Scriabin Etudes Complete

Scriabin Etudes Complete

Scriabin Etudes Complete
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Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Performer: Chitose Okashiro
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1996-04-16
Music Label: Pro-Piano Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Op.2 No.1 in c#: Andante
  2. Op.8 No.1 in C#: Allegro
  3. Op.8 No.2 in f#: A capriccio, con forza
  4. Op.8 No.3 in b: Tempestoso
  5. Op.8 No.4 in B: Piacevole
  6. Op.8 No.5 in E: Brioso
  7. Op.8 No.6 in A: Con grazia
  8. Op.8 No.7 in b-flat: Presto tenebroso, agitato
  9. Op.8 No.8 in A-flat: Lento
  10. Op.8 No.9 in g#: Alla ballata
  11. Op.8 No.10 in D-flat: Allegro
  12. Op.8 No.11 in b-flat: Andante cantabile
  13. Op.8 No.12 in d#: Patetico
  14. Op.42 No.1 in D-flat: Presto
  15. Op.42 No.2 in f#
  16. Op.42 No.3 in F#: Prestissimo
  17. Op.42 No.4 in F#: Andante
  18. Op.42 No.5 in c#: Affannato
  19. Op.42 No.6 in D-flat: Esaltato
  20. Op.42 No.7 in f: Agitato
  21. Op.42 No.8 in E-flat: Allegro
  22. Op.49 No.1
  23. Op.56 No.4: Presto
  24. Op.65 No.1: Allegro fantastico
  25. Op.65 No.2: Allegretto
  26. Op.65 No.3: Molto vivace

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Music Review: Look No Further For A Scriabin Etude CD!
Rating: 5 Stars

As I often do, I searched Amazon for a recording of the Scriabin Etudes. I wanted to find the best available interpretations and recording possible. I knew about the Piers Lane and Alexander Paley recordings of this work, but this Chitose Okashiro CD proved a remarkable surprise! After listening to clips of both Lane and Okashiro playing the etudes, I made up my mind to purchase this CD. Wow!

Okashiro is an extremely competent virtuoso, yet she uses her pianistic skills to serve Scriabin's music. As the outstanding liner notes point out, Okashiro employs her extensive ear-training and aural abilities to play with extreme sensitivity and musicality.

Each study presents the player with technical and musical hurdles. Okashiro not only clears each hurdle with ease. She makes music out of each etude.

The Opus 8 etudes owe a debt to Frederic Chopin. Many of the same figurations and gestures are present, yet Scriabin's unique rhythmic, melodic and harmonic traits are audible. In sensitive sections, Okashiro plays with great beauty and sensitivity. She shapes each phrase beautifully and gives it forward direction. Okashiro's left-hand playing is strong and foundational, important for playing the unusual tremolos Scriabin uses. Her right-hand playing is quick, dexterous, and extremely accurate. Okashiro will wow you with her technique and accuracy!

My personal favorite on the CD is Opus 8, No. 10., in D-flat Major. It sounds like a cross between Balakirev's "Islamey" and a Chopin mazurka. It employs flurries of thirds and a meter in five. The D-flat Major etude is a whirlwind piece with some bewitching harmonies! It is perhaps the most self-consciously virtuosic of all the Scriabin etudes, and Okashiro slam-dunks it.

Okashiro uses a different approach for the latter etudes. Scriabin obviously used material from his Fourth Sonata in several of the etudes, and Okashiro's playing matches the fine Roberto Szidon recording of the Fourth Sonata. It is bleak, languid, hazy, misty and other-worldly.

Another impressive effort is Opus 65, No. 1. This etude shares the musical language of the dreaded Sixth Sonata. It has wicked runs of a major ninth (Stretch your thumb and little finger as far as you can on the piano, and try to play fast runs!). Okashiro plays with jaw-dropping virtuosity, and she keeps the etude appropriately frenetic.

If you want to own a great set of interpretations of the Scriabin Etudes with superb sound, purchase this one by Chitose Okashiro. Do not be scared off by her obscure-sounding Japanese name. Okashiro plays Scriabin as well as anybody I have heard (I have listened to the complete Scriabin sonata cycles by Szidon and Ashkenazy, including clips from Sofronitsky, Ogdon, Hamelin, and Laredo). Go for it!!
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Description of Scriabin Etudes Complete

The only truly Complete CD Presentation of the stunning Scriabin Etudes... recorded in 5D 20bit clarity.

Chitose Okashiro is the Most SUPERB Modern Scriabinist... and has set the mark for excellence in all her recorded handlings of Scriabin's mysterious music.

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