Scriabin plays Scriabin ~ Sonata Fantasie ~ Hupfeld Phonola recording 1908

Heard for the first time here is the recording by Scriabin himself of his Sonata Fantasie . Recorded for the Hupfeld company in 1908 on piano rolls, these are now ’re-performed’ by me on a Hupfeld is the same make of piano on which Scriabin made his recording in the Hupfeld studio at Leipzig in 1908. Scriabin’s performance of this Sonata accords with contemporary descriptions of the intense and nervous manner of his performance and the sound he produced. Certainly the manner of his r