Baerenreiter Verlag Complete Piano Sonatas - Skrjabin - Performance Score, Anthology, Urtext Edition - Piano Complete Piano Sonatas - Skrjabin - Performance Score, Anthology, Urtext Edition - Piano

Composer: Aleksandr Skrjabin
Editor: Christoph Flamm
Format: Performance score, Anthology, Urtext edition
Instrumentation: Piano

No genre reflects Skrjabin's artistic evolution more vividly than his piano sonatas. Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 and 8 which are presented in this edition were written between 1911 and 1913, at times contemporaneously with the late Sonatas Nos. 9 and 10.
All autographs and printed sources including Skrjabin's sketches and drafts have been thoroughly evaluated. The edition presents a meticulously edited musical text offering new readings and is supplemented by an informative Preface on the sonatas' genesis and significance (Ger/Eng). The Critical Commentary (Eng) provides information on alternative readings and editorial decisions. An elegant well-presented engraving with practical page-turns rounds off this edition at the cutting edge of musical scholarship.
The clarity and correctness of the text are unimpeachable. ... The plentiful front-matter, quite separate from the texts, constitutes a complete education as to Scriabin's harmonic style, the structure of these sonatas, their origin and source history, and many other background matters. All of these are scrupulously annotated. ... Study of this edition is an indispensable guide to a fuller understanding of Scriabin as a human being and thinker, as well as an uniquely innovative and rich composer for the piano." (Simon Nicholls)