Daria Vasileva: Recital & "Scriabin: Elements" Album Launch Party
About This Event
Pianist Daria Vasileva presents a recital and album launch, "Scriabin: Elements," at Groupmuse NYC. The program focuses on the music of Alexander Scriabin, tracing his shift from Chopin-influenced late-Romantic writing to a highly dissonant, color-coded harmonic language tied to his synesthetic and metaphysical ideas and his role in the Russian Silver Age.
About Scriabin: Elements
At Groupmuse NYC, pianist Daria Vasileva introduces *Scriabin: Elements* as both a recital and an album launch centered on the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. The program follows his stylistic turn from Chopin-shaped late Romantic piano writing toward a sharper, more dissonant harmonic world linked to his synesthesia and quasi-mystical theories of sound and color. In New York’s long Scriabin lineage—from early 20th-century advocacy to today’s salon-stage revivals—this set treats the piano as a laboratory, not a museum piece. One clear takeaway is how quickly Scriabin’s language outruns the expectations of “Romantic” repertoire.
About the Artist
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin is a Russian composer and pianist whose music charts a rapid turn from late-Romantic lyricism toward a dissonant harmonic vocabulary shaped by his synesthetic ideas about color and sound.