Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No. 2

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Release Date: 10th Feb 2023
Catalogue No: 8574139
Label: Naxos
Length: 59 minutes

Grammy Awards

66th Awards (2024)

Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance

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I. Andante

Track length6:29

II. Allegro

Track length9:15

III. Andante

Track length10:52

IV. Tempestoso

Track length5:54

V. Maestoso

Track length7:43

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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.

Scriabin: The Poem of Ecstasy; Symphony No. 2

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