It always seems slightly macabre that we should make such a song and dance about a composer’s demise. But 2015 marks the centenary of Scriabin’s death, and, since the catalogue is by no means as ...

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 ...

Alexander Scriabin and Nikolai Medtner, eight years his junior, both studied at the Moscow Conservatoire in the 1890s, where their fellow students included Rachmaninov; it’s Rachmaninov’s spirit, and ...

IT was surely an entirely unintended coincidence the Peter Oundjian’s successor as music director of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra Thomas Sondergard programmed a performance of Tchaikovsky’s ...

Prosegue al Polo culturale Le Clarisse la rassegna Scriabin Concert Series, dedicata alla grande tradizione del pianoforte e ai ...

Aiming to honor the great Russian pianist-composers he hopes to emulate, Daniil Trifonov channeled Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and Prokofiev in the Aspen Music Festival debut of his own piano concerto ...