Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass'

Remarkably assured, beautifully shaped playing by Kreiling of Scriabin’s knotty, post-Romantic soundworld. Many highlights in this two-CD set, but the ‘Insect’ Tenth Sonata captivates. — BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Scriabin was an ambitious composer. A romantic alchemist, he saw his music as a transmuting agent. Through its influence pain would become happiness and hate become love, culminating in a phoenix-like... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

The Prelude and Nocturne for left hand alone features alluring phrasings and ravishing high-register tracery. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2022 More…

Brighton-born, Moscow-trained Yuri Paterson-Olenich shows real understanding of Scriabin's visionary music, including one of the weirdest sonatas, the Seventh. What he lacks in sheer volume... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2000 More…

This new recording…sets Korobeinikov’s gifts as a Scriabin interpreter in bold relief. Each of the Etudes and the Seventh Sonata emerges as a self-contained microcosm, so vividly portrayed that,... — International Record Review, October 2014 More…