Even for listeners who love Scriabin's symphonies, the question is "Did he get better or worse as he went along?" For some listeners, he got better, with each symphony rising further into the realms of the transcendent and the sublime. For other listeners, he got worse, with each symphony descending further into the realms of the self-indulgent and the self-glorifying. For those other listeners -- and for listeners for whom Scriabin's symphonies, early or late, are uncharted territory -- this 1963 recording of his First ...
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Even for listeners who love Scriabin's symphonies, the question is "Did he get better or worse as he went along?" For some listeners, he got better, with each symphony rising further into the realms of the transcendent and the sublime. For other listeners, he got worse, with each symphony descending further into the realms of the self-indulgent and the self-glorifying. For those other listeners -- and for listeners for whom Scriabin's symphonies, early or late, are uncharted territory -- this 1963 recording of his First Symphony for soloists, chorus, and orchestra with Evgeny Svetlanov conducting the USSR Symphony Orchestra is the recording for you. Svetlanov apparently deeply believed in the music and his faith fused all six of the work's diffuse movements into an organic whole. In the first five purely instrumental movements, the USSR Symphony performs with the ardor of new lovers and its ardor infuses the music with a sensual glow that makes the most of its colorful textures and chromatic harmonies....
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