Nikolai Roslavets - Piano Sonata No. 1

- Composer: Nikolai Andreevich Roslavets (4 January 1881 -- 23 August 1944) - Performer: Irina Emeliantseva - Year of recording: 2008 Piano Sonata No. 1, written in 1914. Roslavets’ musical thought and his efforts to “express my inner self, which dreamt of new worlds of sound never heard before”, basically date back to the 1910s, which were influenced by Scriabin and the symphonic poem. At that time, this gifted offspring of peasant stock (Roslavets began by teaching himself the violin) was completing his