Track listing
24 tracks · 76:48Listen to samples on selected tracks.
Alexander Scriabin
- 10 Mazurkas, Op. 3 33:55
- 1 No. 1 in B minor (Tempo giusto) 4:05
- 2 No. 2 in F sharp minor (Allegretto non tanto) 2:08
- 3 No. 3 in G minor (Allegretto) 1:41
- 4 No. 4 in E major (Moderato) 3:53
- 5 No. 5 in D sharp minor (Doloroso) 4:18
- 6 No. 6 in C sharp minor (Scherzando) 2:05
- 7 No. 7 in E minor (Con passione) 3:43
- 8 No. 8 in B-flat minor (Con moto) 2:48
- 9 No. 9 in G sharp minor 2:48
- 10 No. 10 in E flat minor 6:26
- 9 Mazurkas, Op. 25 32:24
- 11 No. 1 in F minor (Allegro) 3:14
- 12 No. 2 in C major (Allegretto) 3:20
- 13 No. 3 in E minor (Lento) 2:17
- 14 No. 4 in E major (Vivo) 4:28
- 15 No. 5 in C sharp minor (Agitato) 4:04
- 16 No. 6 in F sharp major (Allegretto) 3:20
- 17 No. 7 in F sharp minor (Moderato) 5:27
- 18 No. 8 in B major (Allegretto) 2:29
- 19 No. 9 in E flat minor (Mesto) 3:45
- 2 Mazurkas, Op. 40 3:08
- 20 No. 1 in D flat major (Allegro) 1:48
- 21 No. 21 in F sharp major (Piacevole) 1:20
- 22 Mazurka in F major (1889) 3:12
- 23 Mazurka in B minor (1889) 2:20
- 24 Impromptu à la mazur in C major, Op. 2 No. 3 1:49
About this recording
This album marks Peter Jablonski’s debut for the Ondine label. Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915) created an impressive catalogue of works for the piano and became one of the great innovators in 20th century music. In his early works, the listener can sense the composer’s great admiration for the art of Frédéric Chopin. This is especially manifested in the over 20 Mazurkas that Scriabin wrote for the solo piano, the very same form of music that Chopin followed throughout his active years as a composer. Jablonski's album includes all Scriabin's Mazurkas with an opus number as well as two early Mazurkas.
Scriabin’s Mazurkas reveal various stages in the composer’s creative career. Ten Mazurkas Op. 3 are early pieces. Although the composer, like many of his colleagues, was deeply influenced by Chopin, yet Scriabin’s distinctive voice is unmistakable here. In the Nine Mazurkas Op. 25 the composer is starting to push harmonic and melodic invention to their extremes, delaying harmonic resolution, blurring the lines between the distinct lilt of the mazurka and often entering the realm of a dream waltz, or a tone poem. Two Mazurkas Op. 40 were written around the time of his 4th Piano Sonata and are more intimate and economic in style already pointing to completely new harmonic and philosophical directions that were to dominate Scriabin’s mind from then on. In his last ever public performance in St Petersburg on 2 April, 1915 Scriabin included his Mazurka Op. 25/4 into the programme.
Peter Jablonski is an internationally acclaimed Swedish pianist. Discovered by Claudio Abbado and Vladimir Ashkenazy and signed by Decca at the age of 17, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with over 150 of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, including the Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Mariinsky, La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung, to name a few. He has performed and recorded the complete piano concertos by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and Bartók, and all piano sonatas by Prokofiev. Hailed as an ‘unconventional virtuoso’, during his three-decade-long career he developed a diverse and worked with composers Witold Lutosławski and Arvo Pärt. Jablonski’s extensive discography includes several award-winning recordings.
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Peter Jablonski
Described by the Gramophone as 'a pianist in full flower of his mature, imaginative artistry' in 2022, Peter Jablonski is an award-winning internationally acclaimed Swedish artist. He is among the leading pianists of his generation, and during the last thirty years on international stages has performed with over 150 orchestras, given over 2000 concerts, and has been on 25 tours of Japan. Discovered by Abbado and Ashkenazy and signed by Decca in his seventeenth year, he went on to perform, collaborate, and record with many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors, which include the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kirov (now Mariinsky), La Scala Philharmonic, Tonhalle Zurich, Orchestre Nationale de France, NHK Tokyo, DSO Berlin, Warsaw Philharmonic, Philadelphia, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Andris Nelsons, Daniel Harding, Kurt Sanderling, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung.