Scriabin - Vers la flamme, Op. 72

in wave after wave of opulently ambivalent harmony, Hough brings orientation and direction without sacrificing sensuality or mystical aura. He accomplishes this through an almost uncanny variety... — Gramophone Magazine, November 2015 More…

His mature affinity for Scriabin comes through in the way he contours phrases, sentences and paragraphs, and in his sensitive layering of complex textures…Where Kholodenko is least persuasive... — Gramophone Magazine, September 2018 More…

Ohlsson understands such obsessiveness as well as any pianist alive today, and what his performances occasionally lack in colour and variety they make up in effortless virtuosity and total musical... — The Guardian, 5th February 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

This is a fascinating sequence, as valuable for its musical comprehensiveness as for the opportunity it grants to hear just how differing tonal shades can alter the effect that this supreme colourist... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2022 More…

Ashkenazy’s chronological trawl overlaps significantly with Garrick Ohlsson’s survey of Scriabin’s Poèmes...but Ashkenazy’s approach is quite different – more reflective and sometimes indulgent,... — The Guardian, 5th March 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Mustonen emphasises the music's stylistic antecedents, rather than looking forward to the expressive ambivalence of Scriabin's later music...Whatever the technical demands involved, Mustonon... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

The Danish pianist takes a Chopinesque view of Scrabin’s Tenth Sonata; liquid passages are interrupted by extended trills – Piekut hits the sweet spot between technical accuracy and off-the-cuff... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Brighton-born, Moscow-trained Yuri Paterson-Olenich shows real understanding of Scriabin's visionary music, including one of the weirdest sonatas, the Seventh. What he lacks in sheer volume he... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2000 More…