Gustav Piekut - Alexander Scriabin/Rued Langaard: Towards the Flame - Eccentric Piano Works

Both Scriabin and Langgaard believed that through their music they could pave the way for a spiritual revolution. The piano offered a perfect and very intimate medium for their highly personal harmonic and expressive vocabularies. Scriabin drew on daemonic associations in his Piano Sonata No. 9 to liberate the old tonal system, whereas Langgaard explored his youthful fascination with Catholicism in music of fanaticism and ecstasy. Langgaard�s The Flame Chambers and Scriabin�s Vers la flamme are feverish