🇷🇺Alexander Scriabin ： 2 Dances “Flammes sombres” Op.73-2

With its sharp rhythmic drive and dense dissonances, this highly charged dance evokes the dark flames suggested by its title. Built around the repetition and transformation of short motives, it moves through constantly changing registers, dynamics, and layers of harmony, bringing intense surges of energy into contrast with moments of shadow. Its atonal sonorities are best appreciated not through a melody singing on its own, but through the movement of the individual voices and the shifting colors created by the pedal. In performance, clear fingerwork and careful pedal control are essential to prevent the complex sonorities from becoming blurred. Maintaining the rhythmic edge without exaggerating sudden dynamic changes or accents allows the piece to unfold as a single, burning current, bringing out its mysterious character and power.