Completed in 1912 and published already that same year, these Three Etudes op. 65 are assigned to Scriabin’s final creative period. Tonally, they arguably number among the composer’s most original and visionary works. Marked by the intervals of the ninth, seventh and fifth as musical building blocks, they skirt the border to atonality – and in doing so sound not only modern and virtuoso, but also exceptionally colourful and at times downright sensual. Scriabin himself, it is reported, could not ...