Gustav Piekut — Towards the Flame (2021)

FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 56:14 | 140 MbClassical, Instrumental

Both Scriabin and Langgaard believed that through their music they could pave the way for a spiritual revolution. The piano offered a perfect and very intimate medium for their highly personal harmonic and expressive vocabularies. Scriabin drew on daemonic associations in his Piano Sonata No. 9 to liberate the old tonal system, whereas Langgaard explored his youthful fascination with Catholicism in music of fanaticism and ecstasy. Langgaard\’s The Flame Chambers and Scriabin\’s Vers la flamme are feverish musical twins that exemplify both composers\’ explosive intensity.
01. 3 Pieces, Op. 45: No. 1, Feuillet d\’album
02. 3 Pieces, Op. 45: No. 2, Poème fantasque
03. 3 Pieces, Op. 45: No. 3, Prélude
04. Sponsa Christi tædium vitæ, BVN 297
05. Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 \»Insect\»
06. Afgrundsmusik, BVN 169: I. Inflessibile mostruoso
07. Afgrundsmusik, BVN 169: II. Frenetico, quasi rondo
08. Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 \»Black Mass\»
09. Flammekamrene, BVN 221
10. Vers la flamme, Op. 72