Scriabin: Towards the Flame
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Channel: New England Conservatory · 2015 · Music
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the death of composer Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915). Scriabin's music is heard today primarily at the keyboard—his ten piano sonatas and hundreds of preludes, etudes, and "poems," many of them bearing titles, are numerically the bulk of his output. Because of the size of this body of work, it closely tracks the evolution of a musical language. Scriabin's earliest works display Chopin's influence in their romantic melodies. Late works anticipate the twelve-tone revolution soon to come—but with a basis in mysticism rather than mathematics. In a series of six concerts in Williams Hall, NEC piano students will perform Scriabin's entire output for solo piano, in chronological order. An additional concert in Jordan Hall on January 29 will present another opportunity to hear all 10 piano sonatas, back-to-back. For more information: http://necmusic.edu/scriabin
