There’s something disarmingly sincere about Scriabin’s early music; wildly unfashionable melodies clad in blowsy musical lack-of-structures (I don’t buy the swollen Sonata Form analysis of the First ...

It was a truly democratic occasion: absolutely free, no seats, no special places for guests and press. Arriving just in time from inspecting Chagall windows in a Kent country church, I only just got ...