Sämtliche Klaviersonaten II

Piano works were at the centre of Alexander Scriabin‘s compositional output. As an outstanding pianist, he began writing mainly miniatures for his instrument in the style of Romantic Piano pieces.

But it wasalso Scriabin who, unlike any other composer of his generation, contributed to the continuation of the sonata tradition. Particular milestones in his output were Sonatas nos. 4 and 5 of 1903 and 1907, in which we hearforms and harmonies not heard previously.

When these works are occasionally given the name ‘Poème’ Sonatas, this indicates that they stem from the time and allude to the compositional context ofScriabin‘sdaring Orchestral works ‘Le Divin Poème’ and ‘Le Poème de l´exstase’.

The editor Christoph Flamm is an expert in Russian music, particularly Piano music. His research, forexample, into Nikolai Medtner and the editions based on these findings are regarded as standard works. For his Bärenreiter edition of Scriabin‘s Sonata no. 5, Christoph Flamm has drawn on sources which wereuntil recently regarded as lost or could only be consulted with great difficulty.

Scriabin‘s Complete Piano Sonatas will be published in 4 volumes.

– Urtext edition based on the latestsource research.

– With facsimiles which also give information about the rediscovered sources.

– Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng) and critical commentary (Eng).