Episodes
| Series | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Beginnings | 20070528 | Donald Macleod follows the young Scriabin from a cossetted upbringing by '2 grandmothers and an aunt', via the Cadet Corps, to studenthood at the Moscow Conservatoire, where overpractising damaged his right hand. After graduating, he became a protegee of the great patron of Russian music, Mitrofan Beliaev. Donald Macleod uncovers the early years of Alexander Scriabin. |
| 2007 | Ecstasy And Mass | 20070531 | Donald Macleod explores the composer's obsessions with hair and cleanliness. |
| 2007 | Fire And The End | 20070601 | Donald Macleod ends his week of programmes about Alexander Scriabin with an exploration of synaesthesia, and performances of Prometheus: Poem of Fire and the composer's final piano works, the Op 74 Preludes and his Tenth Sonata. He also visits Scriabin's Moscow flat and describes the composer's plans for his incomplete magnum opus Mysterium. Donald Macleod ends his programmes about Scriabin with an exploration of synaesthesia. |
| 2007 | Love And Belaiev | 20070529 | Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the life and work of Alexander Scriabin through his piano sonatas, recounting the story of the composer's often tempestuous relationship with his patron Mitrofan Belaiev, and his equally tortuous relationship with women, many of whom were teenagers. The music in this programme includes Scriabin's only song, and his only Piano Concerto. |
| 2007 | Miniaturist And Symphonist | 20070530 | Exploring Scriabin's personal philosophy that prompted him once to exclaim 'I am God!'. |