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 ...

Vasily Petrenko conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme which opens in the half lit world of Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead and ends in the blazing light of Scriabin's Divine Poem ...

Scriabin was one of music’s most extravagant visionaries, whose personal adaptation of Madame Helena Blavatsky’s theosophical ideas became crucial to his thinking. His Third (1902-4) and Fourth ...

Scriabin’s enigmatic sonatas connect Romanticism and modernity, and Maltempo is in his element, if cool at times Since his outstanding series of recordings devoted to the music of Alkan, pianist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You can divide Scriabin’s career into two halves. Before about 1900 he was a latter-day Russian Chopin, writing the sort of piano pieces that Chopin might have written had he lived longer; after that, ...

It was a cold and wet afternoon as I strolled down forlorn Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. A countercultural thoroughfare in the late 1960s, the street retained next to nothing of its once colorful ...

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 ...