Scriabin / Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Symphony No. 2 CD

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 Po?me orgiaque ('Orgiastic Poem') with it's unprecedented raw sensuality and overpowering aesthetic, taking chromaticism beyond even Wagnerian voluptuousness. His earlier Symphony No. 2 in C minor adopts C?sar Franck's cyclical ideas to which Scriabin layered sweeping climaxes, majestic intensity and rich orchestral colour that enliven it's five movements with ceaseless invention.

1. 1. Le Po?me de L'extase (The Poem of Ecstasy), Op. 54, "Symphony No. 4" 2. * Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29 (Title, Not a Track) 3. 2. I. Andante - 4. 3. II. Allegro 5. 4. III. Andante 6. 5. Iv. Tempestoso - 7. 6. V. Maestoso