Work: Piano Sonata no. 5 in F sharp major, Op.53

Had the piece been much longer, pianist, instrument, audience and hall would surely have been consumed by some Pentecostal fire. Which is more or less what the composer had in mind.

Pounding the 26 miles from Greenwich Park to The Mall wasn't the only marathon in London today. At Milton Court, Peter Donohoe ran his own marathon, tackling all ten sonatas by Alexander Scriabin.

Garrick Ohlsson’s ‘Skryabin Focus’ at Wigmore Hall opened with a concert on the composer's birthday which revealed the complex and myriad aspects of Scriabin's creative impulse and his deep affinity for the piano