Towards 'The Mystery'

An evening of music and words to mark the centenary of the death of Alexander Skryabin by Simon Nicholls.

Simon Nicholls is a pianist and teacher, now working at Birmingham Conservatoire, who has made a study of Skryabin involving many visits to Russia in order to read the original sources and to discuss the music with Russian experts. He will be reading from letters and private notebooks of Skryabin, discussing some origins of Skryabin’s thought, and playing selections of the music, starting with works from early youth and ending with fragments from the sketches for the ‘Preliminary Action’ and a sequence of the late pieces associated with it.