Scriabin Preparation for Final Mystery Ashkenazy Decca
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Nov 11, 2007
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>>>>>>>>>>>>> RARE OUT OF PRINT 3CD!! <<<<<<<<<<<<<<< DECCA 3CD 466329-2 DDD / MADE IN GERMANY > 3CD & BOOKLET IN EXCELLENT CONDITION! >> Chance to win this out of print 3CD set which includes the world premiere complete recording of Scriabin's most ambitious work, Preparation for the Final Mystery, magnificently performed with immense grandeur and overwhelming force SCRIABIN / PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL MYSTERY ASHKENAZY DEUTSCHES SYMPHONIE ORCHESTER BERLIN Alexei Lubimov / Alexander Ghindin : piano Thomas Trotter : organ Anna-Kirstiina Kaappola : soprano Ernst Senff Chor / St Petersburg Chamber Chor CD1 1-14 NUANCES (NEMTIN'S BALLET FEATURING ORCHESTRATION OF SCRIABIN'S LATE PIANO WORKS) PREPARATION FOR THE FINAL MYSTERY 15-22 PART1 / UNIVERSE CD2 1-6 PART2 / MANKIND CD3 1-11 PART3 / TRANSFIGURATION REC 1996-97 JESUS-CHRISTUS KIRCHE / BERLIN "Scriabin's 'Preparation for the Final Mystery' was never broght to completion, and the music heard on this recording is the unique creative achievement of another Russian composer, Alexander Nemtin, working at the end of the twentieth century. What actually remained of Preparation after the composer's death in 1915? First of all, there are the verses of the text, which were published in 1919 in the magazine Russkiy Oropilei (Russian Propylaeum), no6. Secondly, there are the reminiscences by Scriabin's comtemporaries who heard him perform large sections of the work at the piano. Thirdly, there are the 53 pages of musical sketches that were preserved and copied out. These lay unremarked on the desk in Scriabin's Moscow home, now the Scriabin Museum, until 1970, when the 34 year old composer Alexander Nemtin took interest in them... studied the originals of sketches, conscientiously re-copied all Scriabin's sketches sorting them out according to tonality and Scriabin's own terms of definition as found in previous works : longing, will, dream, death. The sketches reveal Scriabin moving towards a new musical language even more advanced than that of his fianl works. There are, for example, a number of twelve-note chords, employing all twelve notes of the chromatic scale in vertical alignment... Nemtin immersed himself thoroughly in Scriabin's style and creative processes and devoted 26 years to reconstructing a massive three hour work for orchestra and chorus in three parts. Nemtin's reconstruction faithfully reflect the overflowing richness, the complex orchestration and seething energy of Scriabin's late style. The harmonic language is the intricate chromaticism that Scriabin's most advanced contemporaries were exploring at the end of Scriabin's life. There is a part for organ, and the solo piano plays a leading role, as it had in Prometheus. The music is restless and impulsive, veering from intense forcefulness to dreamy inactivity, although no mood is allowed to settle for long. The climaxes are stratospheric, the colours kaleidoscopic." From commentary note Text in English / German / French Now I'm listing many rare out of print CDs of great recordings Check out my other items!
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