- published: 22 Jan 2014
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Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 3 in C Major Op. 43 "The Divine Poem" (1902)
Probably the most intense and over the top recording I have heard and in my opinion the be...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 3 in C Major Op. 43 "The Divine Poem" (1902)
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 3 in C Major Op. 43 "The Divine Poem" (1902)
Probably the most intense and over the top recording I have heard and in my opinion the best recording out there. Symphony No. 3 by Alexander Scriabin. Conducted by Igor Golovschin with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. I. Lento - 00:00 II. Luttes (Struggles) - 1:38 III. Voluptes (Delights) - 27:14 IV. Jeu Divin (Divine Play) - 41:00 "The only true romantic musician produced by Russia," in the words of his friend Boris de Schloezer in 1919, Scriabin, a contemporary of Rasputin, was a loner, emotionally, temperamentally and stylistically removed from the last Tsarists to whose number he belonged historically. In the Mahlerian sense, his philosophy, spiritual and physical, was an embracement of the world. He spent his hours in mystic contemplation, in psychic transcendence. He spent his days looking for ecstasy, the "highest rising of activity ...the summit". He spent his years loving womankind. He spent a whole life worshipping the private mysterium of an astral neosphere only he knew anything about.. "I will ignite your imagination with the delight of my promise. I will bedeck you in the excellence of my dreams. I will veil the sky of your wishes with the sparkling stars of my creation. I bring not truth, but freedom". One of the legendary cosmic soul journeys of the twentieth century - massively imagined, massively realised, massively risky - the cyclic Third Symphony in C minor, the Divine Poem (1902-04), dates from a time of significant change in Scriabin's life, during which period he left his teaching post at the Moscow Conservatory, read Nietzsche and Marx, seduced pubescent girls, abandoned his wife Vera and four children for a new young mistress, Tatyana, and went to live in lake-land Switzerland in the hope that such a refuge might release new ideas within him. Years later, the early writing of the symphony, at a country dacha near Maloyaroslavets during the spring of 1903, was vividly remembered by Pasternak: "Just as sun and shade alternated in the forest and birds sang and flew from one branch, bits and pieces from the Divine Poem, which was being composed at the piano in the next-door dacha, were flying and rolling in the air. Oh God, what a music it was! The symphony was crashing and collapsing again and again, like a town under artillery fire, and then building and growing again out of the wreckage and ruins. It was brimming with an essence chiselled out to the point of insanity, and as new as the forest was new, full of life and breathing freshness". In November 1903 Scriabin played through the piano draft "for the crowd of St. Petersburg composers, and what a surprise! Glazunov was delighted and Rimsky-Korsakov was also very favourable". Announced as "a grandiose creation which transports the listener fantastically into another world", the first "manifestation" took place in Paris on 29th May 1905, under Nikisch for a fee of $750. The Russian premiere in St Petersburg, on 8th March 1906, with Rimsky-Korsakov and Prokofiev at the rehearsals, was directed by Felix Blumenfeld. The French language "programme" of the work -not so much Scriabin's (lost) poem as a condensed explanation, by Tatyana and de Schloezer, her brother -centres on the Ego, divided into Man-God and Slave-Man. These forces struggle with each other, experience the discord and concord of human experience, and finally through unity and blissful ecstasy attain freedom "in the sky of other worlds". There are three principal (sonata-form) chapters: "Struggles" (Allegro, "mysterious, tragic", "red" C minor); "Sensuous Delights" (Lento, "sublime", "whitish-blue" E major -the distinguishing key contrast of not only Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto and Rachmaninov's Second but also Liszt's Faust Symphony); and "Divine Play" (Allegro, "with radiant joy", "red" C major). A short germinal Prologue (Lento, C minor) encloses a trinity of leitmotifs: "Divine Grandeur", "Summons to Man"; and "Fear to approach, suggestive of Flight". These are combined with, or are the source of, the many various ideas running through the work, reaching a climax in the so-called Ego theme (second subject) of the finale.- published: 22 Jan 2014
20 min 51 sec
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 {Vladimir Ashkenazy}
Alexander Scriabin
Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 (1893)
1. Allegro con fuoco
2. M.M. = 40 (6...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 {Vladimir Ashkenazy}
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 {Vladimir Ashkenazy}
Alexander Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 6 (1893) 1. Allegro con fuoco 2. M.M. = 40 (6:36) 3. Presto (11:25) 4. Funebre (14:47) Vladimir Ashkenazy Alexander was reportedly overpracticing Liszt's "Don Juan Fantasy" and Balakirev's Islamey when he damaged his right hand. He was informed by physicians that he would never play again. The first piano sonata was Scriabin's personal cry against God: the tragedy of the loss of a virtuoso pianist to whimsical fate, God's design.[1] During this period of disability, he wrote the Prelude and Nocturne, op. 9 for left hand alone; however, in due course his right hand recovered. Editor: Lev Oborin (1907--1974) Yakov Milstein (1911--1981) Publisher Info.: Polnoe sobranie sochinenii dlia fortepiano, vol.3 Moscow: Muzgiz, 1953 Copyright: Public Domain- published: 22 Jan 2014
52 min 44 sec
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 1 (1899)
With Lyudmila Ivanova (Mezzo-Soprano), Mikhail Agafonov (Tenor) and the Moscow Capella. Co...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 1 (1899)
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 1 (1899)
With Lyudmila Ivanova (Mezzo-Soprano), Mikhail Agafonov (Tenor) and the Moscow Capella. Conducted by Igor Golovschin with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. I. Lento - 00:00 II. Allegro Dramatico - 7:40 III. Lento - 17:04 IV. Vivace - 27:11 V. Allegro - 31:00 VI. Andante - 39:08 Alexander Scriabin's Symphony No. 1, Op. 26, in E major was written in 1899 and 1900. It is an ambitious first symphony, consisting of six movements the last of which has a chorus and two vocal soloists. The symphony had its first performance in Moscow in March 1901 under the direction of Vasily Safonov, but was not especially well received. Fifteen years later the critic Arthur Eaglefield Hull wrote that the First Symphony was "a masterly work of great beauty". The finale is a paean to the sovereignty of Art, a theme common in Scriabin's works. The Mezzo-soprano begins the movement with "O highest symbol of divinity, supreme art and harmony, we bring praise as tribute before you", and the piece concludes with Mezzo-soprano, Tenor and—finally—Chorus singing "Ruling omnipotently over the earth, you lift man up to do glorious deeds. Come all peoples everywhere to Art. Let us sing its praises." The full translation of the text of the final movement is roughly as follows: O wonderful image of the Divine, Harmony's pure Art! To you we gladly bring Praise of that rapturous feeling. You are life's bright hope, You are celebration, you are respite, Like a gift you bring to the people Your enchanted visions. In that gloomy and cold hour, When the soul is full of tumult, Man finds in you The spry joy of consolation. Strength, fallen in battle, you Miraculously call to life, In the exhausted and afflicted mind You breed thoughts of a new order. An endless ocean of emotion you Breed in the enraptured heart, And sings the best songs of songs, Your high priest, by you enlivened. On Earth gloriously reigns Your spirit, free and mighty, Man lifted by you Gloriously conducts the greatest feat. Come, all peoples of the world, Let us sing the praises of Art! Glory to Art, Glory forever!- published: 22 Jan 2014
9 min 33 sec
Mysterium - Alexander Scriabin
My homage to the awesomely megalomaniac and genius composer Alexander Scriabin who started...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Mysterium - Alexander Scriabin
Mysterium - Alexander Scriabin
My homage to the awesomely megalomaniac and genius composer Alexander Scriabin who started out as a romantic and ended as a unique trailblazing impressionistic maverick intending to destroy the unverse with his music and create a new one... and whose magnificently OTT plan was scuppered by his epically unspectacular death from septicaemia. He is supposed to have sat up in bed during his last hours, and shouted, "What a catastrophe!" - not because of his own death, but because he believed he had the secret to change the universe... well, a man can dream!!- published: 22 Jan 2014
21 min 22 sec
Alexander Scriabin - Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910)
The splendor of Korean landscape colors attempts to play the original idea of Scriabin of ...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin - Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910)
Alexander Scriabin - Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910)
The splendor of Korean landscape colors attempts to play the original idea of Scriabin of picturing a fantastic scene from fascinating musical tones. Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, first performed in Moscow on March 2, 1911, with Scriabin as piano soloist and Koussevitsky conducting, forms a distinct chapter in his symphonic work. Across its twenty-minute span, Scriabin attempts to depict nothing less than the development of human consciousness, from primordial formlessness through man's emerging self-awareness to a final ecstatic union with the cosmos. In Greek mythology (and in Aeschylus and Shelley), Prometheus had been a rebel who battled the gods on behalf of man, but Scriabin saw in Prometheus' fire the symbol of human consciousness and creative energy. He attempted to depict this musically in "Poem of Fire" and he envisioned not simply a "symphony of sound" but a "symphony of color rays". Toward this end he conceived a new instrument --the tastiera per luce, or "color-keyboard"-- that would project light of different colors on a screen behind the orchestra, reproducing visually what the orchestra was dramatizing in sound. It was a visionary conception and one of the earliest early multi-media events. (From: http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/piece-detail.cfm?id=694&bc;=1) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pictures source: http://www.cnngo.com/seoul/visit/50-beautiful-places-visit-korea-873093?page=0,0 From the original article: "50 beautiful places to visit in Korea." By Cin Woo Lee, 13 January, 2012. (Original pictures from Korea Tourism Organization) Music Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for non-profit purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.- published: 22 Jan 2014
8 min 42 sec
Alexander Scriabin Piano Concerto f-sharp minor opus 20 - II. Andante
II. Andante
piano: Anatol Ugorski
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by: Pierre Boulez
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published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin Piano Concerto f-sharp minor opus 20 - II. Andante
Alexander Scriabin Piano Concerto f-sharp minor opus 20 - II. Andante
II. Andante piano: Anatol Ugorski Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by: Pierre Boulez Scriabin finished his piano concerto when 24 years old. The concerto is full with elegance and brilliance. We enter the magical world of Scriabin's psyche! It is said that Scriabin's earlier works remind of Chopin, yet there's no question Scriabin's "style" is a very personal one with his own message, his own flavors and colours; - just like Mozart writing in a style that reminds of Haydn and even Pergolesi, he had his own "style" and every note was "new"!- published: 22 Jan 2014
48 min 10 sec
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 2 (1902)
Conducted by Igor Golovschin with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.
I. Andante - 00:00...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 2 (1902)
Alexander Scriabin - Symphony No. 2 (1902)
Conducted by Igor Golovschin with the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. I. Andante - 00:00 II. Allegro - 8:30 III. Andante - 18:12 IV. Tempetoso - 33:21 V. Maestoso - 39:09 Alexander Scriabin was born into an aristocratic Moscow family, but he had the misfortune of his mother dying when he was just one year old, and his father deciding to leave for Turkey, depositing the young man on his grandmother and great aunt who pampered the boy so endlessly that he grew up with an egocentricity that knew no bounds. When one reads of all the diversions that came into his life, it is surprising that he had time to do anything at all, but his symphonic output does remain as a landmark in the Romantic era of Russian music, his Second Symphony which took him well over a year to complete being one of his great masterpieces in an infinitely small output of orchestral music. When Vassily Safonoff, conductor of the New York Philharmonic from 1903 to 1919, conducted Scriabin's Second Symphony for the first time, he waved the score at the orchestra and said, "Here is the new Bible, gentlemen..."- published: 22 Jan 2014
5 min 34 sec
Alexander Scriabin - Reverie, for orchestra in E Major, Op. 24
This is Alexander Scriabin's Reverie for orchestra. It is performed by the Moscow Symphony...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin - Reverie, for orchestra in E Major, Op. 24
Alexander Scriabin - Reverie, for orchestra in E Major, Op. 24
This is Alexander Scriabin's Reverie for orchestra. It is performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra with Igor Golovschin. Paintings are by Vladimir Kush- published: 22 Jan 2014
1 min 52 sec
Scriabin plays Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin plays Etude Op.8 No.12 Welte-Mignon recording
Faure plays Faure
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published: 22 Jan 2014
Scriabin plays Scriabin
Scriabin plays Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin plays Etude Op.8 No.12 Welte-Mignon recording Faure plays Faure http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tQ36TFvNoM- published: 22 Jan 2014
23 min 52 sec
The Mystic Composer Alexander Scriabin (short doc)
A beautiful short film on the life of the mystic composer Alexander Scriabin.
It should a...
published: 22 Jan 2014
The Mystic Composer Alexander Scriabin (short doc)
The Mystic Composer Alexander Scriabin (short doc)
A beautiful short film on the life of the mystic composer Alexander Scriabin. It should also be mentioned that Scriabin's greatest spiritual influence came from the Theosophical ideas of Madame Blavatsky. Although this is a brief biography, there are other ways to acquaint oneself with Scriabin...and that is through his music. Essential listening includes his 5 Symphonies, his 10 Piano Sonatas and his final unfinished masterpiece (wrongly stated in the film as unstarted) entitled "Preparation for the Final Mystery". All of which are available on amazon.com and recorded, conducted and played by Vladimir Ashkenazy (one of Scriabin's greatest champions). Here is a late quote from the man himself before his death in 1915: "There will have to be a fusion of all the arts, but not a theatrical one like Wagner's. Art must unite with philosophy and religion in an indivisible whole to form a new gospel, which will replace the old gospel we have outlived. I cherish the dream of creating such a "Mystery". For it, it would be necessary to build a special temple - perhaps here, perhaps far away in India. But mankind is not yet ready for it. Mankind must be preached to, it must be led along new paths. And I do preach..." It is my opinion that the cancer on his lip was given to him (from above) since he was about to reveal that "mystery" to humanity. Society at that time were indeed not ready to receive what he was about to inform them on, since he died without being able to tell it...whatever that may have been. It's eerie to think that those powers above in a sense were telling him to sshhhh!- published: 22 Jan 2014
12 min 20 sec
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 19 "Fantaisie"
Alexander Scriabin (6 January 1872 — 27 April 1915)
Piano Sonate No. 2, Op. 19 "Fantais...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 19 "Fantaisie"
Alexander Scriabin - Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 19 "Fantaisie"
Alexander Scriabin (6 January 1872 — 27 April 1915) Piano Sonate No. 2, Op. 19 "Fantaisie" (1896) 1. Andante 2. Presto (8:27) Vladimir Ashkenazy Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, (Op. 19, also titled Sonata-Fantasy) took five years for him to write. It was finally published in 1897, at the urging of his publisher. The piece is in two movements, with a style combining Chopin-like Romanticism with an impressionistic touch. This piece is widely appreciated and although obscure, it is one of Scriabin's more popular pieces. The first movement Andante begins with echoing effects, followed by two lyrically themed sections. After a short climax, the piece modulates to E major (also C-sharp minor) and lyrical sections are restated with a slightly more complicated accompaniment. The second movement Presto, in sharp contrast to the first movement, is very fast and intense. In fact, at the given tempo indication, the second movement averages nearly 15 notes per second, making it comparable to an étude. Alternating crescendos and decrescendos may give the listener the impression of waves. The precedent of Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata allowed Scriabin the luxury of an opening slow movement to his Second Sonata, whose programme reads thus: "The first section represents the quiet of a southern night on the seashore; the development is the dark agitation of the deep, deep sea. The E major middle section shows caressing moonlight coming up after the first darkness of night. The second movement represents the vast expanse of ocean in stormy agitation." Like Scriabin's other sonatas, it is both technically and musically highly demanding for the pianist and is written for large hands (in fact, there is an enormous reach of a twelfth, although many pianists will agree that this implies an unnotated arpeggio). Editor: First edition Publisher Info.: Leipzig: M.P. Belaïeff, 1898. Plate 1605. Copyright: Public Domain- published: 22 Jan 2014
9 min 7 sec
Alexander Scriabin Symphony no 2 c minor Op 29 I. Andante - II(a). Allegro
Alexander Scriabin Symphony no 2 c minor Op 29
I. Andante - II(a). Allegro
The Philadelp...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin Symphony no 2 c minor Op 29 I. Andante - II(a). Allegro
Alexander Scriabin Symphony no 2 c minor Op 29 I. Andante - II(a). Allegro
Alexander Scriabin Symphony no 2 c minor Op 29 I. Andante - II(a). Allegro The Philadelphia Orchestra Riccardo Muti Scriabin wrote his second symphony in 1901; the première was in St. Petersburg (1902). Just like his first symphony, his great sense and originality in orchestration are obvious!- published: 22 Jan 2014
3 min 4 sec
Alexander Scriabin: Étude in C-sharp minor, op.2 no.1 (by Vadim Chaimovich)
Alexander Scriabin (1871 - 1915)
Étude Op. 2 No. 1 in C-sharp minor / cis-moll
Piano: Vadi...
published: 22 Jan 2014
Alexander Scriabin: Étude in C-sharp minor, op.2 no.1 (by Vadim Chaimovich)
Alexander Scriabin: Étude in C-sharp minor, op.2 no.1 (by Vadim Chaimovich)
Alexander Scriabin (1871 - 1915) Étude Op. 2 No. 1 in C-sharp minor / cis-moll Piano: Vadim Chaimovich- published: 22 Jan 2014
