Scriabin: Complete Poèmes for Piano

Featuring

Garrick Ohlsson
Alexander Scriabin

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Scriabin believed that all music must be communicable in dance, a sentiment he shared with his friend and associate Sabaneev.

Compositional Technique

Scriabin frequently used tritones in the bass line, a technique that grew on him and gave his music an equivocal and immaterial quality.

Performer Biography

Garrick Ohlsson has a vast repertoire, including some eighty concertos, and is known for his performances of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Romantic repertoire.

Performer Biography

Garrick Ohlsson, the pianist on this recording, won the Gold Medal at the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, which brought him worldwide recognition.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Scriabin's identification with the Symbolist movement led him to associate music with color (in Prometheus) and scent (in the projected Misteriya), reflecting the movement's belief in an intimate association of all the arts.

Composer Biography

Scriabin, already married to pianist Vera Isakovich, began a close relationship with Tatyana Schloezer in 1904, who became his partner for the rest of his life.

Compositional Technique

Scriabin often used highly individual markings in his scores, such as the coined word 'inaferando' in Deux poèmes, Op 32 No 1, which may mean 'lightly touching' or 'imperceptible'.