Word: scriabine
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...Works of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff; Martha Anna Verbit, Plano, Dunster Library...
...Works by Scriabin, Szymanowski, Ranchmaninoff, Western, Berg, and Liszt; Vivian Taylor, pianist; Eliot Library, 8:30; free...
Schumann's Kinderscenen found Horowitz in a rare introspective mood, capable of colors ranging from petal pastels to autumnal browns and beiges. Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5 was a vehicle for him to demonstrate that whereas other pianists concern themselves with degrees of loudness, he seems to be capable of a thousand variations in softness. Horowitz, perhaps our foremost Scriabin interpreter, learned this work last summer, and his performance could be faulted only for a certain underplaying of the ecstatic concluding pages...
...break does purify," he says. It also starts rumormongers talking, as Horowitz is well aware. "People think that if an artist like me chooses not to play, then he must be locked up somewhere in a mental home. I am not crazy; otherwise I could not have learned the Scriabin Fifth this summer." He need not have bothered defending himself, but he does have a point there. ∙ William Bender
Elizabeth Artman-Hagenah, planist, in recital. Works of Scriabin, Liszt, Debussy. Free. Friday...