Browse: Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 5 in F sharp major, Op. 53

The Russian mystic’s most layered, outlandish scores need state-of-the-art sound. Trust BIS to provide it from producer Robert Suff and sound engineer Fabian Frank, working in Singapore’s Esplanade... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain would become happiness and hate become love, culminating in a phoenix-like... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

His mature affinity for Scriabin comes through in the way he contours phrases, sentences and paragraphs, and in his sensitive layering of complex textures…Where Kholodenko is least persuasive... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

This is music that demands pianism of superlative quality, and here Yevgeny Sudbin miraculously combines the volcanic intensity of Vladimir Horowitz with the cat-and-mouse tonal reflexes of Mikhail... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

in wave after wave of opulently ambivalent harmony, Hough brings orientation and direction without sacrificing sensuality or mystical aura. He accomplishes this through an almost uncanny variety... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…