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Alexander Scriabin: Piano Works (150th Anniversary – Historical Recordings 1946-1962)

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Classical Music 

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14 February 2024

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Artists

Vladimir Sofronitzky (Piano)
Samuel Feinberg (Piano)Emil Gilels (Piano)Heinrich Neuhaus (Piano)Sviatoslav Richter (Piano)

The fact that Vladimir Sofronitzky’s Scriabin recordings are held in the highest esteem among connoisseurs is not due to the kinship ties between composer and performer: Sofronitzky (1901-61) had married one of Alexander Scriabin’s daughters in 1920. However, it is genuinely artistic reasons that establish his rank in the Scriabin discography. Like hardly anyone else, Sofronitzky was a tireless advocate of Alexander Scriabin’s music, whose “official” reception in the USSR was subject to ideological fluctuations. Already a renowned interpreter of his favorite composer before his marriage, he remained faithful to this focus despite his large repertoire from Buxtehude to Shostakovich, and achieved great renown especially through his house concerts in the Moscow Scriabin Museum – the last time in January 1961. The frequently attested authentic character of Sofronitzky’s art of interpretation was, of course, not bound to this instrument and the place of performance: Above all, Vladimir Sofronitzki possessed a profound understanding of Scriabin’s personality and compositional intentions. He was equally familiar with the construction and philosophy of his works, i.e. he had dealt with the formal aspects of the scores, which increasingly left traditional models behind, as thoroughly as with their often misunderstood philosophical background. It has been handed down, for example, that Sofronitzky declaimed poems by the Russian symbolist Alexander Blok, whom Scriabin particularly appreciated, during a concert in order to bring the “spirit” of the music closer to the audience.