Alexander Skrjabin
Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1

Instrumentation Piano
Composer Alexander Skrjabin
Series Bärenreiter Urtext
Edition Sheet Music (Urtext)
Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
Order no. BA9616

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Description:

Language: German English
Pages: 186
Release: 04.07.2011
Dimensions: 310 x 240 mm
Weight: 746 g
Opus: 6 19 23
Genre: Classical Music
ISMN: 9790006536900

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)

The piano sonatas are regarded as the central works of Alexander Skrjabin's compositional output. No other composer after Beethoven reshaped this genre so radically, thereby reinvigorating the tradition of the sonata. Skrjabin'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 Skrjabin developed a distinctive feeling for structural coherence and cyclical unity which at the same time revealed poetic qualities.

This volume 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 Skrjabin made in 1908 on paper rolls for the Hupfeld company, Leipzig are also taken into account.