Fire and the End
Donald Macleod ends his week of programmes about Alexander Scriabin with an exploration of synaesthesia, and performances of Prometheus: Poem of Fire and the composer's final piano works.
Donald Macleod ends his week of programmes about Alexander Scriabin with an exploration of synaesthesia, and performances of Prometheus: Poem of Fire and the composer's final piano works, the Op 74 Preludes and his Tenth Sonata. He also visits Scriabin's Moscow flat and describes the composer's plans for his incomplete magnum opus Mysterium.
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- Fri 1 Jun 2007 12:00大象传媒 Radio 3
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