Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62

Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain would become happiness and hate become love, culminating in a phoenix-like... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…

[Peter Donohoe] finds a nobility in the First Sonata’s closing ‘Funebre’, bringing a curious reflective quality to its ‘Quasi niente’ central section. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, 3 out of 5 starsMore…

For all his scrupulous attention to the music’s murmurings, the more outgoing rhythmic cross-currents are handled stunningly; and because of his control of balances there’s a marvelous glow... — Fanfare, January/February 2020More…