about how this is meant to be handled. Scoring The work is scored for the following instruments. Woodwinds 3 flutes piccolo 3 oboes English horn 3 clarinets bass clarinet 3 bassoons contrabassoon Brass 8 horns 5 trumpets 3 trombones tuba Percussion timpani glockenspiel tubular bells cymbals tam-tam triangle bass drum Keyboard clavier à lumières (ad lib) celesta piano solo organ Strings 2 harps violin I violin II violas cellos double basses Voice chorus (ad lib) Notable performances The premiere was conducted by Serge Koussevitzky in Moscow on 2 March 1911. On 21 March 1915 it was first performed with colored lighting, by the Russian Symphony Orchestra with Marguerite Volavy on piano, conducted by Modest Altschuler, at Carnegie Hall. Altschuler and Scriabin were contemporaries at the Moscow Conservatory in the early 1890s. Sir Henry Wood had plans to conduct Prometheus with the part for clavier à lumières, but World War I prevented the performance. The work was performed with colored lighting for the first time in England on 4 May 1972, by the London Symphony Orchestra under Elyakum Shapirra at the Royal Albert Hall. For a description of several other performances employing novel approaches to color realization in this work, see Hugh MacDonald, The Musical Times 124 (1983) pp. 600–602. In 2006, the Russian pianist Andrej Hoteev realized a project at Greater Hall of the Laeiszhalle Hamburg: as soloist accompanied by the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrey Boreyko he presented the authentic colour light score with Scriabin's intended clavier à lumières rediscovered by himself. In 2010, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, under the conductor Toshiyuki Shimada and in collaboration with the Yale Department of Music and doctoral candidate Anna Gawboy, performed the work with clavier à lumières and full hall lighting using directions from Scriabin's notes. Transcription Leonid Sabaneyev transcribed the symphonic poem for two pianos (four hands) in 1911. When he initially proposed this, Scriabin was of the opinion that at least eight hands would be necessary, and the composer was reportedly somewhat disconcerted when he realized that his piece could be reduced in this way. References External links American Symphony Orchestra – Concert notes Video documentary about the 2010 Shimada-Gawboy performance at Yale. complete audiovisual digital Realisation of the composition and the Clavier de lumiere Symphonies by Alexander Scriabin Compositions by Alexander Scriabin Visual music Music for orchestra and organ 1910 compositions