Composer: Rued Immanuel Langgaard, Alexander Scriabin
Performer: Gustav Piekut
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574312
Release: 2021
Size: 168 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Scriabin: 3 Pieces Op. 45
01. No. 1, Feuillet d’album
02. No. 2, Poème fantasque
03. No. 3, Prélude
04. Langgaard: Sponsa Christi tædium vitæ, BVN 29
05. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
Langgaard: Afgrundsmusik (Music of the Abyss), BVN169
06. I. Inflessibile mostruoso
07. II. Frenetico, quasi rondo
08. Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 ‘Black Mass’
09. Langgaard: Flammekamrene BVN221 (The Flame Chambers)
10. Scriabin: Vers la flamme, Op. 72
Both Scriabin and Langgaard believed that through their music they could pave the way for a spiritual revolution. The piano offered a perfect and very intimate medium for their highly personal harmonic and expressive vocabularies. Scriabin drew on daemonic associations in his Piano Sonata No. 9 to liberate the old tonal system, whereas Langgaard explored his youthful fascination with Catholicism in music of fanaticism and ecstasy. Langgaard’s The Flame Chambers and Scriabin’s Vers la flamme are feverish musical twins that exemplify both composers’ explosive intensity.