A. Scriabin : The Poem of Ecstasy – Le Poème de l’Extase op. 54 (Boulez)
Here you will find probably the most ecstatic music on earth : Alexander Scriabin’s « Poem of Ecstasy » op. 54 also known as his 4th symphony. It is like a long symphonic poem of about 20 minutes composed on a long (about 8 pages) epic-like poem wich Scriabin wrote himself. It tells the long course of the spirit through the space, liberated from the human body (like in the « Übermensch » theory of Friederich Nietzsche).
This is the version of Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which is not my favourite one but still very interesting.
The paintings are :
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : « Die Schwebenden »
Vassili Kandinsky : « Bleu de ciel »
Gustav Klimt : « Die Musik »
Vassili Kandinsky : Sketch for the « Composition VII »
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : « Hymne an den Glück »
Vassili Kandinsky : « Composition VII »
Vassili Kandinsky : « Composition VI »
William Turner : « Sunset over a lake »
Vassili Kandinsky : « De courbe à courbe »
Gustav Klimt : Beethovenfries : « Die drei Gorgonen »
Vassili Kandinsky : « Improvisation Klamm »
Vassili Kandinsky : « Improvisation XII »
Caspar David Friedrich : « Frau vor untergehender Sonne »
Here the links of the websites on which you can find the text of the poem :
Russian (original) version :
http://belcanto.ru/scriabin_extase.html
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