Table of Contents:
  • The music of Scriabin : then and now ; A 'daring genius' or 'dry' and 'unispired'? ; Scriabin's reproducing pianos : the Phonola and the Welte-Mignon
  • Scriabin's performing style ; Sources of the style ; Exploring the style : tempo flexibility, desynchronization of the parts, articulation, pedaling, rhythm and pitch modifications, the intangibles
  • Case studies I : the Welte rolls ; Etude op. 8 no. 12 ; Preludes op. 11 nos. 1, 2, 13 ; Prelude op. 22 no. 1 ; Poem op. 32 no. 1 ; Mazurka op. 40 no. 2 ; Désir (Desire), op. 57 no. 1
  • Case studies II : the Phonola rolls ; Feuillette d'album (Album leaf), op. 45 no. 1 ; Sonate-fantaisie, op. 19 ; Third sonata, op. 23
  • Some thoughts on Scriabin and romantic performing traditions ; From Beethoven to Granados ; Freedom as the recognition of necessity? ; Scriabin's notation and the age of literalism.