Jean-Marc Luisada - Sonates (Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin) (2004)

"I have waited a long time before recording Liszt's Sonata, which I believe to be more elaborate than Chopin's Sonata in B minor, which is for me one of the great romantic improvisations. With the Sonata of Scriabin, the three works are for me bound by the shadow of Richard Wagner. Tristan's leitmotives are found in the Largo of Chopin's Sonata in B minor and Wagner was inspired by that of Liszt, who is really the great sonata of the nineteenth century. It is the beginning of all the chromaticism that has burst the tone. As for the sonata of Scriabine, it is the implosion of the romantic sonata. In nine minutes is created an erotic climate, of terror, very exciting. The Wagnerian chromaticism is also sounded in it and in a few measures a leitmotiv of Tristan and Isolde. It is in a very fast passage, and I purposely slowed down these two measures so that we can hear it a little! Chopin's Tristesse then comes very well after Scriabin's Black Mass to fall back into a more directly romantic nostalgia. A record must be an auditory show, a journey. » (Jean-Marc Luisada, interview with Gérard Mannoni / altamusica.com) - October 2004)