Alexander Scriabin - Prometheus or The Poem of Fire (with score)
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Many thanks to Thomas Van Dun for his preparation of this score video. / @thomasvandun
Prometheus or The Poem of Fire / Symphony no. 5 - for orchestra, chorus and light organ
Written by Alexander Scriabin in 1910.
Performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Chorus, conducted by Pierre Boulez
'This was the last orchestral work written by Scriabin, and it is widely regarded as his most radical large composition and one of his greatest masterpieces. From about 1903 onward Scriabin was drawn toward the study of theosophy, and he gradually became more daring stylistically as well. The Symphony No. 5 reflects his increasingly eccentric artistic persona: it attempts to take the first step toward uniting all art forms, as well as to express certain religious and philosophical ideas.
The work's harmonic language is advanced -- but this was only another step along the way for Scriabin, who had already fashioned a style well beyond the average listener's comprehension in his own day. The composer never realized a crucial part of his conception: in the score he specifies that certain colours should flood the concert hall during performance, projected by a "clavier à lumières," a keyboard instrument not even in existence at the time. Scriabin associated keys with colors -- F major, for example, he linked with hell and saw as blood-red. At the March 15, 1911, premiere -- led by Koussevitsky -- the music was given without the accompanying colour projections. A 1915 New York performance provided the colours for the audience, but by projecting them on a screen -- a disappointing compromise for the composer.
The score also calls for a huge orchestra (eight horns, five trumpets, and other large sections), piano, organ, and chorus, whose members are instructed to wear white robes and sing with closed lips. Scriabin attempts to unify sound and color, as well as to convey his mystical and philosophical ideas via his Prometheus, a mythological character who symbolizes rebellion against God. The composer associates him with Lucifer, called the bringer of light, thereby introducing the element of bright color, infernal images, and much else into the work.
Scriabin bases the composition on a single chord of six notes, from which emerges the opening theme on muted horns and virtually all subsequent thematic material. Prometheus begins with music depicting Chaos, and then turns to a variety of other subjects that include joy, eroticism, human passion, and ego. Near the end, when the music reverts back to the gray mists of the opening, there is a section entitled "Dance of the Atoms of the Cosmos."
The whole work evokes ethereal and otherworldly images. The music has an aura of the surreal throughout, with thematic development taking unexpected detours and instrumental colours often brighter and more intense than the colours any machine could project in a concert hall. The expressive language of Prometheus lies somewhere between Stravinsky's The Firebird -- a work written at about the same time -- and some of the early 12-tone works. Still, this is tonal music, masterfully crafted and hardly offensive to the modern ear. It is also pure Scriabin from first note to last.' - Robert Cummings
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Strauss meets Messiaen meets Tchaikovsky meets everything majestic and EPIC in this whole f*** ing universe.
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Strauss is shit. Why are you comparing him to Scriabin. Also, I feel like I already commented this here. Is RUclips removing all "negative" comments from everything? I find that when I expand comments to see sub comments, there is nothing half the time.
Some comment called Strauss awful. I don’t know how you call one of the greatest orchestrators ever shit.
Going to sing it tonight with my choir Hard Chor Linz in the Brucknerhaus in Linz, Upper Austria ... wish me good luck!
Wish I could have been there! Must have been amazing.
That ending chord!!!
6:31 onwards flows so beautifully between sections, there's just something about it which all just fits so well, and while this recording is a bit too slow for my liking, there are lots of moments unlike any other recording, where the music is just so reserved in a way, almost like if it's coming from underground, which seems like it would be what Scriabin intended
on god bruh
Scriabin is objectively the greatest 20th century composer
thats a strange way of spelling "of all time"
@@positive.juice.apartment debatable. Although, I personally don’t really think that is sensible to compare composers of different eras in order to pick one and considering him the greatest one
@@LooksMatterTheMost haha true. i was half joking, no point in comparing scriabin to bach
Scriabidi Toilet IS SO HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
luckily this is just your opinion.
Masterpiece…
hello there
@@TimoTheePiano1 general kenobi
@@TimoTheePiano1 hey man
A lot of Neo-Romantic orchestral music from the 1980s onwards, by composers who shun a straightforward return to tonality but espouse traditional aesthetics and do not shy away from sensuality, sounds like this - from Karamanov to Salonen.
Not only was he an amazing pianist composer, but his orchestration skills are on par with the well-known great orchestrators. I only wish he wrote chamber music.
EPIC!!!
7:45 reminds me of Ravel Piano Concerto
Wow!
Perfect.
15:33混濁的懸幻波瀾
13:58 triple color organ
du pur génie
0:04 вступление
1:58 тема ГП (тема разума)
3:57 2 тема ГП (тема движения)
5:35 пп тема томления
6:07 2 тема пп
Notes for myself:
Bro was speechless the whole way through
@@suburbaninhabitor ahahah
I never got so many likes for a comments that is not even intended to be read...
Thas because the whole piece is a banger
These notes are for all of us
22:20
Truly Blessed Moment
9:35
18:00 🙂👍🏻
La Belle sharp 6:14
True x 2 / 2 = You
beginning and 6:31 and some other.
5:57
Inafferabile
Interesting [ish] piece. For me, a semi-tired re-tread of the Poem of Ecstasy. I can see that it would be influential though for some later composers.
No one asked
@@mcbill7352 He's allowed to write his opinion without needing an invitation to do so. That news to you?
@@fredsikno one asked
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Modernists
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