Scriabin: Piano Concerto / Prometheus

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ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
Scriabin: Piano Concerto / Prometheus
Konstantin Scherbakov (piano) / Russian State TV and Radio Choir / Moscow Symphony Orchestra / Igor Golovschin

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Saturday 10 May 2008

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"This budget-priced production from the composer's compatriots certainly holds its own against all comers. Konstantin Scherbakov plays the concerto with steel and sensitivity in equal measure, and he's particularly successful in knitting together the loose architecture of the outer movements, while at the same time making the filigreed piano writing sound like real Scriabin, rather than Chopin on steroids." Classics Today

"This budget-priced production from the composer's compatriots certainly holds its own against all comers. Konstantin Scherbakov plays the concerto with steel and sensitivity in equal measure, and he's particularly successful in knitting together the loose architecture of the outer movements, while at the same time making the filigreed piano writing sound like real Scriabin, rather than Chopin on steroids. The performance of Prometheus is physically exciting and has a naturalness of flow... The couplings, orchestrations of various short piano pieces, are also captivating and unique."
- Classics Today (David Hurwitz), May 2000

Tracks:

Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20
Prometheus, The Poem of Fire, Op. 60
Prelude in A flat major, Op. 11, No. 17 (orch. Vasily Rogal-Levitsky)
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 11, No. 10 (orch. Rogal-Levitsky)
Prelude in B minor, Op. 11, No. 6 (orch. Rogal-Levitsky)
Prelude in D flat minor, Op. 11, No. 15 (orch. Rogal-Levitsky)
Fragilite, Op. 51, No. 1 (orch. Rogal-Levitsky)
Sonata No. 1, Op. 6: Marche Funebre (orch. Rogal-Levitsky)