mystic chords became associated with him. Fantasie in B Minor is typical of this period, at one moment somber and sad and then burning with a kind of diabolical energy at another. One of my favorite pieces of Scriabin's music is the whole set of 24 Preludes, op.11. The Preludes in the black keys are the most interesting, especially Nos.13-18. Hardly two minutes in length, these short works take the pianist through the whole keyboard with cross hands, accentuating chords requiring all ten fingers to run across the black keys with great intensity. No.13, which starts off in a slow manner, is rich with sustained chords in the left hand and gliding arpeggios in the right which just end on a hanging note. The Preludes in some aspects have connections to Chopin's preludes. Scriabin's teacher was a student of Chopin. The influence is subtle but very real. Scriabin's desire to reach new heights surface in works like the Three Morceaux. The first work, Feuillet d album, is extremely slow and looks so playable to an inexperienced pianist. However, it is full of expression that extends beyond just the fingers and a lot of thought and feeling has to be put into playing it. Anyone interested in Scriabin's music definitely needs to get this set performed by Michael Ponti. It contains all of Scriabin's piano works except for the sonatas and a couple of other works that are also available from Vox Box on a 2 CD set.
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