16 CON ELEGANZA His Impromptus are early compositions. What stage of his development do they represent? I liked the idea of treating his Impromptus as if they were a detail in an immense photograph of his entire creative output, a detail that was somewhat hidden but that would contain important revelations. They represent half an hour of music that certainly bears witness to the influence of Chopin, whom Scriabin revered, but above all to his attraction to the small form, his taste for refinement and the very special elegance of his music. He would later retain this manifestation of refinement, even in his darkest and most hallucinatory works. His Impromptus are sketches, poetic snapshots. They have that spontaneity, that freshness born of the eruption of his inspiration. Lighter and more intimate, they contrast with the density and narrative force of the Piano Sonata no.3 and the Fantasie. I remain astonished that they are so rarely performed today, let alone recorded. They are magnificent and shed indispensable light on a feature of the composer's personality. The place I wanted to give them at the heart of this album is my way of doing them justice.
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