Yevgeny Sudbin plays Scriabin

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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…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2007
Catalogue No: BISSACD1568
Label: BIS
Length: 57 minutes

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Excerpt, Scriabin: 12 Etudes for piano, Op. 8

Work length11:13

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

12 Etudes, Op. 8: No. 12 in D-Sharp Minor

Track length11:13

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Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G sharp minor, Op. 19 'Sonata Fantasy'

Work length10:51

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

I. Andante

Track length8:20

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II. Presto

Track length2:31

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Scriabin: Prelude & Nocturne, Op. 9

Work length8:26

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

3 Pieces, Op. 2: No. 1, Etude in C-Sharp Minor

Track length8:26

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Excerpt, Scriabin: Ten Mazurkas, Op. 3

Work length10:25

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

Mazurka No. 3 in G Minor

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Mazurka No. 6 in C-Sharp Minor

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Mazurka No. 1 in B Minor

Track length1:42

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Mazurka No. 4 in E Major

Track length2:05

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

Work length3:51

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

Excerpt, Scriabin: Quatre Morceaux Op. 56

Work length3:51

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

No. 3, Nuances

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Excerpt, Scriabin: 2 Pieces for Piano, Op. 59

Work length1:10

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

No. 1, Poeme

Track length1:10

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Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68, "Black Mass"

Work length1:39

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

Scriabin: Waltz in A flat major, Op. 38

Work length5:51

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Yevgeny Sudbin
Recorded: August 2006
Recording Venue: Vasteras Concert Hall, Sweden

Waltz in A-Flat Major, Op. 38

Track length5:51

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January 2008

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 Pletnev.

2010

Writing in prose as delirious as his playing, Yevgeny Sudbin speaks in his accompanying nine-page essay of the incomprehension that greeted Scriabin's half-crazed genius in both Russia and the West. This is entirely apt and no pianist of any generation has surely captured Scriabin's volatility so vividly as Sudbin.
In his choice of sonatas (ranging through Scriabin's early, middle and late periods), his mix of drama and introspection are positively alchemic and entirely his own. It is as if the music's very nerve ends are exposed to view and rarely has a pianist been prepared to take such risks on record. He takes virtuosity to the very edge at the end of the Fifth Sonata and his daredevil aplomb is at its height in the Ninth, suitably named Black Mass Sonata.
How he varies the colour, light and shade in the early D sharp minor Etude so that its familiar heroic octaves sound newly minted and never merely frenetic! His selection of Mazurkas is given with a breathtaking subtlety, making you long to hear him in Chopin, while his response to Scriabin's command in the Fifth Sonata, presto tumultuoso esaltato, is like the vortex of a whirlwind. All these performances are flecked with personal touches and brilliances above and beyond even Scriabin's wildest demands.
Finally, BIS captures Sudbin's astonishing range of colours and sonorities, ranging from the utmost delicacy to an enraged uproar, in crystalline demonstration sound. This, put suitably euphorically, is a disc in a million.

December 2007

…no pianist of any generation has, in my experience, captured Scriabin's volatility so vividly as Sudbin. All these performances are flecked with personal touches and brilliances above and beyond even Scriabin's wildest demands. Finally, BIS captures Sudbin's astonishing range of colours and sonorities, ranging from the utmost delicacy to an enraged uproar, in crystalline demonstration sound. This, put suitably euphorically, is a disc in a million.

25th February 2014

His staccato notes are hair-raising, jutting out violently...,and the climax is terrifying. In the second sonata’s fast movement, Sudbin is ruthless and machine-like in his efficiency - a performance that seems to gobble the notes up. However, Sudbin is not a total wild man, either...His étude Op. 8 No. 12 is all the more powerful for being dynamically rather reserved.

Yevgeny Sudbin plays Scriabin

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