Faubion Bowers

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin

Scriabin's last two orchestral works were the products of a virtual delirium of composing. Poem of Ecstasy and Prometheus: Poem of Fire demonstrate his original musical spirit and dazzling gifts as an orchestration, employing immense orchestral forces.

In Full Score

Poem of Ecstasy and, Prometheus: Poem of Fire

Partition d'orchestre

Symphonie en mi pour grand orchestre et choeur, op. 26

Russian composer Alexander Skryabin's life spanned the late romantic era and the early years of the twentieth century, but was cut short before the end of the first world war. In a predominantly conservative era in the Russian musical scene, he drew inspiration from poets, philosophers, and dramatists of the Silver Age, a period of radical artistic renewal in Russia. Possessed by an apocalyptic vision of transformation, aspects of which he shared with other Russian thinkers and artists of the period, Skryabin transformed his musical language from a ripe Romantic style into a far-reaching, radical instrument for the expression of his ideas. This collection of the composer's writings and letters shows Skryabin's worldview and personality. The book also dispells misconceptions about his life and reveals the philosophies that comprised his world of ideas, from Ancient Greek and German Idealist philosophy to the writings of Nietzsche, and Indian culture to the Theosophical writings of H. P.Blavatsky.

The Notebooks of Alexander Skryabin

A pair of great works from two distinguished Russian composers features Scriabin's Piano Concerto in F-sharp Minor, written during the first significant phase of artistic career, and a highlight from Rubinstein's extensive oeuvre, the magnificent Piano Concerto No. 4 in D Minor.

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Scriabin

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