Scriabin: Symphony No. 2 & Le Poème de l'Extase

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Detailed, soul-enriching performances. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 5th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: OC474
Label: Oehms
Length: 76 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2022

Nominated - Symphonic Music

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Scriabin: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29

Work length53:36

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Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Dmitri Kitayenko

I. Andante

Track length8:58

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II. Allegro

Track length11:29

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III. Andante

Track length16:25

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IV. Tempestoso

Track length7:01

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V. Maestoso

Track length9:43

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Scriabin: Symphony No. 4 - 'Le Poème de l'extase', Op. 54

Work length22:59

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WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Dmitri Kitayenko

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For Alexander Scriabin, writing good music was not enough; he wanted it to liberate and redeem humanity. Scriabins ecstatic sound poem pushes the romantic symphony orchestra to its limits, as though departing into infinity: And the universe echoed / From the joyful call / I am! declares the end of his soaring Le poème de lextase, the inspiration for the work. The voices of the WDR Rundfunkchor intensify this bold flight of the soul to produce an orgiastic ending. As a long-time guest conductor of the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Dmitrij Kitajenko demonstrates his particular affinity for the interpretation of Russian music in a programme that also includes Scriabin's Second Symphony. Kitjaneko celebrated his 80th birthday in 2020.

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April 2021

Detailed, soul-enriching performances.

March 2021

There is a sense in which time has stood still for this octogenarian maestro and some will applaud him for that...Kitaenko prizes cleanly articulated sensuality above the antiseptic precision in vogue elsewhere. No surprise then that his Scriabin textures seem positively opaline when set against those favoured recently by Vasily Petrenko and the Oslo Philharmonic...Those following Kitaenko’s Indian summer will find plenty to enjoy in his gentler melancholy.

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