Compact discs. Cds. 1-2 are newly remastered for this issue; cd. 3 is not.

Originally issued chiefly on RCA or Columbia 33 1/3 rpm discs; exceptions as noted in contents.

Program notes by Bernard Horowitz (no relation to the pianist) about the pianist & his advocacy of Scriabin, in English, French & German, with discograpical details, inserted in container.

Cd. 1 : RCA Victor studio recordings (tr. 1-22 rec. in his apartment in Jan. 1955, tr. 23 rec. in Town Hall on May 17, 1950; first issued on LM-2005 (tr. 1-20], LM-1957 (tr. 21-22), 49-3303-B (45 rpm) (tr. 23)). Sonata no 3 in F# minor (19:34)

Preludes. Op. 11, nos 1, 10, 9, 3, 16, 13, 14 ; Op. 15 no 2 ; Op. 16 no 1 ; Op. 13 no 6 ; Op. 16 no 4 ; Op. 27 no 1 ; Op. 51 no 2 ; Op. 48 no 3 ; Op. 67 no 1 ; Op. 59 no 2 ; Op. 11 no 5 ; Op. 22 no 1

Etude in C# minor, op. 2 no 1.

Cd. 2 : Columbia studio recordings (tr. 1-3 rec. Nov.-Dec. 1962, remainder in Apr.-May 1972 ; first issued on MS 6411 (tr. 1-3), M 31620 (tr. 4-14); tr. 15-16 unissued on lp, first issued in 1992 on Sony cd SK 48093). Poème op. 32 no 1 ; Etude Op. 2 no 1 ; Etude op. 8 no 12

Feuillet d'album op. 45 no 1 ; Etudes op. 8 nos 2, 11, 10 ; Etude op. 8 no 8 ; Etudes op. 42 nos 3, 4, 5 ; Poèmes op. 69. 1-2 ; Vers la flamme : poème, op. 72

Feuillet d'album op. 58 ; Etude op. 65 no 3.

Cd 3 : Live performances (except for Op. 8 no 12, which was first issued on a Sony cd in 2013, originally issued on Columbia M2S 728, M 31620, RCA ARL1-1766, LM 6014)). Carnegie Hall, May 9, 1965 : Sonata no 9, op. 68 : "Black mass" (9:19) ; Poème op. 32 no 1 (3:28) ; Etude op. 2 no 1 (3:10)

Carnegie Hall, Apr. 17, 1966 : Sonata no 10, op. 70 (13:14)

Ambassador College, Pasadena, Feb. 28-29, 1976 : Sonata no 5, op. 53 (12:31)

Carnegie Hall, Feb. 1, 1968 : Etude op. 8 no 12 (2:17)

Carnegie Hall, Feb. 25, 1953 : Etude op. 8 no 11 (3:28) ; Etude op. 42 no 5 (3:12) ; Sonata no 9, op. 68 (6:42).