Tag: Lento from Sonata No. 1 in D minor  Op. 28

Alexander Scriabin Valse  Op. 38 It is easy to see why Alexander Scriabin was known as “the Russian Chopin.”  Like his Polish musical forebear he wrote almost exclusively for the piano and began his career by composing mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, preludes and études. In this Valse we catch the composer near the end of his…