Browse: Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 4 in F sharp major, Op. 30

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, 2010 More…

His mature affinity for Scriabin comes through in the way he contours phrases, sentences and paragraphs, and in his sensitive layering of complex textures…Where Kholodenko is least persuasive... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

this latest issue provides ample confirmation of a stature too long unrecognised...The treacherous leaps at the close of the march from Schumann’s Fantasie hold no terrors for Fiorentino, and... — International Piano, March 2021 More…

Fedorova’s Chopin is unfailingly sensitive, poetic and tasteful, the phrases flexibly shaped even when the technical going gets tough. In Liszt and Scriabin, too, she never forces her tone and... — Gramophone Magazine, February 2020 More…

in wave after wave of opulently ambivalent harmony, Hough brings orientation and direction without sacrificing sensuality or mystical aura. He accomplishes this through an almost uncanny variety... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

There’s no shortage of fine Scriabin recordings, so Igor Gryshyn offers something off the beaten track...It’s not just a case of bringing the music of a fellow Ukrainian to a wider audience;... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It takes a while to 'tune in' to HJ Lim's style. Her playing of Ravel's Valses nobles et sentimentales seems a perverse denial of its dance rhythms...Yet by the final track, Ravel's La valse,... — BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, 2 out of 5 stars/4 out of 5 stars More…