Scriabin: Piano Sonatas Nos 1-10 | CD review

Anatol Ugorski(Cavi-Music, two CDs)Anatol Ugorski's international career was launched suddenly and belatedly in 1992, at the age of 50, when he and his family emigrated from St Petersburg to Germany. He began to make discs for Deutsche Grammophon and to appear with the world's leading orchestras, rapidly acquiring a reputation for eccentricity – his recording of Beethoven's Sonata Op 111, for instance, lasts 40 minutes. Then just as abruptly Ugorski retired from concerts and recording, devotin...

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