Today’s Video of the Day is a performance of the second movement of Scriabin’s Sonata No.4 in F Major. The video was recorded at the Västerås Konserthus, Sweden last summer. The recording can be found ...

You can divide Scriabin’s career into two halves. Before about 1900 he was a latter-day Russian Chopin, writing the sort of piano pieces that Chopin might have written had he lived longer; after that, ...