Etude Op. 42 No. 5 by Alexander Scriabin
23 April 2007 (#92)
Year: 1903Length: 3:34
Atonal? Occassionally tonal? This piece (and all of Scriabin's etudes and poèmes) just has this rich quality that most pieces don't have. Scriabin's synesthesia just comes out in this piece--if you listen close enough, you can hear him painting this masterpiece, and when the melody appears, the foreground slowly appears with bright crisp colors, emerging above the homogeneous base like a bird flying into the sky from a turbulent ocean.
