Vers la flamme: Yevgeny Sudbin With New Scriabin Album
In 2007, Yevgeny Sudbin released an album of music by Alexander Scriabin. British magazine Gramophone described it as a 'disc in a million'. Now, Yevgeny Sudbin has returned to the composer for his 25th recording for BIS, and offers a wide-ranging survey of music that includes two more of the piano sonatas.
"The outbreak of a musical volcano. We are following its lava. (...) Sudbin is a fantastic narrator of Scriabin's drama:" German national radio Deutschlandfunk with another enthusiastic review of Yevgeny Sudbin's latest Scriabin release "Vers la flamme" (on BIS Records). Listen to their detailed Album of the Week analysis here.
To speak about Scriabin and his new recording, Sudbin also sat down with James Jolly for his Gramophone Podcast. Listen here. And Yevgeny also spoke with Bavarian Radio’s BR Klassik about his special relationship with the composer, about synaesthetic association, his own upbringing between Russia and Germany, and the addictive power of Scriabin’s music. Read here (in German).
“Sudbin’s variety of approach is one of the things that makes this album special. Scriabin’s music can plumb the depths of darkness, but his synaesthesia engaged him in a vast range of colours.... ”