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Alexander Scriabine

Alexander Scriabine has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 27 October 2013. Alexander Scriabine's music has been featured on 22 episodes.

Alexander Scriabin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин; 1872-1915) was a Russian composer and pianist.

Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano; the earliest pieces resemble Frédéric Chopin's piano works, and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude, and the mazurka. Later works, however, are strikingly original, employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The development of Scriabin's voice or style can be followed in his ten piano sonatas: the earliest are in a fairly conventional late-Romantic idiom and show the influence of Chopin and Franz Liszt, but the later ones move into new territory, the last five being written with no key signature. Many passages in them can be said to be atonal.

Scriabin has been often considered to have had synaesthesia, a condition wherein one experiences sensations in one sense in response to stimulus in another; it is most likely that he did not actually experience this, though. His thought-out system of relating musical notes to colours lines up with the circle of fifths. Prometheus: Poem of Fire includes a part for a 'clavier à lumières' (keyboard of lights), though this is not often featured in performances.

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Alexander Scriabine

Alexander Scriabine has been played over 20 times on NTS, first on 27 October 2013. Alexander Scriabine's music has been featured on 22 episodes.

Alexander Scriabin (Russian: Александр Николаевич Скрябин; 1872-1915) was a Russian composer and pianist.

Many of Scriabin's works are written for the piano; the earliest pieces resemble Frédéric Chopin's piano works, and include music in many forms that Chopin himself employed, such as the etude, the prelude, and the mazurka. Later works, however, are strikingly original, employing very unusual harmonies and textures. The development of Scriabin's voice or style can be followed in his ten piano sonatas: the earliest are in a fairly conventional late-Romantic idiom and show the influence of Chopin and Franz Liszt, but the later ones move into new territory, the last five being written with no key signature. Many passages in them can be said to be atonal.

Scriabin has been often considered to have had synaesthesia, a condition wherein one experiences sensations in one sense in response to stimulus in another; it is most likely that he did not actually experience this, though. His thought-out system of relating musical notes to colours lines up with the circle of fifths. Prometheus: Poem of Fire includes a part for a 'clavier à lumières' (keyboard of lights), though this is not often featured in performances.

Original source: Last.fm

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Prometheus
Claudio Abbado, Berliner Philharmoniker, Martha Argerich, Beethoven, Nono, Liszt, Scriabin
Sony Classical0
Prélude in D flat major, Op. 11 No. 15
Alexander Scriabine
Denon2003
2 Dance Op.73
Scriabin, Vladimir Sofronitsky
Vista Vera2002
Sonata No. 10
Idil Biret, Chopin, Prokofiev, Scriabin
Finnadar Records1977
Etudes
Horowitz, Scriabin
RCA Victor Gold Seal, BMG Classics0
Preludes
Horowitz, Scriabin
RCA Victor Gold Seal, BMG Classics0
Vers La Flamme, Op. 72
Horowitz, Scriabin
Columbia Masterworks1973
Mazurka In F Major, Op. Posth.
Scriabin, Michael Ponti
Vox Productions1974
From: Années De Pélerinage. Premiére Année. La Suisse
Nikita Magaloff, Mozart, Glinka, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Skrjabin
Ermitage1994
Etude In C-Sharp Minor, Op. 2, No. 1
Scriabin, Ruth Laredo
Connoisseur Society1971