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Austb\u00f8 interprets Skryabin<\/p>\n
Some 75 years after Skryabin\u00b4s death it is generally accepted that he was one of the important renewers of music at the outset of the previous century. Attempting to justify his attempts at creating a philosophical system through his music, Skryabin wrote several works steeped in mysticism, of which \u201cPrometheus, Op. 60\u201d is probably among the best known. His sonatas can therefore be seen as part of a pre-concept; the music should pave the way for a forthcoming transcendency.<\/p>\n
In fact, these sonatas don\u00b4t sound like any other music. They obey to their own rules, rules made by the composer himself. They seem to vacillate in space; their struggles, however violent, are not of this world, they belong to some cosmic realm (White and Black Mass). Of course, this is not achieved without special musical means; the music is liberated from tonality by the use of \u201cmystic chords\u201d that generate scales for all melodic material; the rhythmic texture is extremely flexible and tends to float across the bar-lines; the flighty motives combine into a translucent web of lines. Performed by the much celebrated pianist H\u00e5kon Austb\u00f8, Skryabin\u00b4s works evokes extreme states of mind, being uncommon even in late romanticism.<\/p>\n
This is the second album in a series of two, covering Skryabin\u00b4s Piano Sonatas. The first volume is also available from Simax Classics (PSC1055).<\/p>\n
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