Four seasons, Walter Crane (1905)

The last set of four pieces in Scriabin’s oeuvre, presented as four contrasting miniatures:

No.1 : Prelude in Eb major No.2 : Ironies in C major No.3 : Nuances No.4 : Etude

The first piece is full of bitter harmonies, opening with a chord composed of a tritone and a diminished ninth (the two most dissonant intervals in tonal music). Despite its brutal opening, it quietly resolves into a serene major tonality, as if light emerges within the dissonance.

The second is a playful and dry miniature, its irony recalling the humor of Debussy.

The third is perhaps the most introspective : post-Chopinesque in its refinement, with luminous chords delicately floating above a flowing left-hand line.

The final piece boldly mocks the genre of the overwrought etude by compressing its essence into a mere 25 seconds!

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