SKRJABIN A. - COMPLETE PIANO SONATAS VOL.3

Opus 30-Skrjabin ten complete Piano sonatas offer a fascinating insight into the Russian composer?s stylistic development. While his first works still fully reflect the late-romantic tradition the late works keep bursting thebounds of tonality. The boldly outlined two-movement Fourth Sonata marks a turning point for it evokes the world of the ?Poème de l?extase? with its mystical atmosphere hovering between ethereal raptureand ecstatic flight. The publication of opus 30 means that all of Skrjabin?s sonatas are now available in Henle Urtext quality and edited by the expert Valentina Rubcova of Moscow an invitation to all pianists to plungeinto this unique cosmos.

Complete Piano Sonatas I-The Piano Sonatas are regarded as the central works of Alexander Scriabin’s compositional output. No other composer after Beethoven reshaped this genre so radically thereby reinvigorating the tradition of the sonata. Scriabin’s desire not simply to continue the existing tradition but to surpass it is evident as early as his first sonatas. These are exciting works from the pianist’s perspective and in their abundance of expression and wealth of imagination. Up to the third sonata Scriabin developed a distinctive feeling for structural coherence and cyclical unity which at the same time revealed poetic qualities.Thisvolume contains the earlier works; sonatas officially published during the composer’s lifetime as No. 1 op. 6 No. 2 (Sonate-Fantaisie) op. 19 and No. 3 op. 23 as well as the sonatas written during his youth in G-sharp minor (1886) and E-flat minor (1887-89). The edition also includes the virtually unknown fragment of a sonata in C-sharp minor (1887) and the reconstructed parts of a sonata in G-sharp minor (1892) never previously published.The editor Christoph Flamm draws on autograph manuscripts first printed editions and on Russian editions of the 1920s. For the first time the recordings of Sonatas nos. 2 and 3 which Scriabin made in 1908 on paper rolls for the Hupfeld company Leipzig are also taken into account.- Urtext edition reflecting the latest scholarship and taking previously unknown sources into account.- Includes all fragmentary works some published for the first time.- Detailed foreword Ger/Eng) and critical commentary (Eng).