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Scriabin: Preparation for the Final Mystery [Box set]

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  • Performer: Alexander Scriabin
  • Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin
  • Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
  • Composer: Alexander Scriabin
  • Audio CD (14 Aug 2000)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 3
  • Format: Box set
  • Label: Decca
  • ASIN: B00002R2SQ
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 205,482 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

Disc: 1
1. Nuances: i. Pas vite (Poeme Languide, Op. 52 No. 3)
2. Nuances: ii. Allegretto (Poeme, Op. 59 No. 1)
3. Nuances: iii. Con delicatezza (Feuillet d'album, Op. 58)
4. Nuances: iv. Vivo (Poeme Aile, Op. 51 No. 3)
5. Nuances: v. Con delicatezza Cristallina (Desir, Op. 57 No. 1)
6. Nuances: vi. Avec enchantement (Caresse Dansee, Op. 57 No. 1)
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Disc: 2
1. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part II: Mankind: Giubiloso, extatique
2. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part II: Mankind: Grandiose et enigmatique
3. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part II: Mankind: Solennemente, Rituale
4. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part II: Mankind: Dechirant -- dedicazione
5. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part II: Mankind: Religioso -- mysterieusement -- fermamente luminoso
6. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part II: Mankind: Con timidezza -- misterioso, concentre -- avec une volupte radieuse -- tres dansant
Disc: 3
1. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part Three: Transfiguration: Allegro con collera -- lento timidamente -- febbrilmente
2. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part Three: Transfiguration: Lent, vague, indecis
3. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part Three: Transfiguration: Tres lent, contemplatif
4. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part Three: Transfiguration: Avec un intense desir
5. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part Three: Transfiguration: Infernale
6. Preparation For The Final Mystery - Part Three: Transfiguration: Sublime
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On this CD:
  1. Preparation for The Final Mystery
    Composed by Alexander Scriabin
    Performed by St Petersburg Chamber Choir, Ernst Senff Chorus, Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra
    with Anna-Kristiina Kaappola, Alexei Lubimov, Alexander Ghindin, Thomas Trotter
    Conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy

  2. Nuances
    Composed by Alexander Scriabin
    Performed by Berlin Deutsches Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Alexander Nemtin's brave realisation of the "Preparation for the final mystery" (from Scriabin's magnum opus Mysterium), enables us to hear its awe-inspiring conception in all its glory. Working from sketches, Nemtin presents a convincing manifestation of the very extremity of Scriabin's thought. The intensity of this piece is unremitting. To listen straight through is an exhausting, but ultimately uplifting experience, one aided by this thoroughly committed performance from Ashkenazy and his Berlin forces. Even though the harmonic language used is extremely concentrated, the progress of the work remains involving, natural and, above all, gripping. The music is frequently hypnotic, often breathing an all-encompassing, pantheistic mysticism. The soloists, particularly the soprano Anna-Kristina Kaappola and the pianist Alexei Lubimov, are superb. The recording aptly conveys the requisite sense of space whilst simultaneously allowing every detail to come through. The coupling, Nuances, comprises a selection of Scriabin's pieces orchestrated to form a ballet. Ashkenazy's performance highlights the elusive nature of this music, as in the flighty fourth movement or in the twilight world of the 12th. A treat for all fans of mature Scriabin, sumptuously recorded and expertly played and sung. --Colin Clarke

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing & Powerful Work in its own right, 24 Feb 2007
By Scriabinmahler (Cambridge UK) - See all my reviews
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This re-construction of Scriabin's Final Mystery is very controvesial, when it comes to how faithful Alexander Nemtin was to Scriabin's own sketches when he orchestrated them and when he added his own bits to extend the work to this gigantic scale.

But whether Scriabin or Nemtin, the work itself is well worth listening for its originality, kaleidoscopic complexity and megalomaniac vision. Performance is very commited and overwhelmingly powerful. You can listen to this as a huge piano concerto, as solo piano part takes main part. Far richer experience than Busoni's uninspired piano concerto.
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