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Scriabin Piano Sonatas played with authority and passion!

Tina Leone | Branford, CT | 04/26/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It is so difficult to get the Scriabin Piano Sonatas to sound like the great music they are, that even some otherwise excellent pianists fail in the attempt. The music can so easily disintegrate into stretches of notes that seem to be going nowhere. Matthew Bengtson is one of the few pianists I have ever heard who makes these Sonatas totally viable. His performances are completely musical and are organized for maximum pianistic effect. Most of the recordings currently available fail to convince in one way or another. One would have to go back to some of the great Scriabin interpreters of the past (some of these never transferred to CD) to find performances as uniquely mesmerizing as Bengtson's"