It will overturn your fixed image of Prometheus,

revealing the totally new world of Scriabin!

While Scriabin's early romantic works are very popular, it could be said that people are not such big fans of Prometheus, masterpiece of his late period works. This CD is for such people as well. It will overturn common fixed knowledge of Prometheus = occult, revealing the totally new sound image of Prometheus performed by 7 pianos.  

“I feel as if I listened to ‘time bewitched by music and pulsation of marking the passage of time.’ The darkness hidden in Scriabin’s inner world makes its appearance explicitly. His internal struggle she depicts resonates so vividly and emotionally with me that it makes me feel as if it were happening in real time. It’s the phenomenal arrangement. Needless to say, Okashiro’s rich sonority which her strong touch and pure tone color create, and herlarge scale performance giving thought to overall structure, are sharpest than ever, as those astonished us in her previous transcription CDs, ‘Pathètique’ and ‘Titan.’ 

---Takuo Ikeda, critic, from liner notes

"What Chitose Okashiro has done here - is miracle! This 'Prometheus' lifts you out of your seat and propels you into the cosmos of Scriabin's great vision"                                               

--- David N. Lewis, from liner notes

“The sensational ‘arrangement’…..Her performance far exceeded my expectation, and her world was far beyond my imagination…..I was astounded at the sensation I was thrown into by her performance as if I had been blown away in time and space with past and future stirred up…..the concept of ‘arrangement’ is expanded to the utmost limit, that is to say, this is ’re-creation by means of becoming completely Scriabin’…..her arrangement creates sound space orchestra could not portray. Sound of orchestra is perfectly sublimated into clear and deep tincture of piano, she rebuilds sound world ‘which should have been there’ (in orchestra version), and unfolds spectacular music with rich color tone. It is staggeringly beautiful.”

---Takehiro Yamano, Art of Records magazine, Japan

“…..(her performance) clarifies overall structure explicitly, which was ambiguous in original orchestra version. Even more astonishingly, monotonous piano sound creates far more various colorful tone than orchestra does. I’d say it’s miraculous to perceive how delicate color tone and subtle shade are exquisitely delineated, how sound is overlapped each other, blended in each other, and sometimes accompanied each other, which were difficult to emerge in orchestra version. It goes without saying that arrangement and performance of this album are extraordinary, but also I’d like to emphasize brilliance of her liner note…..her writing is completely on a different level compared to all writings about Scriabin and ‘Prometheus’ probably ever existed so far. I’d say a new era of new reception of Scriabin begins right here.

---Yoshio Maejima, critic

“….a startling disc has been released...it’s beyond listener’s expectations, her tone is extremely colorful and sometimes meltingly voluptuous. Her performance has totally different charms from orchestra version. It’s superbly dramatic, filled with great conviction in every moment. ‘Two Poems’ Op.69 with mystic chords, is also exceedingly beautiful..... a splendid album”

---Tsutomu Nasuda, Art of Records magazine, Japan