"No composer has had more scorn heaped on him or greater love bestowed." That's how The Great Soviet Encyclopedia describes the legacy of Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. In his biography of ...

San Francisco piano virtuoso Garrick Ohlsson is proud to take on Alexander Scriabin, a composer who believed he was the messiah, yet couldn’t save his own brilliant music from obscurity. Ohlsson – who ...

Hear two brilliant musicians with famously idiosyncratic personalities come together today at 2:00pm. Pianist Glenn Gould and composer Alexander Scriabin. Gould was known to hum and sing while he ...

The young Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko's new album offers a chronological tour through Russian composer Alexander Scriabin's piano works. The sequence has instructive value, while the ...

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The name of Alexander Scriabin should appear more frequently on programs. His solo piano music turns up on recitals with some freqeuncy, I know, but his symphonically inclined works haven’t received ...