Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas Elina Akselrud

• Alexander Scriabin (1872 - 1915): Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6:
• 1 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6: I. Allegro con fuoco 07:53
• 2 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6: II. Adagio 04:57
• 3 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6: III. Presto 03:24
• 4 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 6: IV. Funèbre 05:55
• Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 "Sonata-Fantasy":
• 5 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 "Sonata-Fantasy": I. Andante 07:13
• 6 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-Sharp Minor, Op. 19 "Sonata-Fantasy": II. Presto 03:59
• Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23:
• 7 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23: I. Drammatico 05:44
• 8 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23: II. Allegretto 02:28
• 9 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23: III. Andante 04:41
• 10 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23: IV. Presto con fuoco 05:45
• Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 30:
• 11 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 30: I. Andante 02:55
• 12 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4 in F-Sharp Major, Op. 30: II. Prestissimo volando 05:08
• Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53:
• 13 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 5, Op. 53 11:53
• Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62:
• 14 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62 13:08
• Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 "White Mass":
• 15 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 "White Mass" 12:29
• Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66:
• 16 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 8, Op. 66 15:25
• Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 "Black Mass":
• 17 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 9, Op. 68 "Black Mass" 08:41
• Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70:
• 18 Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70 15:14
• Total Runtime 02:16:52

Info for Scriabin: Complete Piano Sonatas

The ten piano sonatas by Alexander Scriabin take the listener on a profound journey through the development of one of the most enigmatic artistic personalities in music history. From his early Romantic influences to the mysticism and abstraction of his later years, these works epitomise Scriabin's transformation from passionate composer to visionary who strove to transcend music itself.

Elina Akselrud, piano

Elina Akselrud
Ukrainian-American pianist, fine art photographer, and artist researcher Elina Akselrud is the artistic director of her multidisciplinary team Intertwining Arts, as well as the lead artist of all its crossover projects.

he main focus of her work has been expanding the concept of a piano solo recital by collaborating with artists from other genres and simultaneously blending music with theater, photography/video projection, live painting projection, dance, lighting art, and 3D projection on stage. Each project is an artistic research embodying either a historical, philosophical, or a sociological message. Elina and her Intertwining Arts Team created and premiered “Chopin: A Letter through the Parisian Years” (2016-2018), “The Scriabin Sonatas Reimagined, Part 1” (2018-2019), “Transience: Painting after Scriabin and Vine” (2019-2020), “Messiaen. A Birdsoul” (2020-2021),, “Vers le Mystère” (2022-2023), and “The Scriabin Sonatas Reimagined, Part 2” (2023-2024) with performances in France, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, and Austria including cinematic version releases of these works. The pianist also actively performs and records themed chamber music projects, including premieres of commissioned pieces.

Elina made her debut with an orchestra at the age of eight with Bortnyansky Concerto in D Major, while studying at Kyiv Special Music School with Irina Lipatova and Irina Barinova. She is a prize winner of international piano competitions, such as Chopin on Thousand Islands (USA, 2010, 1st Prize), Chopin in Hartford (USA, 2012 1st Prize), Midwest (USA, 2014, 2nd Prize), Chopin in Canberra (Australia, 2014, 3rd Prize), and others. Elina has performed in numerous countries in Europe, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. She appeared with orchestras, such as the Ukrainian National Orchestra (Haydn D Major), Ithaca Orchestra (Schumann), the Kaufman Center Orchestra (Beethoven No.2), NEC Symphony (Chopin No.1), and Lucerne Symphony (Beethoven No.3), among others.

Elina Akselrud received her education at Mannes School of Music in New York City, USA, with Irina Morozova (Bachelor of Music’12), New England Conservatory in Boston, USA, with Alexander Korsantia (Master of Music’14), Hochschule Luzern – Musik in Lucerne, Switzerland, with Konstantin Lifschitz (Master of Arts in Music, Major Solo Performance’18), and Scuola di Musica di Fiesole in Florence, Italy, with Eliso Virsaladze (Post-Graduate’18).

Elina Akselrud is currently working on her Doctoral Degree in Artistic Research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, Austria, where her project “Artistic Interpretation in a Crossdisciplinary Context – Late Piano Œuvre of Alexander Scriabin” has been supervised by Markus Schirmer and Deniz Peters, and where she holds a position of a research assistant. She has performed at the Scriabin Sonatas Marathons at the LacMus (Como) and Busoni (Bolzano) Festivals in Italy in 2022, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the composer, as wel as successfully presented her project at the Doctoral Forum ARTikulationen 2022 (Graz, Austria, Best Practice Award), Orpheus Doctoral Conference 2022 (Ghent, Belgium), and VIII Art or Research Conference 2023 (Espoo, Finland). In 2024 Elina assisted her doctoral advisor Anna Gawboy in the production of a lighted performance of Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus”, Op.60 with Boston Symphony Orchestra, simultaneously conducting her own research on interdisciplinary artistic productions. Elina’s recent publication “The TIME, SPACE, and GESTURE in a crossdisciplinary context” has been issued by the Finnish Journal RUUKKU — Studies in Artistic Research.

Elina Akselrud has been organizing, running, and managing her own artistic projects since 2014. She is the founder and artistic director of a multidisciplinary organization Intertwining Arts, which has premiered, performed, and presented cinematic versions of four full-scope multidisciplinary productions in France, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria. Each project consists of several professionals from various artistic media collaborating together in order to create and perform a unique multidisciplinary work. For various projects Intertwining Arts included team members from the United States, Australia, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, Poland, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Romania, Italy, Slovenia, and the U.K. In each project Elina Akselrud is personally responsible for the project concept, piano performance, administration, fundraising, grant writing, management, logistics, seeking/securing collaborations, poster design, photography/visuals (partially), text writing (partially), and promo/marketing (partially).

In parallel Elina also organizes thematic chamber music projects, in which she collaborates with musicians from Switzerland, Germany, France, Slovenia, Austria, and the United States since 2018. In 2022 she has organized the festival of music and artistic research SONify! together with the festival team – among her responsibilities were grant writing, team coordination, graphic design, photography, and social media management.

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