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Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op.20 - Scriabin |
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 Scriabin's only piano concerto, written in 1896 at the age of twenty-six, as the
composer was reaching the end of his formative period, is both a surprise
and a delight. Known at the time as "The Russian Chopin" for
his early adherence to the style of the Polish composer, it is little
surprise that this work is fully permeated with the influence of Chopin.
Where
Scriabin was already ahead of his idol was in his mastery of orchestration,
which he put to great effect in this concerto. In 1910, just five years
before his early death, Scriabin himself played this concerto to great
success during a steamboat tour of the Volga with an orchestra conducted
by the legendary Serge Koussevitsky.
Here
we find one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century, Paul
Badura-Skoda (left), in one of his earliest LP recordings,
made for Westminster in 1950, and then paired with Rimsky-Korsakov's concerto
(PASC030). Despite some rather dubious original
recorded sound, Peter Harrison at disk2disc has done wonders to
make this once again worth hearing!
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