Celebrating his 150th anniversary this year is the Russian composer, poet and visionary Alexander Scriabin who, in his short life undertook a compositional journey that took him from a frustrated piano virtuoso who idolised Chopin to a radical modernist who prophesised that a concert of his mystical music in Tibet would bring about the end of the world.
Helping me explore the life and work of this unique figure I'm delighted to be rejoined on the show by Cambridge Russian music Professor Marina Frolova-Walker.
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The music played in this episode...
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Scriabin: Symphony No. 1 in E Major, Op. 26 & The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54
Larisa Avdeyeva, Anton Grigoriev, Lev Volodin, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yurlov Russian Choir, Evgeny Svetlanov
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Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, Op. 20, etc.
Anatol Ugorski (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
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