Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz Plays Scriabin (2015) [3CD] [EAC-FLAC]

Vladimir Horowitz - Horowitz Plays Scriabin (2015) [3CD]
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According to the astute Russian musical and cultural historian, Solomon Volkov, Alexander Scriabin’s death in April 1915 precipitated a mass-fixation which has no precedent or equivalent. This Scriabin intoxication extended far beyond the musical sphere and permeated every sector of Russian cultural life – even Tchaikovsky never registered such a broad impact. It was in this charged climate that Vladimir Horowitz, born in 1903, was raised. Horowitz’s family had longstanding ties to the musical elite in Kiev, and it was through these connections that Horowitz was introduced to Scriabin’s music and to the composer himself. Horowitz came to his mastery of Scriabin through a confluence of circumstances. In 1965 he explained that, by the time he retired in 1953, he had grown tired of “modern” music and sought to return to the “romantic” and “classical” composers, like Scriabin, that he had known during his childhood.

The performances on Horowitz Plays Scriabin, a newly remastered 3-CD set, document a trajectory from 1950 to 1976, both with regard to the Scriabin repertoire Horowitz selected and to his powers of interpretation. Horowitz’s admonition that “I will grow until I die!” is most tangibly confirmed by the stark difference in his two live recorded performances of Scriabin’s Ninth Sonata, often known as the “Black Mass,” from 1953 and 1965. Horowitz heavily favored the latter.

This three-CD package from Sony Classical consists of Vladimir Horowitz's studio recordings of the piano music of Alexander Scriabin, recorded between 1950 and 1976 and previously issued by RCA Victor and Columbia Masterworks, along with several live recordings.

As a young pianist in Russia, Horowitz met Scriabin.

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CD1
01 - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23 - I. Drammatico
02 - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23 - II. Allegretto
03 - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23 - III. Andante
04 - Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23 - IV. Presto con fuoco - Meno mosso
05 - Prelude in C Major, Op. 11, No. 1 - Vivace
06 - Prelude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 11, No. 10 - Andante
07 - Prelude in E Major, Op. 11, No. 9 - Andantino
08 - Prelude in G Major, Op. 11, No. 3 - Vivo
09 - Prelude in B-Flat Minor, Op. 11, No. 16 - Misterioso
10 - Prelude in G-Flat Major, Op. 11, No. 13 - Lento
11 - Prelude in E-Flat Minor, Op. 11, No. 14 - Presto
12 - Prelude in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 15, No. 2 - Vivo
13 - Prelude in B Major, Op. 16, No. 1 - Andante
14 - Prelude in B Minor, Op. 13, No. 6 - Presto
15 - Prelude in E-Flat Minor, Op. 16, No. 4 - Lento
16 - Prelude in G Minor, Op. 27, No. 1 - Patetico
17 - Prelude in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2 - Lugubre
18 - Prelude in D-Flat Major, Op. 48, No. 3 - Capricciosamente affannato
19 - Prelude, Op. 67, No. 1 - Andante
20 - Prelude, Op. 59, No. 2 - Sauvage, belliqueux
21 - Prelude in D Major, Op. 11, No. 5 - Andante cantabile
22 - Prelude in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 22, No. 1 - Andante
23 - Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1 - Andante

CD2
01 - Poeme in F-Sharp Major, Op. 32, No. 1 - Andante cantabile
02 - Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1 - Andante
03 - Etude in D-Sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 12 - Patetico
04 - Feuillet d'album in E-Flat Major, Op. 45, No. 1 - Andante piacevole
05 - Etude in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 2 - A capriccio, con forza
06 - Etude in B-Flat Minor, Op. 8, No. 11 - Andante cantabile
07 - Etude in D-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 10 - Allegro
08 - Etude in A-Flat Major, Op. 8, No. 8 - Lento - Tempo rubato
09 - Etude in F-Sharp Major, Op. 42, No. 3 - Prestissimo
10 - Etude in F-Sharp Major, Op. 42, No. 4 - Andante
11 - Etude in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 42, No. 5 - Affannato
12 - Poeme, Op. 69, No. 1 - Allegretto
13 - Poeme, Op. 69, No. 2 - Allegretto - Piu vivo
14 - Vers la flamme - Poeme Op. 72 - Allegro moderato
15 - Feuillet d'album, Op. 58 - Con delicatezza
16 - Etude, Op. 65, No. 3 - Molto vivace - Imperieux - Pestissimo


CD3
01 - Piano Sonata In F Major, Op. 68, No. 9 'Black Mass'
02 - Poeme In F-Sharp Major, Op. 32, No. 1
03 - Etude In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
04 - Piano Sonata In C Major, Op. 70, No. 10
05 - Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53
06 - Etude In D-Sharp Minor, Op. 8, No. 12
07 - Etude In B-Flat Minor, Op. 8, No. 11: Andante Cantabile
08 - Etude In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 42, No. 5
09 - Piano Sonata In F Major, Op. 68, No. 9 'Black Mass'

*2015 / Sony DDD 503837



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