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 ...

Bay Area classical audiences no doubt have fresh in their minds the performances Garrick Ohlsson gave just last October of Rachmaninoff’s famously challenging Piano Concerto No. 3, with the San ...

In 1939, composer Virgil Thomson brought attention to a growing problem in classical music. Despite a dire need for the presentation of new works, orchestras around the globe clung desperately to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Among record collectors there are desert-island discs –the handful of discs you’d take to said isolated island– and dream discs –recordings that would have gone to the top of the charts if only the ...

The Divine Poem is the Esoteric Pick of the Week. Written by Alexander Scriabin, The Divine Poem is his third symphony. Scriabin was best known for his piano compositions and was one of the most ...

When Alexander Scriabin died in 1915, nobody could have been more surprised than he was. Mere death was not part of his life plan. During his last decade he had been envisaging something far more ...

In March of 1915, a crowd of fashionable patrons gathered for the New York premiere of Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire. The Russian-born Scriabin had composed the piece by means of ...