Scriabin sonata in E-flat minor (1889)

[communist]

Does anyone have the rare Scriabin sonata?

[oreno]

As Far as i know (and i played it)
It is  The Allegro Appassionato op 4
So i posted the 2 different  versions of titles
Oren

[communist]

thank you O.

[lontano]

Does anyone have the rare Scriabin sonata?

While I lost the only recording I ever had of this piece, if it indeed is what I believe it is, I was pretty impressed with it, especially as it was a work from his teen years. VOX-BOX released the complete piano works of Scriabin played by Michael Ponti, which is where I first discovered, and learned to embrace the composer. I got to see Ponti perform once but I don't think he was playing Scriabin; I remember Liszt and some other piano concerto - it was a lont time ago. 

[superstition2]

As Far as i know (and i played it)
It is  The Allegro Appassionato op 4
So i posted the 2 different  versions of titles
Oren

The appassionato is a reworking of the piece into a single movement. The original sonata is more coherent and preferable, despite the fact that only the first movement has much meat. Although it has some beauty to it, it has a very clunky opening. It's certainly juvenalia. Interestingly enough, the apparently earlier Sonata Fantasy is a more polished mature-sounding piece, although it is also comparatively simplistic in terms of Scriabin's mature works.

Glemser, Coombs, Szidon, and Ponti are available on CD. Glemser and Coombs are better than Szidon and Ponti for this piece, with a nod to Glemser who does his best to create interest rather than merely go through the motions.