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 ...

No one was expecting rings of perfumed smoke to billow through Davies Hall at the San Francisco Symphony’s performance of “Prometheus”. In tandem with perfumers Mathilde Laurent and pianist Jean Yves ...

The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Music Director JoAnn Falletta announced Tuesday that they have been nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of Best Orchestral Performance. The nomination ...

Pianist Kirill Gerstein plays a set of four pieces from the Etudes, Op. 8 by Alexander Scriabin. We feature No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, and No. 7. Gerstein follows the Scriabin with pianist Earl Wild's ...

In London today, a remarkable collection of music manuscripts is being auctioned at Sotheby's. It's the collection of Paul Wittgenstein, the Viennese pianist who's responsible for a good deal of the ...

Alexander Scriabin's symphonic poem Prometheus, The Poem of Fire celebrates synesthesia and cosmic unity. Devised by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, pianist Jean-Yves ...