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Nuno Cernadas - Scriabin - The Complete Piano Sonatas [CD]

Nuno Cernadas - Scriabin - The Complete Piano Sonatas [CD]

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Alexander Scriabin's (1872-1915) piano sonatas offer a uniquely encompassing insight into the composer's fascinating music and aesthetics, and their development over the span of his creative life.

Upon first listening, Scriabin's piano sonatas seem to be a group of widely different works written in unrelated styles, as if they would be the result of the creative labour of different composers. On closer and repeated listening, however, they emerge as individual crystallised stages in a sweeping process of philosophical and aesthetic metamorphosis - a process that encompasses the constraints of the composer's own condition, his developing musical thought, and his philosophical understanding of the cosmos and his own place in it. Contact with the mystic philosophy, namely Theosophy, and with Silver Age Symbolist artists and thinkers was crucial to this development.

The wealth of expression contained in Scriabin's sonatas - ranging from the passionate romantic outbursts of the first three, through the flights and ecstatic dances of the middle period's first three, through the late sonatas' musical representation of mystical dissolution - is, I would dare say, unparalleled in the history of music. This paradox of variety within unity, well enshrined in the mystic philosophy so dear to Scriabin, demands of the pianist (and the public) an intense effort in identifying each sonata's idiosyncrasies without losing the feeling of the whole.

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'Cernadas can be delicate and sensual, but he also convinces with original articulation and a pronounced penchant for rubato and dynamic variations. His bold imagination never bores the listener. His interpretations remain rhythmically variable and lively because they respect the tension curves inherent in the music as well as the composer's mood indications in the sonatas, which are so different.' \x96 Pizzicato

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Featured on BBC Radio 3's Record Review on 23rd November: 'He does very well \x96 overall this is a very important disc, and he is a terrific pianist. It's a real achievement and I love being taken on that journey by another pianist.'

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'The fifth sonata [\x85] is an old warhorse, and I did wonder whether Cernadas could give us a fresh interpretation. That he does, with the fast sections suitably light and nimble \x96 and also dry, with the pedal lifted \x96 while the languid passages are nicely turned and not too slow. The ending goes off like a rocket, as it should. [\x85] I have been very favourably impressed: Cernadas both understands this music and has the technique to play it.' \x96 Music Web International

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'Cernadas delivers a truly intense, mysterious and powerful rendition of the Ninth Sonata. The way he pedals the opening motif creates a hazy, enigmatic aura that contrasts vividly with the intensity of the music that follows.' \x96 International Piano

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 I. Allegro con fuoco

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 23 I. Drammatico

II. (Adagio)

II. Allegretto

III. Presto

III. Andante

IV. Funebre

IV. Presto con fuoco

Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19 (Sonate-Fantaisie) I. Andante

Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30 I. Andante

II. Presto

II. Prestissimo volando

Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62

Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66

Deux Morceaux, Op. 57 I. Desir

Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (Black Mass)

II. Caresse dansee

Feuillet d'album, Op. 58

Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 (White Mass)

Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70

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Alexander Scriabin's (1872-1915) piano sonatas offer a uniquely encompassing insight into the composer's fascinating music and aesthetics, and their development over the span of his creative life.

Upon first listening, Scriabin's piano sonatas seem to be a group of widely different works written in unrelated styles, as if they would be the result of the creative labour of different composers. On closer and repeated listening, however, they emerge as individual crystallised stages in a sweeping process of philosophical and aesthetic metamorphosis - a process that encompasses the constraints of the composer's own condition, his developing musical thought, and his philosophical understanding of the cosmos and his own place in it. Contact with the mystic philosophy, namely Theosophy, and with Silver Age Symbolist artists and thinkers was crucial to this development.

The wealth of expression contained in Scriabin's sonatas - ranging from the passionate romantic outbursts of the first three, through the flights and ecstatic dances of the middle period's first three, through the late sonatas' musical representation of mystical dissolution - is, I would dare say, unparalleled in the history of music. This paradox of variety within unity, well enshrined in the mystic philosophy so dear to Scriabin, demands of the pianist (and the public) an intense effort in identifying each sonata's idiosyncrasies without losing the feeling of the whole.

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'Cernadas can be delicate and sensual, but he also convinces with original articulation and a pronounced penchant for rubato and dynamic variations. His bold imagination never bores the listener. His interpretations remain rhythmically variable and lively because they respect the tension curves inherent in the music as well as the composer's mood indications in the sonatas, which are so different.' x96 Pizzicato

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Featured on BBC Radio 3's Record Review on 23rd November: 'He does very well x96 overall this is a very important disc, and he is a terrific pianist. It's a real achievement and I love being taken on that journey by another pianist.'

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'The fifth sonata [x85] is an old warhorse, and I did wonder whether Cernadas could give us a fresh interpretation. That he does, with the fast sections suitably light and nimble x96 and also dry, with the pedal lifted x96 while the languid passages are nicely turned and not too slow. The ending goes off like a rocket, as it should. [x85] I have been very favourably impressed: Cernadas both understands this music and has the technique to play it.' x96 Music Web International

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'Cernadas delivers a truly intense, mysterious and powerful rendition of the Ninth Sonata. The way he pedals the opening motif creates a hazy, enigmatic aura that contrasts vividly with the intensity of the music that follows.' x96 International Piano

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 I. Allegro con fuoco

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 23 I. Drammatico

II. (Adagio)

II. Allegretto

III. Presto

III. Andante

IV. Funebre

IV. Presto con fuoco

Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19 (Sonate-Fantaisie) I. Andante

Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30 I. Andante

II. Presto

II. Prestissimo volando

Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62

Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66

Deux Morceaux, Op. 57 I. Desir

Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (Black Mass)

II. Caresse dansee

Feuillet d'album, Op. 58

Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 (White Mass)

Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70

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Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 6 I. Allegro con fuoco

Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 23 I. Drammatico

II. (Adagio)

II. Allegretto

III. Presto

III. Andante

IV. Funebre

IV. Presto con fuoco

Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19 (Sonate-Fantaisie) I. Andante

Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30 I. Andante

II. Presto

II. Prestissimo volando

Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62

Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53

Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66

Deux Morceaux, Op. 57 I. Desir

Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 (Black Mass)

II. Caresse dansee

Feuillet d'album, Op. 58

Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 (White Mass)

Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70

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