Scriabin: Etude, Op. 42 No. 5 [Horowitz]

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Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 42 No. 5 is an etude for piano composed by Alexander Scriabin in 1903 and published in 1904. During this period, Scriabin's music becomes more chromatic and dissonant, yet still mostly adhering to traditional functional tonality. As dominant chords are more and more extended, they gradually lose their tensive function. Scriabin wanted his music to have a radiant, shining feeling to it, and achieved this by raising the number of chord tones. During this time, complex forms like the mystic chord are hinted at, but still show their roots as Chopinesque harmony.
It's extremely beautiful, mysterious and dark etude, also very challenging.

Sergei Rachmaninoff, a Russian pianist and composer who was Scriabin's classmate in Nikolai Zverev's class, gave concerts in the honor of Scriabin after his death, thus enriching his "Scrabinian" repertoire. Hence, when Rachmaninoff was working on this etude, he called it "a difficult study!; it took him an hour to learn it".

Sources: Harold C. Schonberg: "The Great Pianists", wikipedia.org

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