Scriabin: Preludes/Anthony Hewitt CD review – faithful guide to a musical journey

(Champs Hill, two CDs)Last year’s Scriabin anniversary – the centenary of his birth – produced some significant new recordings of a number of his piano works, especially Varduhi Yeritsyan’s cycle of the sonatas and Garrick Ohlsson’s collection of the Poèmes. But Scriabin’s huge number of preludes, 90 miniatures grouped into sets of various sizes, have not been so lucky, and the most easily accessible survey of them is still Piers Lane’s, which ...

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