Composer: Alexander Scriabin
Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Joann Falletta
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574139
Release: 2023
Size: 1.09 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Symphony No. 4 – ‘Le Poème de l’extase’, Op. 54
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29
02. I. Andante
03. II. Allegro
04. III. Andante
05. IV. Tempestoso
06. V. Maestoso
Scriabin composed most of his single-movement fourth symphony The Poem of Ecstasy between 1905 and 1908 in Italy and France. He originally intended it to be called Poème orgiaque (‘Orgiastic Poem’) with its unprecedented raw sensuality and overpowering aesthetic, taking chromaticism beyond even Wagnerian voluptuousness. His earlier Symphony No. 2 in C minor adopts César Franck’s cyclical ideas to which Scriabin layered sweeping climaxes, majestic intensity and rich orchestral colour that enliven its five movements with ceaseless invention.