Yevgeny Sudbin plays Scriabin | BIS BISSACD1568

Yevgeny Sudbin plays Scriabin

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISSACD1568

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st October 2007

Contents

Artists

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

Works

Scriabin, Alexander

Etude in C sharp minor, op.2 no.1
Etudes (12), op.8
» no.12 in D sharp minor
Mazurkas (10), op.3
» no.1 in B minor
» no.3 in G minor
» no.4 in E major
» no.6 in C sharp minor
Morceaux (2), op.59
» no.1 Poeme for piano
Piano Sonata no.2 in G sharp minor, op.19 'Sonata-Fantasy'
Piano Sonata no.5 in F sharp major, op.53
Piano Sonata no.9, op.68 'Black Mass'
Pieces (4), op.56
» no.3 Nuances
Waltz in A flat major, op.38

Artists

Yevgeny Sudbin (piano)

About

‘Oh, how easy it is to become possessed by Scriabin, one of the most enigmatic and controversial and artistic personalities of all time’ – this is how Yevgeny Sudbin begins his own liner notes to this disc. He continues: ‘Scriabin was not only the first to introduce madness into music; he also managed to synthesize it into an infectious virus that is entirely music-borne and affects the psyche in a highly irrational way.’ The Scriabin virus has certainly affected Sudbin, with audible results in this programme which combines some of the visionary composer’s earliest works (an Étude from 1887, four Mazurkas from 1889), with the delirious Fifth Sonata and Sonata No.9, nick-named ‘Messe noire’.

Yevgeny Sudbin’s remarkable début on disc was a Scarlatti recital which caused reviewers to compare the then 25-year old pianist favourably to Horowitz and Pletnev. The following Rachmaninov disc caused Piano Magazine to describe him as “a major, world-class artist – a fearless technician with an all-encompassing command of his instrument; a musical dramatist of exceptional acumen and sophistication; a poet who moves seamlessly between unbridled rhetoric and extreme intimacy; a stylist who catches the particular spirit of everything he plays...”.

An intriguing double-bill of Tchaikovsky’s and Medtner’s First Piano Concertos – was released early in 2007, earning him an Editor’s Choice in Gramophone. The grounds for that distinction, as given in the magazine, are certainly just as apt for the present Scriabin recital: “Yevgeny Sudbin's performance here fairly explodes with imagination, feeling and desire. Here, one feels, is a pianist hungry to test himself intellectually and emotionally as well as technically.”
Penguin Guide 4 stars Gramophone Editor's Choice

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