Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina plays Scriabin’s Waltz opus 38

Yelena Bekman-Shcherbina (1882-1951) plays Alexander Scriabin’s Waltz in A flat major, opus 38 Recorded live, around 1950 Biography of the pianist: She studied many of Scriabin’s works with the composer himself and heard him play many of his own works. In her autobiography ’My Reminiscences’ she writes about Scriabin’s style: “Scriabin’s performance was characterized by an amazing finesse on nuances. The notation could not convey all the shadings, caprici