It has taken a pandemic for me to love this composer

It has taken a pandemic for me to love this composer

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norman lebrecht

April 13, 2020

From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:

It has taken a global pandemic and lockdown for me to discover that the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin wrote a sheaf of mazurkas, which are Polish, and made them sound every bit as ethereal as Chopin at his most consumptive.

I had always held the view that Scriabin was best taken in small doses…

 

Read on here.

And here.

 

 

 

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