11 Dec 2020, Fri
https://onlineradiofm.in/goa/panaji/fm-rainbow
Siesta Time 2.30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Western Classical Music
HIGHLIGHT
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Piano Sonata, Fantasy No. 2 in G Sharp Minor, Opus 19
Movements
Andante (8.41 mins.)
Presto (3.38 mins.)
Duration: 12 minutes
LISTEN: Primavera Shima (Paris, 2015)
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Scriabin was a Russian composer. The sonata is composed of two movements. It is impressionistic. It was inspired by the sea viewed by Scriabin on a trip to Latvia in 1892. Yet it was only completed after his honeymoon in Crimea on the shores of the Black sea with the pianist Vera Isacova in 1897. Scriabin described it thus: ‘The first part evokes the calm of a night by the seashore in the South; in the development we hear the somber agitation of the depths. The section in E major represents the tender moonlight which comes after the first dark of the night. The second movement, presto, shows the stormy agitation of the vast expanse of the ocean.’
Pic courtesy: gav(dot)cloud; Notes by Brian Mendonca
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