Scriabin, Alexander / Janácek, Leos - Sonatas & Poems - Hough, Stephen (piano)
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Stephen Hough, piano
This recording brings together two Slavic eccentrics, both originals, both geniuses with high energy and powerful sexuality inspiring their lives and works-yet as musicians they are far apart. Janácek characteristically uses small cells that repeat, often obsessively, within a harmonic language which is always unsettled and uncomfortable. Scriabin's long, sensual lines, float along and sink inside a hot perfumed bath of harmony-comfort to excess. Janácek the vertical; Scriabin the horizontal.
I love the contrast between their styles and I find that playing these pieces next to each other highlights the beauty of each: uninterrupted Scriabin can become cloying, too much Janácek can become exhausting; but alternating them creates a wonderful patchwork, their contrasting voices so different but equally compelling, equally intense.