Valentina Lisitsa is a remarkable pianist, with consistent YouTube video views reaching over 90 million total and with almost 200,000 subscribers. Following her recent, well-received recordings of Glass, Nyman, and the Études of Chopin and Schumann, she now turns to the piano works of Scriabin. For Scriabin’s 100th anniversary in 2015 – Valentina delves into his lesser-known works and finds some beautiful gems. Across a carefully selected range of works for piano, this album showcases Scriabin’s compositions through his lifetime.
J**N
Five Stars
Valentina is wonderful in this music. Disc was a bargain at the price and it arrived quite quickly.
G**X
Beautiful performances
These are beautiful, idiomatic performances of short Scriabin works (i.e. they do not include the sonatas) ranging across his output - quite a few early pieces, some middle and a few late. I can say this, although I have not bought this CD, because these are duplications of the pieces Valentina Lisitsa plays which are included in the 18 CD Scriabin Complete Works which came out last year. I am assuming that they actually are the same recordings. It is great to have them all bundled together on one CD, but people who bought the excellently priced Complete Works (which I did) may not want this as well. If you didn't buy the Complete Works set - well this would be a great buy.
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