Favorite Scriabin Sonata

[Derek]

Whats your favorite scriabin sonata? I know what mine is....

[Nightscape]

Number 8 is my favorite!  But not by much.  I love all of them.

[Derek]

Mine's 5....I love the insanely triumphant flurries of virtuosic triad jumps and the melody with really big intervals in it.......this is probably my favorite 20th century piece...though I also really love no 2 (more traditional) and 9......and 7.....

yeah. they're all awesome. hard to pick a favorite.

[fred smalls]

I.............CANT..............DO...............IT....................

I'm not voting. 
Btw: wheres the sonata (e flat-) the fantasie op.28 and the sonata-fantasie (g sharp - there are two btw)? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Those are just like the sonatas and jjust as good!!! 

[pianomann1984]

Oooh, the tension - level-pegging for 6 sonatas! (IVF Black mass - so dark, and brilliantly constructed!)

[SDL]

No.5

[thracozaag]

  I of course, love 'em all, but for me it's #8.  Vers La Flamme I often refer to as the 11th sonata...

koji (STSD)

[Daevren]

Derek, you are a cruel man!

[Mozartian]

Have only heard 3 or so, but my favorite is #4.

[quantum]

Tough question!   They are all so different, each one is a jewl. 

I love them all. 

[Daevren]

Actually the last ones are quite similar. He also worked 7, 8 and 9 at the same time I think. He wrote 5 in three(3!) days.

[thracozaag]

Actually the last ones are quite similar. He also worked 7, 8 and 9 at the same time I think. He wrote 5 in three(3!) days.

  The similarities are 6/7, and 9/10.  8 seems to stand alone in a weird way (and actually was the last one completed).

koji (STSD)

[ravel]

My favourite is sonata no.4 .
 i like the second sonata first movement too, but didnt like the second movement of it,  but the first movement of sonata no.2 is really awesome.
and sonata no.5  is my next favourite .

[fred smalls]

  I of course, love 'em all, but for me it's #8.  Vers La Flamme I often refer to as the 11th sonata...

koji (STSD)

Yeah, didn't he intend for it to be the 11th sonata but he had to shorten it for some reason (financial?)?  Dunno, this is what i heard........

btw: i decided on no.5

[Daevren]

I love Vers La Flamme.

Its like the only piece I could imagine 'listening' to while having sex.

[thierry13]

For all of your information, if you don't allready know, Vers la flamme is in french, and means : Toward the flame. Just in case you didn't know. 

[musicsdarkangel]

I'm going to say 5, though many are excellent.

[fred smalls]

For all of your information, if you don't allready know, Vers la flamme is in french, and means : Toward the flame. Just in case you didn't know. 

I did know that   
(And I'm sure alot of othere avid Scriabin fans knew it as well.....)

[Nightscape]

Vers la flamme is not German.

[Daevren]

Horowitz on Vers la Flamme: "This is psychedelic music dealing with the mysterious forces of fire and the atom that can destroy all humanity. Scriabin previewed a vision of the atom bomb."

[Nightscape]

Ricketson on Vers la Flamme: "If memory serves me correctly, I can see within the piece an inner struggle.... a glimpse of a woman beckoned towards the fires of hell.  My collegues say that I've eaten too much of the mushroom kabob but I told them I would supplement the loss by saving up a year's supply of goat milk."