Browse: Scriabin - Preludes (5), Op. 16

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…

Chochieva is very much attuned to Scriabin’s lyricism. It’s hard to imagine a more idyllic or intimate performance of the gentler preludes on this recording. In the sonatas, Chochieva is particularly... — Fanfare, Nov/Dec 2022 More…

Mustonen emphasises the music's stylistic antecedents, rather than looking forward to the expressive ambivalence of Scriabin's later music...Whatever the technical demands involved, Mustonon... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a fascinating sequence, as valuable for its musical comprehensiveness as for the opportunity it grants to hear just how differing tonal shades can alter the effect that this supreme colourist... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2022 More…

Not since Gordon Fergus-Thompson’s outstanding Scriabin series for ASV has the other-worldly, deeply sensual aspects of this extraordinary music been brought so alluringly to life — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

It’s a tribute both to Scriabin and his interpreter Daniel Pereira that we are not bored, despite the consistency of the compositional voice… the pleasure of this collection lies in how Scriabin... — International Piano, September 2020 More…