This handsome compilation features major works by distinguished Russian
composers Alexander Scriabin and Anton Rubinstein in a single full-score
edition drawn from authoritative sources.
In the mid-nineteenth century, the development of the Russian piano concerto
was left largely to Rubinstein. Of his five surviving concertos, the Fourth
emerged as a powerful vehicle for both virtuoso soloist and orchestra in an
arresting work that has remained in the concert repertoire since its first
appearance. In fact, so great was its impact on the Russian scene that
Tchaikovsky's immortal First Piano Concerto---composed a decade later---carries its strong influence in every movement.
Rubinstein's Fourth was a product of his mature years, but Scriabin's Concerto,Op. 20--composed three decades later--was a youthful work, reminiscent ofthe composer's early idol, Frederic Chopin, and highlighted by the same sort ofinventive, glittering passagework. Scriabin's piece created a uniquely new
chamber-music collaboration between piano and ensemble, filling the work with a sense of free spontaneity--even improvisation--masking a firm control of structural organization unusual in a young composer. |
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