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 ...

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 ...

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In this episode of DW Festival Concert, all the music is somehow tied to Prometheus, be they pieces by Beethoven, Liszt, or Alexander Scriabin's "Poem of fire." A rebel and a trickster, the Greek ...

The first collaboration between Cartier’s nose Mathilde Laurent, the San Francisco Symphony Music Director, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, came to fruition this weekend (1-3 March ...

The mercurial world of gods, demigods, and myth take center stage once again as Jean-Yves Thibaudet joins Esa-Pekka Salonen and the SF Symphony for Alexander Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, a ...

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Stravinsky, Scriabin and Prokofiev are the only Russians who figure in Pierre Boulez’s selective repertoire. What came through strongly in our principal guest conductor’s performances of their music ...

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 ...

On Thursday night as part of a Music for the Senses festival, Andris Nelsons led works inspired by Mark Rothko and by an early-20th-century vision of color matched with sound One paradoxical aspect of ...