Scriabin: Late Piano Works

Brighton-born, Moscow-trained Yuri Paterson-Olenich shows real understanding of Scriabin's visionary music, including one of the weirdest sonatas, the Seventh. What he lacks in sheer volume he... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2000 More…

Release Date: 28th Feb 2011
Catalogue No: EDITION001
Label: Prometheus Editions

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Scriabin: Preludes (2), Op. 67

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass'

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

Scriabin: Three Etudes Op. 65 (1911 / 1912)

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 'Black Mass'

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

Scriabin: Vers la flamme, Op. 72

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

Scriabin: Poème in F sharp major, Op. 32 No. 1

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

Scriabin: Poèmes, Op. 69 Nos. 1 & 2

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70

Yuri Paterson-Olenich (piano)

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What is immediately striking about the late works is the tonal variance of mood between them. This duality is reflected in the selection of works on this disc, where there are sombre, more sinister works such as the Ninth Sonata, the light and airy Poèmes Op. 69, and the sublimely ethereal Tenth Sonata.—(Yuri Paterson-Olenich)

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December 2000

Brighton-born, Moscow-trained Yuri Paterson-Olenich shows real understanding of Scriabin's visionary music, including one of the weirdest sonatas, the Seventh. What he lacks in sheer volume he makes up for in poetic dreaminess, though textures are always clear.

Diapason

Paterson-Olenich shows a deep understanding of this music.

August 2001

Time and again he allows one to savour every aspect of Scriabin’s neurotic sensibility...playing with spaciousness and lucidity, never whirled into obscure agitation by the composer’s idiosyncratic directionsPaterson-Olenich has contributed his own lively and informed essay, and the recordings...are excellent. An exceptional, very personal issue.

September/October 2001

The intensity with which Paterson-Olenich conveys Scriabin’s vision is, on several of the tracks, unrivalled in recent recordings. Several performances really stand out; I was impressed by the austerity and poise of the Prelude, op.67 No.1, the brilliance and range of colour employed in the Op.65 Studies and Vers la flamme, the dark intensity of the Ninth Sonata. This disc is a testament to Paterson-Olenich’s affinity with Scriabin’s late music.

9th September 2000

The first recording from this new label brings a powerfully expressive recital of Scriabin's most searching works, including the "White" and "Black" Masses, Piano Sonata No.10 and Vers la flamme. The young Brighton-born pianist tackles them all with astonishing assurance: a most auspicious début.

Yorkshire Evening Post

Paterson-Olenich, born in Brighton in 1974, is a Russian-trained pianist who makes light of Scriabin’s fiendishly difficult scores. He does not quite match those volcanic outbursts of the great Scriabin pianists, though he is superb in the delicate sonorities of the Poems.

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