Scriabin - Complete Piano Sonatas

The Guardian 80

Vincenzo Maltempo
(Piano Classics, two CDs)
Scriabin’s enigmatic sonatas connect Romanticism and modernity, and Maltempo is in his element, if cool at times

Since his outstanding series of recordings devoted to the music of Alkan, pianist Vincenzo Maltempo has gone on to show that he has much more to offer outside that specialist niche, with impressive releases of music by Schumann and Liszt. Now he has moved forward half a century to Scriabin’s 10 sonatas, works that straddle the divide between Romanticism and modernism, and he proves to be a superb interpreter of these enigmatic pieces, too.