Orchestral, Symphonies, Scriabin (composer)
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Special offer. Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & The Poem of Ecstasy
Russian National Orchestra & Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory, Mikhail Pletnev
there is a good deal which is captivating in Mikhail Pletnev's excellent performance: in the thistledown Scherzo, the Russian National Orchestra demonstates polished and tight ensemble playing... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Barber, Sibelius & Scriabin: One Movement Symphonies
Kansas City Symphony, Michael Stern
Founded in 1982, this orchestra offers here a classy standard of playing, plus the conductor-and-orchestra chemistry that’s needed to generate musical results as memorable as these, and in three... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Scriabin: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2
RecommendedEkaterina Sergeeva (mezzo-soprano) & Alexander Timchenko (tenor)
London Symphony Orchestra & London Symphony Chorus, Valery Gergiev
there’s a great sense of freedom in this music that Gergiev manages to create ... Gergiev’s volatility really works in this Scriabin. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 2 & Piano Concerto
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko
Petrenko is the ideal interpreter for this ripe overheated music…The Oslo Philharmonic responds with brilliantly incisive ensemble…Gerstein makes the most of Scriabin’s poetic writing with some... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2017
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Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No. 2
RecommendedBuffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Joann Falletta
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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R. Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, Trv 176 - Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (Live)
RecommendedSeattle Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard
Both [works] need this wide soundscape and the art that conceals art for the details in a clear, broad picture. We still get the timbres of woodwind and harps adding their splashes of colour;... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Orchestral Choice
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 & Prometheus
RecommendedKirill Gerstein (piano)
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Oslo Philharmonic Choir, Vasily Petrenko
Never discursive or splashy, Petrenko’s forensic view of the composer may not please those brought up on Soviet-era music-making but I found it very persuasive. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st September 2018
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Here is a cunning and potent mix of every conceivable form of pianistic and musical intricacy (it excludes the merely decorative, salon or ephemeral). Everything is of the most absorbing interest;... —
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Abbado conducts Debussy and Ravel
Boston Symphony Orchestra, with New England Conservatory Chorus, Claudio Abbado
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 2 & Piano Concerto
Peter Jablonski (piano)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Vladimir Ashkenazy