Vladimir Sofronitsky plays Scriabin Sonata-Fantasy (2/2)

[Louhk1]

Thank you very much for sharing this precious recording! I own the LP, but the sound quality is really lessened compared to your upload. Do you numerically "clean" your recordings before you post them, or do you extract them from some CD ? Otherwise, it might come from the weakness of my old LP player...

[truecrypt]

@Louhk1

No, I don't digitally clean or enhance sound files in any way... With old recordings it's always kind of dangerous to mess with editing. I'm not even sure this recording was published on LP... AFAIK only 1st movement was released. This one was not well known. In any case don't through away your old LP player! ;)

[Louhk1]

@truecrypt Well, if this recording has been made in the Scriabin museum, with Sofronitsky playing the second sonata, I can assure you it has been published on LP, as I own it (reference is: Melodiya D 019639-40), and there are the two movements on it, with a recording of the sixth sonata, preludes and poems. So that means the Sofronitsky recordings you upload come from CDs? Do you know if they are still available? I can't find them anywhere ( be then even more thanked for uploading them!).

[marginallymental]

Sofronitsky seemed to play most like Scriabin himself, but I'd trust my heart and ear to Richter's Scriabin any day.

[rrduran05]

Me gusta mucho la interpretaciòn de Sofronitsky. Fue sin duda, un gran interprete de Scriabin.

[annakoun]

Thank you for this music. I research on Scriabin 2nd sonata and I couldn't trace this recording, Is there info about exact date, circumstances of the recording(instrument, rec. engineer, etc.)?

[truecrypt]

You may try search Google for "Sofronitsky discography" - it's a good starting point...

[LeonFleisherFan]

How Sofronitsky makes the second movement sound even more hectic, yet at the same time more melodic than Richter, is truly baffling (referring to Richter's 1972 Prague reference version). The same notes, after all. Of course I like Richter's more "ghostly" rendering, but doesn't Sofronitsky stick more accurately to the indications here (the ending in particular)? Wow! Both performances are so great, but Sofronitsky's, as so often, makes even greater sense to me. Sound quality and tuning, well...

[tripetarnaud]

The left hand and the harmonies, that' s...richess..

[pkarkivist]

although sound quality, it's played on scriabin's piano...

[Starwalker6978]

Thanks for sharing also this 2nd. mvt. of my favourite sonata with us, I waited for this a long time! Superb!!! We must treasure Sofronitsy along with Feinberg and Goldenweiser as we treasure Horowitz, Richter, Gilels and Askenazy for their Scriabin, but my feeling is that Scriabin (greatest among all geniuses) himself is still not treasured enough! Perhaps it needs a new humanity, a less materialistic one cleared of infatuating traditional thought.

[mishima1974]

I agree with you, starwalker.

A great movie could be made about Him.

The soundtrack is already finished.

It could win oscars.

[incasmaya]

fantastic! thanks