Burning Petrol is an arrangement of the poème Vers la flamme, Op. 72 by Alexander Scriabin, composed in 1914, for an ensemble of Bohlen-Pierce instruments. The transcription, which was downright imperative due to peculiarities of Scriabin’s harmony, was not inconsequential, since the twelve-tone system and the Bohlen-Pierce scale used by Hajdu differ fundamentally. Therefore, while adapting as closely as possible to the Bohlen-Pierce harmony, importance was attached to the coherent and consistent translation of the melodic gestalts. Nevertheless, it is reasonable to assume that Scriabin (at least in large parts of the composition) intuitively developed a musical language based on over-tone ratios, for which the Bohlen-Pierce scale may be the more suitable approximation.
In Scriabin’s late works, Vers la flamme stands out as the piece that overcomes the stasis of other compositions, especially the last two sonatas, and with a remarkable economy of means achieves a straightforward crescendo, which Scriabin himself is said to have described as a transformation “from dense fog to glaring light.”
See also (in German): http://georghajdu.de/wp-content/uploads/Hajdu-Die-Transkription-des-Po%C3%A8me-Vers-la-flamme-formatiert.pdf