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Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas
Alexander Scriabin, Roberto Szidon
Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas
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All Artists: Alexander Scriabin, Roberto Szidon
Title: Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release Date: 6/15/2004
Album Type: Box set
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Fantasies, Sonatas, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 028947704928
 

CD Reviews

ABSOLUTELY THE FINEST COMPLETE SCRIABIN SONATA CYCLE.
Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 08/08/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)

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Since Glenn Gould unfortunately did not record for posterity Scriabin's Sonatas Nos. 6-10, (he did record the very best realization of No. 5), Szidon's set here is absolutely the finest cycle available.



Recorded in the 1970s, DGG has here re-released Szidon's performances with crystal clarity in a very inexpensive 3 disc set: great bargan! Great Art!!



There are a couple of cycles available out there; but you can believe: this is the best."
Solid, but outclassed
SRS | Ohio | 04/08/2006
(3 out of 5 stars)

"I have quite a few sets of the Scriabin sonatas, and I've heard a number of recordings from pianists who didn't record the complete cycle. Here are my suggestions:



G# minor post. - Hamelin

Eb minor post. - Glemser or Coombs

1st - Kocyan and Ashkenazy

2nd - Koycan and Glemser

3rd - Laredo and Horowitz. Also Taub and Sofronitsky

4th - Taub, Sofronitsky

5th - Horowitz, Taub, Hamelin

6th - Richter, Taub

7th - Glemser, Laredo

8th - Ashkenazy, Szidon or Laredo

9th - Sofronitsky, Horowitz, Glemser

10th - Horowitz, Taub



Avoid: Ogdon and Ponti.



Szidon's set is solid generally, but if I were to get only one sonata set, I'd get Taub's and supplement it with disc 1 of Glemser's Scriabin sonatas."
An over-rated set
T. S. Fox | 02/16/2006
(2 out of 5 stars)

"I have had these records for many years. I bought them because, in the 90s, they were recommended as the best available. Being unfamiliar with Scriabin's music, I hoped I would get to appreciate that composer. I never did, until recently I thought maybe it was the interpretation that did not do justice to them.



How right I was! Browsing through a few clips on Amazon, I came across Ruth Laredo. I was captivated. Here the important notes came to the fore, and the accompanying figures receded. I still wonder that I could have ever tolerated Szidon's "herds of charging elephants", which muddied the waters whenever the music became turbulent or passionate. Laredo, by contrast, gives us a flowing and beautiful line, always clarifying and not obscuring the composer's intent.



Buy this set only if you're a "completist": it contains some early work missing from the Laredo set and this - to be fair -Szidon plays well enough



Stephen Fox (UK)

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