We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...

When Yale’s undergraduate concert orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, performs Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” on February 13, it will be the first full-production of this ...

I recently posted a piece on Chopin and Baden Powell and how musically (I mean in terms of feeling, psychic and sonic imagery) they can be connected. [audio:http ...

Varduhi Yeritsyan’s performance deserves mention alongside the great recordings of Scriabin’s piano works The centenary of the death of Alexander Scriabin this year has not generated anything like the ...

Russian composer Alexander Scriabin wanted his music to bring about the apocalypse. As Valery Gergiev and the LSO start a cycle of his symphonies, here's a selection of his scores that might well come ...

The reputation of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin, who died of septicemia in 1915 at age 43, has undergone seismic shifts during the past century. Early success was based on his irresistible ...

In 1986, before his final concert in Moscow, legendary virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz was asked his opinion of two composers whose music he had played all his life. He lavished his highest praise on ...

I love composer anniversaries because they afford us opportunities to look at musicians anew, and 2015 will mark the centenary of the death of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. It's quite possible ...

It always seems slightly macabre that we should make such a song and dance about a composer’s demise. But 2015 marks the centenary of Scriabin’s death, and, since the catalogue is by no means as ...

We’ve been warned. This is no year to trick or treat, given that said treat could well be followed by a deadly trick. A normal Halloween becomes an invitation to a dance with death. However common a ...