Scriabin

Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 [O.S. 25 December 1871] – 27 April [O.S. 14 April] 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin, who was influenced early in his life by the works of Frédéric Chopin, composed works that are characterised by a highly tonal idiom (these works are associated with his "first stage" of compositional output). Later in his career, independently of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a substantially atonal and much more dissonant musical system, which accorded with his personal brand of mysticism. Scriabin was influenced by synesthesia, and associated colours with the various harmonic tones of his atonal scale, while his colour-coded circle of fifths was also influenced by theosophy. He is considered by some to be the main Russian Symbolist composer.

Scriabin was one of the most innovative and most controversial of early modern composers. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia said of Scriabin that, "No composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed." Leo Tolstoy described Scriabin's music as "a sincere expression of genius." Scriabin had a major impact on the music world over time, and influenced composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Sergei Prokofiev, and Nikolai Roslavets. However Scriabin's importance in the Russian and then Soviet musical scene, and internationally, drastically declined after his passing. According to his biographer Bowers, "No one was more famous during their lifetime, and few were more quickly ignored after death." Nevertheless, his musical aesthetics have been reevaluated, and his ten published sonatas for piano, which arguably provided the most consistent contribution to the genre since the time of Beethoven's set, have been increasingly championed.
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Scriabin

Scriabin

Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 [O.S. 25 December 1871] – 27 April [O.S. 14 April] 1915) was a Russian composer and pianist. Scriabin, who was influenced early in his life by the works of Frédéric Chopin, composed works that are characterised by a highly tonal idiom (these works are associated with his "first stage" of compositional output). Later in his career, independently of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed a substanti...
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SCRIABIN Piano Concerto

Recorded in 1950
Duration: 27:30

Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Henry Swoboda


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LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1
Solo works and transcriptions of music by Debussy, Falla, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Scarlatti, Schubert, Schumann, Scriabin, Wagner, Weber

Studio recordings, 1928-1936
Total duration: 1hr 58:16

Alexander Brailowsky, piano
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Julius Prüwer

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Concert of 2 February 1948
Music by Haydn, Schubert, Scriabin, Kabalevsky, Chopin, Scarlatti, Moszkowski, Schumann, Liszt-Horowitz

Total duration:  79:52 (CD) & 92:59 (Download, includes encores)

Vladimir Horowitz, piano

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SHOSTAKOVICH  Symphony No. 9
SCRIABIN  Piano Concerto

DVORÁK  Symphonic Variations

    Live stereo concert recording, 1962
    Total duration: 74:47

    Paul Badura-Skoda, piano
    Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra

    Charles Mackerras
    , conductor


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    WARLOCK Capriol Suite
    PROKOFIEV Violin Concerto
    BARTÓK Hungarian Folk Tunes
    BARTÓK Romanian Folk Dances
    IVES Violin Sonata No. 4
    BLOCH Violin Concerto
    music by Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Lie, Szymanowski, Scriabin, Stravinsky

    Studio recordings, 1926-46
    Total duration: 2hr 4:59

    Joseph Szigeti, violin
    Nikita Magaloff, Kurt Ruhrseitz, Béla Bartók, Andor Foldes, piano
    London Philharmonic Orchestra
    conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham
    Philharmonia Orchestra
    conducted by Constant Lambert
    Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
    conducted by Charles Munch