Scriabin: Complete Solo Piano Works

Revived music by post-Scriabin composer

Advantages: Little known music played extremely well
Disadvantages: Music has harsh dissonances and is not easy to understand

play, but not very listenable, while the last, Burlando, is fun to listen to. The sonatas have contrasting moods in sections, within a single movement. They contain some exciting rhythms which are reminscent of Scriabin. There are some other preludes and short pieces, similar in style to the poems and sonatas, but with the material more condensed than in the sonatas. Overall the music is a little more difficult to listen to than late Scriabin, and I would not have appreciated the music without listening to Scriabin first. As far as I know, this is the only recording of piano music by Roslavets, and it contains all his works for solo piano. This recording is so good that it would be difficult for another pianist to produce another to compare with it. This recording is highly recommended for anyone who wants to listen to ...

skriabini 31.03.2006 · Read full review
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Frank Bridge - Piano Music rediscovered

Advantages: Excellent selection and performance of piano works by Frank Bridge
Disadvantages: A few pieces are not very interesting

Frank Bridge was an early twentieth century English composer. His works are not widely known, but are played increasingly, and more recordings are becoming available. Some of his later works, such as his piano sonata, were influenced by Scriabin. This CD is the second of three, and covers a wide range of styles, but mostly in his earlier style. Most of the pieces on this CD are fairly easy to listen to, and can be enjoyed by the majority of classical music lovers. The opening piece, Etude Rhapsodique, is an etude appropriately played by Jacobs, in the grand manner (of Liszt and other nineteenth century virtuosi), full of late nineteenth century panache, but with Bridge's own distinctive voice. The second piece, Berceuse, is played beautifully, a gentle piece as the name would suggest (a lullaby) but again with Bridge's own ...

skriabini 02.04.2006 · Read full review
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THE PIANO TEACHER - (LA PIANISTE)

Advantages: Excellent physcological study of character.
Disadvantages: Grim, brutal, shocking scenes of a sexual nature.

the piano with excellence is evident, and although she trains them to this stage of perfection, she becomes jealous of their hard earned achievement when they have reached their pinnacle. Erica is highly strung and sexually charged, and she is also a bitter and vindictive individual. One day she meets a promising young male pianist at a recital, by the name of Walter (Magimel Kramer). Walter is a handsome,arrogant, and self confident young man, and there is an instantaneous strong mutual bond, a meeting of minds, and a deep physical attraction, and she sees something in him that she seems to have been searching for. They talk and discover they both share the love of the works of Schumann and Schubert. This is a further attraction for Erica, and an unhealthy obsession towards him begins to take shape in her mind. ~ Erica teaches ...

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