Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30 [Ashkenazy]

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The Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-sharp major, Op. 30, was written by Alexander Scriabin around 1903 and first published in 1904. It consists of two movements, Andante and Prestissimo volando, and is one of Scriabin's shortest piano sonatas. The sonata is generally considered to be the beginning of Scriabin's middle period due to the newly mystical sonorities and tonal ambiguity of the first movement. It remains one of the most performed of Scriabin's sonatas.
The sonata is written in a post-Romantic style, similar to Scriabin's other works of the time, and the mood could be described as erotic. The first movement, expressive and calm, is monothematic (based on a single theme). The second movement, celebratory and climactic, starts attacca right after the Andante movement.
A more Romantic idea is the use of cyclic form in restating the Andante’s main theme (dolcissimo) as the ecstatic climax of the Prestissimo volando movement (Focosamente, giubiloso). This outlay appears closely related to the last two movements from the 3rd sonata, also linked by an attacca, where the climax of the finale likewise restates the lyrical Andante theme of the third movement. Russian composers such as Tchaikovsky or Rachmaninoff often restated the lyric theme of the finale movement as climactic coda (for example in the piano concertos). Scriabin instead returns to the 'slow' movement’s theme, and this may have led to further experiments with a condensation of form in the single-movement 5th sonata where the climax (estatico) is again a restatement of the Languido theme (dolcissimo).
Scriabin wrote a poem after composing this sonata that explains its meaning:
In a light mist, transparent vapor
Lost afar and yet distinct
A star gleams softly.
How beautiful! The bluish mystery
Of her glow
Beckons me, cradles me.
O bring me to thee, far distant star!
Bathe me in trembling rays
Sweet light!
Sharp desire, voluptuous and crazed yet sweet
Endlessly with no other goal than longing
I would desire
But no! I vault in joyous leap
Freely I take wing.
Mad dance, godlike play!
Intoxicating, shining one!
It is toward thee, adored star
My flight guides me.
Mad dance, godlike play!
Intoxicating, shining one!
Toward thee, created freely for me
To serve the end
My flight of liberation!
In this play
Sheer caprice
In moments I forget thee
In the maelstrom that carries me
I veer from they glimmering rays.
In the intensity of desire
Thou fadest
O distant goal.
But ever thou shinest
As I forever desire thee!
Thou expandest, Star!
Now thou art a Sun
Flamboyant Sun! Sun of Triumph!
Approaching thee by my desire for thee
I lave myself in they changing waves
O joyous god.
I swallow thee
Sea of light.
My self-of-light
I engulf thee!
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[@Dylonely42]

0:02 I. Andante
3:09 II. Prestissimo volando

[@piedra4165]

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[@Dylonely42]

@@piedra4165 Heheheha

[@yeetthebeet]

not many people seemed to agree from what i can see but one of my favoritee scriabin pieces

[@loren8888]

I agree it is the perfect point at which his style was developed, before becoming overdeveloped into obsessive compulsion.

[@Ivan_1791]

​@@loren8888It was never overdeveloped, you just need to go with the flow of the 8th sonata.

[@loren8888]

@@Ivan_1791 What exactly does "Go with the flow" mean? I like all his late works. But they become predictable once you know how it boils down from theosophic mysticism. And it most *definitely* is an obsession. Again, I love all the later sonatas. But there is a human aspect that has disappeared since his chopinesque that cannot be compared.

[@Ivan_1791]

@@loren8888 Ah I see. Although I would never call it overdeveloped. And to me he doesn't really lose the human aspect, he just opens a new kind of human universe.

[@eel9]

who disagrees? it's like top 5 for sure

[@jacquesmeibergen]

This performance is the best,… impossible to do it better,…perhaps different but not better‼️

[@88KeysPiano]

Epic! one step closer to completing Scriabin sonatas 👀

[@yeetthebeet]

pog boy has my favorite recording but ashkenazy has some of the best scrib

[@BeMusical.]

In 0:30 there is a missing D# note, sorry!

[@loren8888]

We will never forgive you 👿

[@charlesthomas5956]

​@@loren8888Shut

[@richie6337]

My favorite Scriabin sonata ❤❤

[@richie6337]

My favorite part is 1:34~2:31

[@composerjalen]

One of my favourite Scriabin sonatas, nice upload bro

[@BeMusical.]

Thank you!

[@Ivan_1791]

Damn, now even the pedal.

[@adrianr.4535]

This is one of my favorite sonatas. Great job, master.

[@Scherzokinn]

AWESOME

[@sergiovigano456]

Amazing!

[@Palermo.340]

Beatiful!

[@pianissimo_yt]

epic!

[@BeMusical.]

Yours too!

[@ICanPickLocks]

Which one are you going to do next? Hopefully one of the late ones👀

[@BeMusical.]

I'm thinking about 7th or 6th👀

[@ICanPickLocks]

@@BeMusical. nice🤤

[@Scherzokinn]

2nd mvt 3:09

[@KPOMCATb]

2:30 this b flat :(