Scriabin: Complete Sonatas

Michael Ponti, Scriabin - Scriabin: Complete Sonatas

Scriabin: Complete Sonatas
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Artist: Michael Ponti, Scriabin
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Music Label: Vox (Classical)
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Sonata-Fantasy In G-Sharp Minor Op. Posth.
  2. Allegro Appassionato
  3. Andante
  4. Presto
  5. Allegro Con Fuocoso
  6. Presto
  7. Funebre
  8. Andante
  9. Presto
  10. Drammatico
  11. Allegretto
  12. Andante
  13. Presto Con Fuoco
  14. Alegro. Impetuoso. Con Stravaganza - Languido - Presto Con Allegrez
Music CD 2
  1. Andante
  2. Prestissimo Volando
  3. Modere
  4. Allegro
  5. No. 1: Allegro Fantastico
  6. No. 2: Allegretto
  7. No. 3: Molto Vivace
  8. Lento - Allegro Agitato
  9. Moderato Quasi Andante
  10. Moderato - Allegro
  11. Poeme No. 1
  12. Poeme No. 2
  13. Vers La Flamme Op.72
  14. No. 1: Guirlandes
  15. No. 2: Flammes Sombres
  16. No. 1: Douloureux Dechirant
  17. No. 2: Tres Lent 'Contemplatif'
  18. No. 3: Allegro Drammatico
  19. No. 4: Lent, Vague, Indecis
  20. No. 5: Fier Belliqueux

Music reviews of Scriabin: Complete Sonatas

Music Review: Advice for Scriabin collectors
Rating: 3 Stars

This set is one of the great tragedies of recorded music. Ponti is a great Scriabin player, despite the occasional side-swiped notes. Unfortunately, the sound of the sonatas in this set is virtually unlistenable-fryingly over bright treble and boomy bass--it sounds like it was recorded by someone used to recording rock. The performances aren't coarse and harsh, but the sound IS, and the recording engineer should be taken out and shot!

It's a tragedy, because the playing is marvellous, if a little lacking in finish (I suspect this set was recorded very quickly). The other pieces in the set are more listentably recorded. I found that adjusting the tone controls to treble at 9:00 and bass at 10:00 renders everything except the sonatas much easier to take.

Unfortunately, if one wants Ponti's Scriabin complete (even if one chooses to supplement his sonatas with something in better sound) one has to buy both this set and his set of the "Complete Piano Music" on five CD's. That's actually not so bad--the sets are cheap enough.

However, if merely getting the complete Scriabin is your goal, there are alternatives.

1. There's a really excellent 8-disc set of all Scriabin works with opus numbers available on Capriccio played by Maria Lettberg. This is really first-rate, and can form the basis of your Scriabin collection Das Solo-Klavierwerk. The set can also be downloaded as MP3's from the NAXOS website.

2. Two possibilities here: Lettberg doesn't play any of the posthumously-published early Scriabin. Most of this is available on Coombs's CD, "The Early Scriabin," (The Early Scriabin.). Unfortunately, he omits the early "Albumleaves" in F-sharp and A-flat and the Fantasy for Two Pianos. All of the pieces Coombs plays plus everything he doesn't are in Ponti's set called "Complete Piano Music" Complete Piano Works of Scriabin. The sound of this set can be rendered fairly listenable with the tone controls.

To sum up: Get Lettberg's set. Add the early works she doesn't play with Coomb's "The Early Scriabin", OR, (for absolute completeness) from the "complete piano music" set by Ponti. And oh, yes, you might want another set of the sonatas--these pieces are so multi-faceted that you might want more than one interpretation-my personal favorite is Hamelin.

RE the Sonata in E-flat minor: This work has come down to us unfinished. Although I personally prefer Ponti's completion of the unfinished slow movement to Glemser's or Coombs's, his recording is rather out of the running because he plays the wrong first movement--i.e., the revised version of the first movement as the "Allegro appassionato, Op.4"--how did THAT happen?

I hope this helps!
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