I taught this many years to a student preparing for an audition for entry into a musical school. It is dark and intense, and it explores the total dynamic range of the piano, from as soft as you can play all the way up to as loud as possible. On a more personal note the darkness in this music for me is about depression.
Many people shy away from music like this.
Perhaps some people do not experience these dark feelings, though I rather doubt that. Perhaps others immediately recognize such feelings in the music and want to stay away from it because it’s too depressing and too painful. I certainly understand that because I avoid dark movies and dark books for the same reason. I can’t handle them.
For me very dark music is a release.
If I felt this dark all the time I would not be able to function. Life would be no fun and I probably would be in deep trouble. But I believe all of us feel this way at times, and perhaps there is comfort in knowing that we are not the only ones who experience these difficult times in life.
For pictures I went totally with black and white because for me during such dark periods all the color goes out of the world. The pictures of people I included perfectly express where I am mentally until I am able to break out of the dark periods, and if anyone identifies with the pictures and the music please leave a comment and mention that.
Scriabin is a composer I know nothing about beyond having often seen the name. I really like this piece and think I’d like to learn to play it because of the chords and harmonies.
This music is dark and mysterious, totally opposite of what I usually listen to. It is not at all what I expected to hear. Surprisingly, I did not find it to be unpleasant.