COMPOSERS: Scriabin
LABELS: Harmonia Mundi
WORKS: Piano Sonatas (complete)
PERFORMER: Robert Taub (piano)
CATALOGUE NO: HMU 907141/42 DDD
One of the joys of hearing Scriabin’s sonatas together is the graphic impression one gets of a composer forging his musical identity. These sonatas map Scriabin’s journey from a broad-brushed Romanticism to a compact, other-worldly modernity. Taub accommodates these shifts in style with a focused and intelligent sensitivity, and some intensely lyrical playing, though perhaps without the same sense of exhilaration that Horowitz brings to bear on these works. William Humphreys-Jones
Scriabin: Piano Sonatas (complete)
One of the joys of hearing Scriabin’s sonatas together is the graphic impression one gets of a composer forging his musical identity. These sonatas map Scriabin’s journey from a broad-brushed Romanticism to a compact, other-worldly modernity. Taub accommodates these shifts in style with a focused and intelligent sensitivity, and some intensely lyrical playing, though perhaps without the same sense of exhilaration that Horowitz brings to bear on these works. William Humphreys-Jones
Published: January 20, 2012 at 2:32 pm