Lugansky - Scriabin Etudes, Op. 8, No. 2 . 4 . 10 . 11 . 12, Ivanovka

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) Etudes, Op. 8 (1894-1895) - No. 2, No. 4, No. 10, No. 11, No. 12 Nikolai Lugansky, 2019 Ivanovka, Estate of Rachmaninoff [0:00] #2 in F♯ minor. A capriccio, con forza [2:01] #4 in B major. Piacevole [3:43] #10 in D♭major. Allegro [5:41] #11 in B♭minor. Andante Cantabile [10:02] #12 in D♯ minor. Patetico “… I always find myself longing for Ivanovka. It was not one of the beauties of nature with mountains, precipices, or oceans. It’s a steppe, and a steppe is like a boundless sea with immense fields of wheat and oat in place of water, streching from horizon to horizon. One often boasts the air of sea, but if only one knows how much better is the air of steppe, with its aroma rising from the earth and everything that grows there, and without the rolling!… “