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Topic: Best recordings of each Scriabin sonata?  (Read 86 times)

Offline bach-busoni chaconne

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Best recordings of each Scriabin sonata?
on: Yesterday at 01:50:26 PM
What do you think is the best recording of each Scriabin sonata? (Don't have to comment on all, just the ones you know / listen to)
2026 Goal:
Bach-Busoni: Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
Stravinsky: Trois Mouvements de "Pétrouchka" / Stravinsky-Agosti: Firebird

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Re: Best recordings of each Scriabin sonata?
Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 02:45:31 PM
I don't regularly listen to all of them, but for the ones I listen to:

2-Pogorelich (doesn't do the marked dynamics at the start of 2nd mvt, but very unique)
3-Horowitz
4-Pletnev/Pogorelich (only on YouTube i think)
5-Richter
7-Richter
8-Hamelin/Ashkenazy
9-Horowitz
10-Pletnev
2026 Goal:
Bach-Busoni: Chaconne in D Minor, BWV 1004
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit, M. 55
Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
Stravinsky: Trois Mouvements de "Pétrouchka" / Stravinsky-Agosti: Firebird

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Re: Best recordings of each Scriabin sonata?
Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 03:02:49 PM
Sofronitsky for many, particularly no 8. Few come close with those falling fourths.

I also like Ashkenazy in this sonata - he keeps momentum going, almost a continuous acceleration from start to end. Thrilling.

Richter in 5 is something else.

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Re: Best recordings of each Scriabin sonata?
Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 08:01:52 PM
Honestly Richter's no. 5 is overrated. Peter Laul's is much better:


Richter for no. 7.


Ashkenazy for no. 8.


Sung Chang for no. 4.


Vincenzo Maltempo isn't my favorite for any of them, but he's consistently second or third.
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