Piano Sonata No. 6, Op. 62

The exposition opens with an unprecedented, uneasy chord and a dreamlike, mysterious mood. The second theme was the part Scriabin liked to play to friends. The development and then the recapitulation follow. Parts are written on three staves, and a chord also heard in Strauss's Elektra adds to the nightmarish colour. Near the end, colourful, languid writing gives way to a delirious dance into which terror surges, and the coda lets the dark forces loose.

1. 0:03Exposition
2. 2nd Theme