Piano Sonata no. 2 Op.19 (also regarded as “Sonata-Fantasy”) took Scriabin no less than five years to compose. It was complete in 1897. This relatively short sonata has only two movements, Andante and Presto. Being an early work of the composer, it shows long melodic lines and a harmonic language which were very much inspired by Chopin’s compositions.
Scriabin himself wrote a description of the piece: “The first part evokes the calm of a night by the seashore in the South; in the development we hear a dark agitation of the depths. The section in E major represents the tender moonlight which comes after the darkness of the night. The second movement, presto, shows the stormy agitation of the vast expanse of ocean.”Notes by Tom Zalmanov
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Alexander Scriabin
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Piano Sonata no. 2 Op.19 (also regarded as “Sonata-Fantasy”) took Scriabin no less than five years to compose. It was complete in 1897. This relatively short sonata has only two movements, Andante and Presto. Being an early work of the composer, it shows long melodic lines and a harmonic language which were very much inspired by Chopin’s compositions.
Scriabin himself wrote a description of the piece: “The first part evokes the calm of a night by the seashore in the South; in the development we hear a dark agitation of the depths. The section in E major represents the tender moonlight which comes after the darkness of the night. The second movement, presto, shows the stormy agitation of the vast expanse of ocean.” Notes by Tom Zalmanov
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