A. Scriabin : The Poem of Ecstasy - Le Poème de l'Extase op. 54 (Boulez)

Here you will find probably the most ecstatic music on earth : Alexander Scriabin's "Poem of Ecstasy" op. 54 also known as his 4th symphony. It is like a long symphonic poem of about 20 minutes composed on a long (about 8 pages) epic-like poem wich Scriabin wrote himself. It tells the long course of the spirit through the space, liberated from the human body (like in the "Übermensch" theory of Friederich Nietzsche).
This is the version of Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which is not my favourite one but still very interesting.
The paintings are :
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Die Schwebenden"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Bleu de ciel"
Gustav Klimt : "Die Musik"
Vassili Kandinsky : Sketch for the "Composition VII"
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Hymne an den Glück"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Composition VII"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Composition VI"
William Turner : "Sunset over a lake"
Vassili Kandinsky : "De courbe à courbe"
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : "Die drei Gorgonen"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Improvisation Klamm"
Vassili Kandinsky : "Improvisation XII"
Caspar David Friedrich : "Frau vor untergehender Sonne"
Here the links of the websites on which you can find the text of the poem :
Russian (original) version :
belcanto.ru/scr...
German version :
deposit.ddb.de/...
English version (thanks to the user who sent it to me!):
docs.google.co...
Hope you enjoy... ;)

[@charlesdavis7087]

The unborn child must kick the mother from the inside out in order to be born. The act of creation is an act of violence. The word "ecstasy" comes form the Greek "ekstasis," i.e., the stepping out or breaking away from. It is not unlike the pen touching the virgin (white) paper or the paintbrush's first mark upon the canvas. "L'Extase" expresses this the intense hungry seeking to be fulfilled. The hunger is eternal the satisfaction and/or the disappointment countless. And yet, creation begins with L'Extase... the stepping forth. "Let there be...." The Big Bang is still banging the universe into forms... and forms many, including "Le Poeme de L'Extase." Thank you all for sharing. CVD

[@kriztianrulez]

Charles Davis beautiful man

[@Valentina-lw9kk]

Ohh such a beautiful remark!!!!❤️

[@PiEndsWith0]

I was wondering why you had ended your post with 'Checimcal Vapor Deposition'. Then I saw your name....

[@katherinelambropoulos2600]

This is exactly it Charles !

[@OBudful]

Creativity might be the forbidden fruit

[@wcsxwcsx]

It's interesting how prominent the trumpet is in his orchestral works.

[@stevesincock941]

As a trumpet player that's very good news for me!

[@michaeledwards1172]

And several of Scriabin's later works call for 5 trumpets, which is unusually many.

[@user-zz5te5nw7g]

I feel because the trumpet is reminiscent of heaven in a way

[@gachapinCUEVA]

This piece was the final nail in helping me create a graphic novel set in an alternative futurist world. I already had the gist of it, and characters, but what I didn't have was a visual. When I first heard this, reaching to the finale, I saw everything that I needed. It appeared like a movie trailer. Now all I need to do is create it altogether. Its amazing what wonderful pieces of music can do to help the imagination.

[@arteshki5779]

Hows your novel doing

[@saxon8981]

Cringe

[@OdinLimaye]

This is one of the most emotionally impactful and beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard; Scriabin's unique sound is other-worldly and definitely is ecstatic.

[@erikfreitas7093]

One of the most sublime and exhilarating orchestral works ever composed.

[@rodopil1161]

His Poem of Ecstasy brings these two disciplines together with his own "Poem of Ecstasy" inspiring his music of the same title. But behind this lofty goal was a somewhat less lofty subject: sex. Scriabin originally set out to write a poem he was calling "Orgiastic Poem," centered on physical ecstasy, but later decided to alter the title to something more ambiguous - which thankfully allowed his work to gain a more universal audience. His poem is 300 lines and his orchestral piece just over 20 minutes long, yet the theme of each is clear and singular. It is a theme of self-affirmation and self-fulfillment, built on the interval of the fourth. And while Scriabin's original version ended with the Nietzsche-inspired last line of "I am God," he changed it to a less controversial "I am" in his final version. For Scriabin, music was much more than just notes and sound. Even in a Russia where mysticism, religious or occult in nature, was all-consuming, Scriabin stood out with his unique belief system - a mix of Hinduism, theosophy and Nietzsche. He began to see himself as a messianic figure and proclaimed that "the purpose of music is revelation."

[@rodopil1161]

Many people thought Scriabin was completely mad, but most acknowledged his genius. He saw musical tones as colors, a condition known as synesthesia, and he longed to connect all of the senses in his work - hearing, sight, taste and smell. For some time before his death he planned a multimedia work to be performed in the Himalayas that would cause an Armageddon, "a grandiose religious synthesis of all arts which would herald a new world." He would call the work Mysterium. While that final work never materialized, Scriabin's music and worldview anticipated the coming avant-garde movement with surprising accuracy. Hearing this lush score and letting it overwhelm our senses is enough to let us appreciate his profound talent. Marin Alsop is music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the São Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit www.npr.org/.

[@omar3domar3d84]

rodo pil he was a true Artist and a Mystic. I also believe, his death was somehow linked with the matters of his philosophical interest..

[@menelaos.peistikos]

+rodo pil I am very interested in your opinion. My favorite philosopher is Nietzsche and my favorite composer is Scriabin. I always thought this music could also be describing Nietzshe's theories but i read somewhere that Scriabin was a very religious person. So, have you got any trustworthy source for his real theory? I am very interested to find what is beyond Scriabin's music techniques.

[@iqtestfree]

Theosophy

[@yossipeles7864]

rodo pil isn't "sex" lofty? And it is even loftier when transformed into music by a composer like Scriabin.

[@DihelsonMendonca]

This music drives me crazy ! - It´s both heavenly and diabolic. It may have not been composed by a man, but by a GOD. Scriabin may be the greatest composer of all time. In his short life "he boldly went where no man has gone before." ( or after )

[@beng7716]

Dihelson Mendonca I see you everywhere in Scriabin videos

[@RepentInReprise]

Scriabin was, in fact, born on Christmas and died in April. Towards the end of his life... he was writing "Music which would destroy the world." Indeed, perhaps we would have all perished had he lived on and saw his work to fruition. We often see people commenting (myself included) on how his music induces us into a weightless state... floating, somewhere, in thought. His music is the only music I've encountered that does this to people. There an article, too, that listening to Scriabin's music apparently drove him insane: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/11489584/Hong-Kong-pianist-who-microwaved-parents-sentenced-to-jail-for-life.html www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1733477/man-who-killed-and-dismembered-parents-not-psychopath-hong-kong-court

[@DihelsonMendonca]

@@beng7716 Thank you. It´s good to read that. After 2007, I really became a Scriabin fan, and like to comment everywhere I can about his music. And if you say so, then, you love Scriabin´s music also, my brother. Let´s share our love to our master !

[@DihelsonMendonca]

@@RepentInReprise Now that you said that, I was wondering the same thing for years. I suspect that his mind didn´t hold such a powerful music. He simply blown his mind. His musical ideas are far beyond anything human.

[@WarTurtle007]

@@DihelsonMendonca Its probably comparable to a mentally unstable person smoking weed and losing his mind during the high. The drug wasn't meant to be used by him, his mind was weak and fragile to begin with. This Music can wake people up from the inside like a psychedelic but through sound.

[@charlesrae3793]

I was blown away when I heard Scriabin's orchestral music. People comment on Tristan und Isolde as erotic, but they clearly haven't listened to Scriabin.A prolonged, musical orgasm, no less.

[@gabrieru1983]

It´s like floating in space....great work by Scriabin

[@greedokenobi3855]

I wonder if John Williams was inspired by this when he wrote the score for ‘77 Star Wars (A New Hope) (especially the Tatooine scenes). I know people say he was inspired by Gustav Holst (amongst others) and I definitely agree with that but this reminds me of the Tatooine scenes. And agree with you with the floating in space feel as well.

[@Bampaloudu64]

J'écoutais le concerto de Scriabin joué par Ashenazy et Maazel, et sans m'en rendre compte je viens de regarder que ça fait 10 minutes que j'écoute cette composition symphonique. J'ai même pas vu le temps passer. ça m'absorbe.

[@johnrobinsoniii4028]

I remember hearing this composition several times years ago. What always stuck in my mind was that ended with the loudest C Major chord I ever heard. Even louder than Strauss's "Also Sprach Zarathustra's" chord.

[@emilerose1714]

both related to nietzsche ahha

[@MrPlumiferus]

Thank you so much for this post, I was looking forward to hear a complete version of Boule'z recording of this masterpiece. The selection of paintings is wonderful, and the link to the german version of Scriabin's poem is simply unvaluable. This is definitely an 'other-wordly' kind of music, I'm not a religious person at all, but I believe in art and music, and this is what it is all about.

[@cedricbellissent]

Divine musique. Scriabine touchait des sphères que peu d'hommes ont atteintes.

[@originaltommy]

Because of this I haven't dropped acid yet and I'm 49. I drink and smoke a lot of weed but....yeah. This is the best psychedelia! Of its time? Sure but also in many ways very much ahead of same. Either way, it's amazing stuff that takes you on a very colourful journey indeed!

[@PacRimJim]

Not to put too fine a point on it: Wagner = coitus to climax (eventually) Scriabin = coitus interruptus (repeatedly)

[@IsabellaSN]

Hahahahaha... Then Vivaldi would be coitus perpetuous... 😆😁

[@mysticmouse7261]

You need to wait for it like till the end

[@user-qm7ic9qv9f]

Каждый слышит в меру своей испорченности, видимо

[@neweraofthechambermusic3699]

По мне, это долго-долго продолжающийся сладострастный и нежный половой акт. Со стимуляцией всех эрогенных зон.

[@tiosav6251]

he thinks he's smart because he uses latin

[@Nganguenf]

Mystical, very mystical...The long course of spirit through the cosmos.l Iike Scriabine and his synthetic chords.

[@coldivories8264]

seven people couldn't handle l'exstace

[@arsamshamsi3085]

seventeen, unfortunately :))

[@richardszalai5230]

Now just 30 people

[@ludwigvanbeethoven926]

Cold Ivories tHatH rigHt. lol

[@asmith405]

Stunning choice of paintings - thank you!

[@perarntzen5184]

Boulez does not romantize this music, as many does. Bravo Pierre!

[@gerardzinsstag9523]

cette musique a été composée quelques années avant l'oiseau de feu !! Et on trouve des accointances troublantes avec le Stravinsky de cette époque...

[@remixuereb]

Ne pas oublier également l'influence qu'exerça Florent Schmitt avec son Psaume 37 publié en 1904 ....

[@licenselessrider4486]

Surprised the government isn't regulating this

[@abrahamparraamante6850]

JAJAAJAJA i really understand you

[@numa1206]

Bravo!

[@HermanIngram]

Not yet.

[@HermanIngram]

ZaraPaz69 You’re confusing Trump with the Democrats.

[@ZaraPaz696]

they are all the same marionets

[@originaltommy]

I think this is 1) a great masterpiece worth protecting and promoting and 2) absolutely an aphrodisiac. I have some Afghani Kush and a cheap Chardonnay. And this. I will sleep well tonight. I have to wonder if Maestro would approve but I digress.

[@xuvetynpygmalion3955]

When all the excitement has built up thoughout this marvelous piece, and you stand there, about to breach into the climax of this piece, you can nothing do besides leaping into the golden sunshine that begins to radiate from this composition; you surrender to its elevation as you lose grip of the linearity of time, and you shred your tears in complete joissence

[@chrish12345]

Lovely upload thanks, you can always be guaranteed to have good quality of sound with Boulez

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

Boulez and Chicago were made for this gorgeous music. Scriabin would have be delighted by their performance, I know I was.

[@stepanpolivanov4182]

This is the most intelligent comment section I've ever seen

[@johnmanno9701]

Thank you for posting this. I like Boulez's conducting in general (I absolutely love his "Pelleas et Melisande" by Debussy, with George Shirley singing Pelleas). However, his interpretation of this work falls a bit flat, though I'm deeply impressed with his ability to balance the impossibly huge orchestra that Scriabin wrote this for, and I'm finally able to hear all the delicate and startling inner detail of the work. I suggest, after you listen to this version, look up Zuban Mehta's version with the L. A. Philharmonic, also on KZbin. It's much more energetic and intense, though perhaps not as careful as this one.

[@LordBubuu]

Thanks.

[@peteredwards8737]

I like this one. It's the sort of music I would write too if I knew I was going to get a sore lip then die because of it...

[@stephenestall9044]

Wonderful performance and recording.

[@originaltommy]

Yes, please.

[@notaire2]

Simply ecstatic!

[@AlexandreJdB]

I have the german and the russian (original) version... I can try to translate it in french. I don't know which language would be better for you. I will post the link of the websites where i found the text in the description of the video! =)

[@lorenzodavidsartormaurino413]

The paintings are so fitting, beautiful...

[@danybaychere5949]

Musique étonnante d'une couleur éclatante qui fait penser à l'oeuvre de Stravinsky avec une touche personnelle propre à Scriabine: une intériorité, une poésie bouleversante.

[@123must]

Beautiful ! A lot of thanks

[@senafan]

Thank you for posting. But.... an ad before the last chord has even finished sounding?? Unbelievable. KZbin turns it into The Poem of Commercialism. Talk about a bucket of cold water...

[@classy_dweller]

So wonderfully soul-soothing work !

[@joelturken1724]

Have to study this underrated work in more depth. Fully understand Boulez's fascination with it. It is more forward looking than the great pieces by his more conservative colleague and compatriot, Rachmaninoff, another great pianist and composer.

[@Mattttsin]

pure genius

[@billmarrufo]

Am I the only one to hear similarities with Stravinsky´s ballets and orchestrations here?

[@aleksandarstojceski3139]

Absolutely Firebird!

[@arsgoetia461]

Same!

[@andreapandypetrapan]

Firebird all over the score.

[@samuelsamson8210]

Do I hear Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite" in this music at times? Interesting fellow, Scriabin. Believing that he was in fact God, it is said that he tried to walk on Lake Geneva but, finding it difficult, got into a boat and began preaching. This piece was played by the Soviet Army Radio as Yuri Gagarin made his first flight into space. Kubrick could have used the finale for "2001".

[@TomCL-vb6xc]

samuel samson Scriabin was very Neitchze and theosophy-inspired. He believed he was a messiah of sorts and he had to change the face of existence with his gift.

[@michaeledwards1172]

"This piece was played by the Soviet Army Radio..." Do you mean Scriabin's "The Poem of Ecstasy", or Prokofiev's "Scythian Suite"?

[@belleepoque4597]

This is so very visionary, though not quite as inspired as Prometheus. All the same, I prefer his late period piano compositions above everything else.

[@ivancaragia9993]

StUxN3tvs4 it seems a reasonable opinion to me, if you’ve first heard Prometheus, than POEcstasy..

[@michaeledwards1172]

@@ivancaragia9993 I think they're equally good, but Prometheus, being a later work, develops Scriabin's harmonic language even further than does The Poem of Ecstasy.

[@amapolabilis4663]

The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing: Scriabin was undoubtedly a hedgehog.

[@bobbixvv]

all of these comments sound like thoughts captain raymond holt could make. and then there's me. who found this piece from a tumblr post.

[@jackpollock8969]

I love your b99 reference there 😅

[@mirakocher3530]

Wonderful!

[@giovannicolpani3345]

Nietzsche never wrote about "spirit through the space, liberated from the human body". he was materialist.

[@pitvit81]

This statement is a bit risky. Nietzsche was atheist, but I'm not sure he was materialist.

[@giovannicolpani3345]

he said "soul is a word to indicate a part of the body" and also: "be faithful to the earth". Surely he was not materialist in the traditional meaning of the term, but defining him as "materialist" is still a "reasonable risk" ;) (sorry for my english. i'm italian)

[@pitvit81]

giovanni colpani Nietzsche era un pazzo fottuto.

[@ZaraPaz696]

just compare the clear definition of materialism with the classic quotes & passages of Nietzsche.

[@grafplaten]

@@pitvit81 "Und so frage ich mich: was will eigentlich mein ganzer Leib von der Musik überhaupt? Denn es gibt keine Seele." (Nietzsche contra Wagner)

[@notaire2]

Quite an un-Russian music performed by an un-Russian orchestra directed by an un-Russian conductor. The result: exquisitely beautiful performance of this extremely mystical masterpiece!

[@omar3domar3d84]

notaire2 hmm, why Scriabin is un-Russian? :)) What is 'Russian' in your opinion? -- anyway, being myself Russian I agree with you -- it is definitely a different type of 'story' than Tchaikovsky&&Rachmaninoff

[@notaire2]

omar3d omar3d I've never said Scriabin is un-Russian, but said his music is un-Russian. In my fixed idea Russian music is represented by Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, etc. Rachmaninov is a little bit different, because his music is to some extent influenced by American music.

[@omar3domar3d84]

notaire2 Ok, excuse me. I'm just really interested in a topic. There's is now a debate going on in a Russian-speaking world, about what does is mean "to be Russian". It is quite an ambiguous concept. Because of the multi-ethnic composition of the territory. Soviet times etc. -- as the result, there's no convention about it. For example, Rachmaniniov -- I would say that he has something.. 'Tataric' in his music. And for Scriabin -- on the contrary -- there are sides which are, I'd say, 'authentic Russian'.

[@notaire2]

omar3d omar3d Thanks for your reply. If I were able to understand Russian language, it would be very interesting for me to participate the debate.

[@robertberger4203]

+omar3d omar3d Volga Tatar folk music is actually pentatonic and quite delightful . Supposedly, Rachmaninov was of Tatar descent, but never any music influenced by Tatar folk music .

[@philiprostek]

Great music!

[@jinwoobae7555]

BOULEZ IS REAL ARTIST.

[@twelveequalparts399]

Very unique interpretation, though by no means my favorite. However, as is often the case, I am partial towards the recording I was first exposed to.

[@JD-qj8qn]

+Twelve Equal Parts which was?

[@ivancaragia9993]

Esa Pekka Salonen + OP ? :-)

[@dad9447]

Todo un rito de pasaje desde la alegoría al símbolo!!!

[@frankmacdulligan1153]

Scriabin, fue un pianista y compositor, dedicado mas al teosofísmo, el mundo esotérico espiritista, influyendo en las nuevas corrientes tanto ideológicas, como musicales que, como el dodecafonismo, empezaban en Viena a abrirse camino, con músicos como Schoenberg, Berg y Webern..

[@mofarag2529]

So which recording is your favourite?

[@a.p.t.l6908]

Que bonita....

[@FranciscoFerrerGaliana1930]

Magnifico

[@cea765]

Just read the translation, thank you so much! Did you translate yourself? If so, just out of curiosity, from which language?

[@user-pl3xk6pe1f]

This piece reminds me of Aram Khachaturian (The opening of Onedin Line).

[@ivancaragia9993]

Thank you for existing !

[@newyork1401]

think John Williams borrowed some of the Star Wars music from some of Scriabin's Symphonies 1 and 2

[@maestrogalindo]

John Williams borrowed a lot of things everywhere ......

[@scottsmith7419]

newyork1401 i promise you he ripped off mars by holst (for star wars) and the opening two sections of rite of spring (for jaws) and death and transfiguration (for "if i could read your mind" from superman). no getting around it. wonder if he's honest about these thefts.

[@ivancaragia9993]

There’s this thought about the modern composers.. “all of them steal, one just have to be smart to know where to steal from”.. And John Williams is undoubtedly a smart one. My two pennies :)

[@newyork1401]

great music

[@paarse2024]

Это лучшее исполнение из всех существующих!

[@aleksandrsergeev5721]

Послушайте Мравинского,не пожалеете...

[@sun_korea]

It is a poem/painting/music "I am"

[@igorsantos8383]

why do you think the "Übermensch" theory tells of a spirit liberated from the body?

[@ArtHistoryScholar]

WHOA! Holy shit this is great!

[@FREDV321]

AlexandreJdB, do you have any idea where I can find the poem that Scriabin wrote to accompany this piece?

[@schmalolz]

Wow!!!!!!

[@jackiejack997]

Boulez rulez (graffiti adorning a door in the Royal College of Music, London, some 60 years ago)

[@pedrofragoso3298]

This version misses that "bang" in the end we have seen for example in Petrenko's/Berliner Philharmonic interpretation.

[@sabinagmg]

[@F61Wolf]

That was a really intense listening experience. Superb. I heard someone mention Scriabin a few days ago so I looked him up completely randomly. Does anyone here have any recommendations for other stuff of his or other similar composers?

[@kwastimus]

Check out his later piano sonatas, from the 5th onwards, and Vers La Flamme (an unfinished sonata). You can find records of people playing series of his etudes or preludes. An early work of his I also recommend is his one and only piano concerto. In terms of style, Scriabin is quite unique, but perhaps you might enjoy the later Russian composers like Prokofiev and Stravinsky. Also guys like Takemitsu, Schnittke.

[@LiradeTerpsichore]

F61Wolf Horowitz plays Scriabin, RCA and other Horowitz/Scriabin - CBS and RCA

[@jockc]

check out Scriabin's other symphonies and also those of George Enescu

[@alexandrejamardebolsee5918]

Here AlexandreJdB, check out prometheus by scriabin, the fifth sonata for piano (almost the same construction but a bit more on the path of atonality) and the Third Symphony by Szymanowski! ;)

[@michaeledwards1172]

No-one's mentioned composers like Roslavets and Feinberg, who are sometimes seen as successors to Scriabin (the former described in one comment as "Scriabin on acid"). Roslavets's piano music (sonatas, etudes, etc.) and orchestral music (two violin concertos, "In the Hour of the New Moon") are worth looking at (all available on KZbin except I'm not sure about the second violin concerto). Samuil Feinberg's 13 piano sonatas are highly recommended for post-Scriabinistic complexity and other-worldliness and pianistic brilliance, as well as various other piano pieces and three piano concertos. You'll probably find most of the piano sonatas on KZbin, maybe all, but I'm not so sure about the piano concertos. Also Alexander Krein's Piano Sonata in B minor, Op. 34 (there is a recording, showing the score, on KZbin by Jonathan Powell). Finally, I will recommend two British composers who may be of interest. Cyril Scott's music is not especially influenced by Scriabin, but by impressionist comp,osers generally, but he was a mystic like Scriabin, and believed in similar theosophy-influenced ideas, although I think Scott remained more balanced than Scriabin, and didn't end up thinking he was God or anything. He wrote many books about esoteric spirituality as well as composing many piano pieces, some of them charming pictures of natural scenes. Some of his large-scale orchestral music is now available, and I haven't really looked into that, except that I have heard the two piano concertos, which have a slightly Scriabinistic mystical feel to them. And then we come to Yorkshire's William Baines, who tragically died aged only 23, but left perhaps over a hundred piano pieces, many with a definitely mystical feel to them, and with some influence of Scriabin. Some of these can be found on KZbin, played by pianists such as Eric Parkin, Alan Cuckston, Simon Kenworthy, and Duncan Honeybourne (in a live recital). Scores can be found on imslp.org .

[@pepe4rock]

wow epic - sounds more like a bad LSD-trip at some points...... Note that in 1909, neighter LSD (1943) nor Ecstasy (MDMA, 1960) was "discovered" for the human race........

[@iqtestfree]

Well ,you had other psychedelics ( mushrooms,peyote etc.) but yes the music was one of them..

[@freelunch3260]

Yes. The music suffers from this absence.

[@mysticmouse7261]

Auditory heroine

[@user-qm7ic9qv9f]

Заставки супер , много дополняют воображение, и кто это?.можно поспорить, но интересно.( в отличии отдр.комментаторов --- ни какой физики, земли,а только природные явления: борьба стихий , что Свыше!

[@chelseamiichele]

Thank you for this. Are you aware of an English translation?

[@LOLERXP]

Unfortunately the description contains a grave misrepresentation of Nietzsche.

[@paarse2024]

The best

[@lisavetta6071]

1 т 0:00 2 т 0:57 3 т 2:04 4т 5:26 5т 6:50 6т 7 т 19:50

[@redrobin7482]

love and knife

[@Examantel]

Tonally ambiguous for most of the piece, but compared to the late Romantic harmonies of the Third Symphony, it is but a mere extension, and many commonalities exist between the two.

[@belamoure]

Film music of the greatest pink saccharine sort.

[@dukeofcurls3183]

the "allegro volando" section starting at 2:04 is performed way too slowly here imo, it's genuinely only a little bit over half the speed I would take

[@TomCL-vb6xc]

This would ruin the performance for me were it not the divine music of Scriabin; I fail to see how any respectable conductor can choose such a tempo in a piece all about the rapturous release of ecstasy.

[@dukeofcurls3183]

@@TomCL-vb6xc it *does* ruin the performance for me, i'll stick to Ashkenazy or Salonen any day

[@rorybass7915]

This is badass

[@christianduka7846]

For absolute chills check out the Gergiev one

[@freelunch3260]

gergiev anything, really

[@auxnull]

more Kandinsky

[@artemiskhakov7459]

Роза Мира?!

[@Cesariono]

0:57 That sounds like the theme from his 5th Sonata.

[@dukeofcurls3183]

this and the 5th sonata were composed around the same time, they have adjacent opus numbers, and they were both based off of the same 300-line "poem of ecstasy" that Scriabin wrote

[@esterbalbi4558]

great music!

[@The1976spirit]

In this interpretation there is no energy, no eruption, no per aspera ad astra. Scriabin´s Theosophy, his solipsism were comedy, in fact his ideology is 100 % Beethoven. Boulez prefered Szymanowsky to Scriabin, he decided op. 54 to be clumsy. Otherwise it would have been volatile, disjointed, spasmodic. Boulez was an old friend of blood duty, he left with Bataclan. Dead can´t dance

[@gabrielkaz5250]

Besoin d'un retour en enfance pour apprendre qu'un avis n'est pas une vérité absolue ??

[@The1976spirit]

@@gabrielkaz5250 One single angular momentum leaves you absolutely in the Monoverse, not the Universe. Spell "Enola" backwards, letter for letter, and you will be enlighted. "Galaxies - always two there are!" (Mirona Thetin)

[@gabrielkaz5250]

@@The1976spirit Tu peux dire ce que tu veux "no energy, no éruption" ça veut dire ce que ça veut dire.

[@Nobody-tu5wt]

This music is for the frontal cortex,not for the amygdala

[@piano_dissent]

😂

[@Nobody-tu5wt]

@@piano_dissent Yeah, this was a cringeworthy comment

[@paulgreen6921]

Once is enough. I am very suspicious of music that has erotic roots. The source of inspiration brings to mind a ancient anonymous warning: “Never shall it force itself on us; that that WHICH IS NOT may be. Keep your thought far away from this path of searching.” PWG “Verily, in the house of hades there is soul and ghostly form but, NO MIND AT ALL.”

[@gunwookim4047]

20:40

[@charlesmugleston6144]

Can anyone tell me please, was this wonderful piece inspired by Scriabin reading The Ruba'iya't of Omar Khayya'm as translated by Edward FitzGerald ? Thank you Charles Mugleston Omar Khayyam Theatre Company

[@Dylonely42]

16:20

[@tomlin1312]

高潮能撼動人心,但空間音色可能不太對勁 !?

[@redrobin7482]

with violin

[@gabrielkaz5250]

4:53

[@dogecoin1692]

Yuri Gagarin

[@markbrandus]

!

[@19BenZ57]

from PERSIA with Passion

[@grantdcba962]

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