Modernist Moments - St Petersburg

Published: Jan. 9, 2014, 9:14 p.m.

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Tom Service uncovers a world of startling sounds and heightened feeling in Alexander Scriabin\\u2019s final composition, the Five Preludes Op.74. Written in 1914 in St Petersburg, months before Scriabin died, here is music riddled with the ambiguities of the time.

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