This multi-album set of piano works by Scriabin is the fourth and final installment in Dmitri Alexeev's monumental endeavor to record Scriabin's entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, an eight-album collection that includes the earlier Complete Preludes, Complete etudes and Complete Piano Sonatas. This set gathers all the works that do not belong to the uniform cycles of the previous three releases, and the title captures three interesting trends in this huge range of opus numbers spanning 25 years, without being overly prescriptive. The Mazurkas represent a youthful devotion to Chopin that matured into lifelong inspiration; the many Poemes (whether or not they bear that specific title) are emblematic of the imagery and emotional and spiritual content with which the works are imbued; and the Impromptus evoke Scriabin's mold-breaking compositional freedom and the genius of his idiosyncratic stream of consciousness and individual pianism. There are other noteworthy genres here with an important place in his piano output, including sonata-form movements that ultimately would be stand-alone pieces, nocturnes, other dances, and a pair of album leaves. Many of these pieces provide this collection with valuable continuity, constituting bridges in the development of the composer's art and pianism between the individual sonatas, etudes and preludes that feature in the previous volumes. Or they provide context: for example, the three pieces of Opus 51 given here are the companions to the Prelude Op.51 No.2 that featured alone in the previous prelude cycle. As such they are not a "catch all" but a worthy and indispensable final piece of the puzzle depicting this extraordinary creator.
2 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 1. Tempo Giusto in B minor
3 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 2. Allegretto Non Tanto in F Sharp minor
4 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 3. Allegretto in G minor
5 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 4. Moderato in E
6 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 5. Doloroso in D Sharp minor
7 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 6. Scherzando in C Sharp minor
8 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 7. Con Passione in E minor
9 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 8. Con Moto in B Flat minor
10 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 9. Mazurka in G Sharp minor
11 10 Mazurkas Op. 3-No. 10. Mazurka in E Flat minor
12 Allegro Appassionato Op. 4
13 2 Nocturnes Op. 5-No. 1 in F Sharp minor
14 2 Nocturnes Op. 5-No. 2 in a
15 2 Impromptus À la Mazur Op. 7-No. 1 in G Sharp minor
16 2 Impromptus À la Mazur Op. 7-No. 2 in F Sharp
17 2 Morceaux Pour la Main Gauche Op. 9/2. Nocturne
18 2 Impromptus Op. 10-No. 1 in F Sharp minor
19 2 Impromptus Op. 10-No. 2 in a
- Disc 2 -
1 2 Impromptus Op. 12-No. 1 in F Sharp
2 2 Impromptus Op. 12-No. 2 in B Flat minor
3 2 Impromptus Op. 14-No. 1 in B
4 2 Impromptus Op. 14-No. 2 in F Sharp minor
5 Allegro de Concert Op. 18
6 Polonaise Op. 21
7 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 1 in F minor
8 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 2 in C
9 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 3 in E minor
10 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 4 in E
11 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 5 in C Sharp minor
12 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 6 in F Sharp
13 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 7 in F Sharp minor
14 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 8 in B
15 9 Mazurkas Op. 25-No. 9 in E Flat minor
16 Fantaisie Op. 28
17 2 Poèmes Op. 32-No. 1 in F Sharp
18 2 Poèmes Op. 32-No. 2 in D
19 Poème Tragique Op. 34
- Disc 3 -
1 Poème Satanique Op. 36
2 Valse Op. 38
3 2 Mazurkas Op. 40-No. 1 in D Flat
4 2 Mazurkas Op. 40-No. 2 in F Sharp
5 Poème Op. 41
6 Feuillet D'album in F Sharp
7 2 Poèmes Op. 44-No. 1 in C (Lento)
8 2 Poèmes Op. 44-No. 2 in C (Moderato)
9 3 Morceaux Op. 45-No. 1. Feuillet D'album
10 3 Morceaux Op. 45-No. 2. Poème Fantasque
11 Scherzo Op. 46
12 3 Morceaux Op. 49-No. 3. Rêverie
13 4 Morceaux Op. 51-No. 1. Fragilité
14 4 Morceaux Op. 51-No. 3. Poème Ailé
15 4 Morceaux Op. 51-No. 4. Danse Languide
16 3 Morceaux Op. 52-No. 1. Poème
17 3 Morceaux Op. 52-No. 2. Énigme
18 3 Morceaux Op. 52-No. 3. Poème Languide
19 4 Pièces Op. 56-No. 2. Ironies
20 4 Pièces Op. 56-No. 3. Nuances
21 2 Morceaux Op. 57-No. 1. Désir
22 2 Morceaux Op. 57-No. 2. Caresse Dansée
23 Feuillet D'album Op. 58
24 2 Morceaux Op. 59/1. Poème
25 Poème-Nocturne Op. 61
26 2 Poèmes Op. 63-No. 1. Masque
27 2 Poèmes Op. 63-No. 2. Étrangeté
28 2 Poèmes Op. 71-No. 1. Fantastique
29 2 Poèmes Op. 71-No. 2. en Rêvant, Avec Une Grande Douceur
30 Vers la Flamme (Poème) Op. 72
31 2 Danses Op. 73-No. 1. Guirlandes
32 2 Danses Op. 73-No. 2. Flammes Sombres
This multi-album set of piano works by Scriabin is the fourth and final installment in Dmitri Alexeev's monumental endeavor to record Scriabin's entire oeuvre for the piano on Brilliant Classics, an eight-album collection that includes the earlier Complete Preludes, Complete etudes and Complete Piano Sonatas. This set gathers all the works that do not belong to the uniform cycles of the previous three releases, and the title captures three interesting trends in this huge range of opus numbers spanning 25 years, without being overly prescriptive. The Mazurkas represent a youthful devotion to Chopin that matured into lifelong inspiration; the many Poemes (whether or not they bear that specific title) are emblematic of the imagery and emotional and spiritual content with which the works are imbued; and the Impromptus evoke Scriabin's mold-breaking compositional freedom and the genius of his idiosyncratic stream of consciousness and individual pianism. There are other noteworthy genres here with an important place in his piano output, including sonata-form movements that ultimately would be stand-alone pieces, nocturnes, other dances, and a pair of album leaves. Many of these pieces provide this collection with valuable continuity, constituting bridges in the development of the composer's art and pianism between the individual sonatas, etudes and preludes that feature in the previous volumes. Or they provide context: for example, the three pieces of Opus 51 given here are the companions to the Prelude Op.51 No.2 that featured alone in the previous prelude cycle. As such they are not a "catch all" but a worthy and indispensable final piece of the puzzle depicting this extraordinary creator.
