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Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 'Sonata Fantasy'
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Instrumental » Piano Solos » Piano Sonatas
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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... —
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Many of us will have in our collections recordings of certain live piano recitals that have achieved legendary status...Yuja Wang’s Verbier debut should be placed alongside them. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Piano
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Melnikov’s control of texture, colour and mood rivals even the grand master, Horowitz. Outstanding. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2006, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, February 2022, Recommended Recording
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Kanneh-Mason never takes a musical idea and beats you around the head with it: if anything, it feels improvised and throwaway. It’s refreshing to have a young musician not deliver something... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Shortlisted - Newcomer
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This is music that demands pianism of superlative quality, and here Yevgeny Sudbin miraculously combines the volcanic intensity of Vladimir Horowitz with the cat-and-mouse tonal reflexes of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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[Peter Donohoe] finds a nobility in the First Sonata’s closing ‘Funebre’, bringing a curious reflective quality to its ‘Quasi niente’ central section. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Winner - Historical Recording
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Building A Library, February 2022, Also Recommended
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…Yuja Wang… has all the equipment to be one of the most exciting pianists of her generation. As well as a stunning technique she has a fabulous range of sonority and colour… the two Ligeti... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2009, Editor's Choice
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22-year old Russian Boris Giltburg is completely inside Musorgsky's multiple personalities… There are some riveting crystalline staccatos and accurate but always musical sudden accents for... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2006, Instrumental Choice
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