Alexander Scriabin - The Poem of Ecstasy {Le Poème de l'extase}
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- - Composer: Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 -- 27 April 1915)
- Orchestra: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy
- Year of recording: 1991
Sculpture: detail of "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa" (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini 1647-1652)
Le Poème de l'extase {Poem of Ecstasy}, Op. 54, written in 1905-1908.
During the decade immediately preceding the First World War, the European musical scene was developing at an astonishing pace. Schoenberg moved from the massive, two-hour-long Gurrelieder, with its epic Romantic text and equally lush score, to the concise and stringent Piano Pieces, Op. 11 in a matter of just eight years, while by 1913 Stravinsky was ready to unveil his Rite of Spring. Although Scriabin stayed apart from these developments, his extraordinary innovations during the first decade of the century are at the very heart of this musical realignment. Although generally regarded as a composer for the piano, Scriabin is the author of five large-scale orchestral works (all composed between about 1900 and 1910) that showcase his revolutionary artistic genius in much the same way that the piano sonatas do.
In Le poème de l'extase of 1908, the journey towards atonality and thematic fragmentation is by no means complete (the real musical goal would not be reached until the final few sonatas), but enough of the composer's increasingly complex mystical and theosophical views saturate the score to bring to it a density and complexity of expression denied to the three symphonies that precede it. It is a work that stands with great pride beside the massive German orchestral works of the period, both a mesmerizing portrait of those troubled years and, at the same time, a uniquely intimate picture of an artist's fascinating mind.
The Poem was originally to take the shape of a fourth symphony, but Scriabin decided to cast it instead as a 20-minute orchestral poem based on his own Poem of Ecstasy, a 369-line poem celebrating and glorifying his own creative powers (which would, according to his vision of reality, play a crucial role in the approaching transformation of the world). The orchestra is large -- twice the classical contingent of winds and brass are required -- and, unlike Mahler or Schoenberg, who used even greater forces than this, by no means sparingly used.
Although Scriabin's orchestral experience was limited, he was one of the early twentieth century's masters of orchestration, and throughout the Poem of Ecstasy his orchestral writing is brilliant. Themes are used to delineate mental and emotional states (in this way the late orchestral works are quite unlike the late piano works, which employ an almost exclusively textural and harmonic narrative structure). At the opening, the flute gesture searches longingly, the clarinet dreams, and the trumpet foretells a still-distant victory. An equestrian stride commences, only to be abruptly halted to make room for an ardent violin solo. As the many levels of expression unfold the music is highly chromatic, but not particularly dissonant. A glorious climax draws the music to an appropriately ecstatic finish in C major -- a key that had, for Scriabin, a cleansing and focusing quality.
Modest Altschuler, who helped Scriabin revise the score in Switzerland in 1907, and who conducted the premiere with the Russian Symphony Society of New York on 10 December 1908, reported that Scriabin's implied program (which does not appear in the score) is based on three main ideas: his soul in the orgy of love, the realization of a fantastical dream, and the glory of his own art.
Henry Miller made a reference to this symphony in Nexus, the third volume of The Rosy Crucifixion:
"That Poème de l'extase? Put it on loud. His music sounds like I think - sometimes. Has that far-off cosmic itch. Divinely fouled up. All fire and air. The first time I heard it I played it over and over. (...) It was like a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows. For weeks I went about in a trance. Something had happened to me. (...) Every time a thought seized me a little door would open inside my chest, and there, in this comfy little nest sat a bird, the sweetest, gentlest bird imaginable. 'Think it out!' he would chirp. 'Think it out to the end!' And I would, by God. Never any effort involved. Like an étude gliding off a glacier."
This is one of the most emotionally impactful and beautiful pieces of music I've ever heard; Scriabin's unique sound is other-worldly and definitely is ecstatic.
Totally insane, outstanding, crazy harmony. that's why I listen Scriabin.
Just absolutely outstandimg
@@Whatismusic123 "my melody is a decomposed harmony, my harmony is a condensed melody" Scriabine said. So counterpoint is equal to harmony. By the way how could you not see the importance of harmony since in his last period (from op.60) he literally "created" a chord and based everything around it....
For me it's obvious that Scriabine was a musician in search of unity, and considered every aspect of a musical piece (harmony, melody, rythm, structure, timbre etc.) to be ruled by the same principle. He may have achived that perfect synthesis in Mysterium if he hadn't die.
One of the most underrated and unknown composers (by his actual relevance)
all those things whilst still being totally pleasant to listen to!
This music should be played at the funeral of the universe.
What the fuck does that even mean
@@antoniocastelli5699 exactly what it says? what's there to not get?
@@f.p.2010 There are three interpretations of this comment:
1. This is meant to be taken literally. That is, in trillions upon trillions of years from now, some ethereal entity beyond the realm of physical existence will in some fashion visit our "dying" universe, and with some notion of consciousness decide to produce a collection of sound waves that exactly mimics that of strangely shaped objects made out of strange materials organized by a strange individual that could have been found on a single planet trillions of years ago.
2. This is not meant to be taken literally; this is some sort of metaphor. My best guess is that this is an eye-rollingly corny metaphor for saying "this music sounds nice."
3. "Funeral of the universe" is an actual event just with a misleading name, and this music should be played during said event.
None of these interpretations are reasonable. The first is clearly absurd, and after a quick Google search the third doesn't seem to be correct, either. I am left to believe that this is a metaphor, but I am optimistic that it's meaning is not this cheesy interpretation I've made. So, when you ask "what's there not to get," it's this metaphor.
@@antoniocastelli5699 the first is not absurd. Scriabin was next to the Absolute after Mahler, whatever he said comes or will come true.
@@f.p.2010 Then let's agree to disagree.
That is one of the most fantastically beautiful climax-endings i have ever heard in all music period.
There is happening everything before then that c major triad daaaaaaaaaaaamn!
No other composer could make a IV7flat5 to a I chord sound like the most rewarding and satisfying ending ever.
Which timestamp? Isn't the last chord a simple major chord?
@@tarikeld11 The last two chords were the ones I was referencing. The "I" notation I used represents a simple major chord, which would be the very last chord.
That sound like Ecstasy
Just before the final C chord there is even a b as leading note superimposed on the IV chord so you have a IV and V cadence at the same time, sort of super strong cadence.
Literally just had an out of body experience listening to the ending for the first time
it is wonderful. I am glad i discovered this composer.
Вступ- тема "томління" - с. 3;
тема "волі" - с. 4, 0:42;
Г.П. - тема "мрії" - с. 7, 01:03;
С.П. - тема "польоту" - с. 12, 02:07;
П.П. - тема "творінь, що виникли" - с. 18, 02:33;
З.П. - тема "волі" - с. 22, 03:33;
тема "самостверждення" - с. 22, 03:46;
тема "протеста" (розробка) - с. 55, 06:57.
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7:39 that build up is celestial, how on earth could he create such things. 13:54 17:07 18:20
Totally unique. One has only to hear the first bar to know the composer. Scriabin labored mightily over this composition which, to me, has everything one could ask for. The ending is just stupendous.
This work - like almost everything Scriabin ever wrote - is completely unique and special. It is unlike anything I have heard before or since I first listened to it. The memory of hearing it for the first time will stick with me forever.
scriabin's orchestral works were amazing, not only were they ahead of their time, but they were some of the greatest masterpieces that a human could have possibly written
My curiosity with the transformation of his sound led me to dig out a book I purchased a long time ago but am only getting to now titled Scriabin His Life and Times by Rudakova and Kadinsky. Although it is about 150 pages it is a pretty large sized book, maybe 24 x 12 and contains excerpts of many letters he wrote and some wonderful photos not only of him his wives and family but also selected pages of original manuscripts, concert programs, places he lived and studied and wrote music, and photos of notable musicians who championed his music and premiered his orchestral music and also many of his contemporaries and teachers including Taneyev, Rachmaninoff, Miaskovsky, Lyadov. Glazunov, Rimsky Korsakov, Alexandrov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, many others. It great to have if you're a fan of his or Russian music in general. Maybe this will be one step closer to understanding the cause and theory of the changes he made with his music I am so curious about.
+scottbos68 That's great to hear! I have been researching Scriabin in the past before, but no resource is complete... Please share with us (me) interesting anecdotes about him or his music here if you want!
Nothing new with respect to music analysis, everything we discussed pretty much covers what I have found so far. It's still a great book to have if you're a fan.
@@ziegunerweiser Where can I find the place where you discussioned?
It's an oop book but you can get a used copy
www.amazon.com/Scriabin-Life-Times-Ye-Rudakova/dp/0866220062/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Scriabin+kadinsky&qid=1586802325&s=books&sr=1-1-spell
Holy shit, Scriabin. This is powerful
Petrenko and Berliner brought me here. Only heard the ending before, but what a thrill to listen to the whole piece!! Will definitely get the full score.
Alekszandr Szkrjabin:Az Eksztázis költeménye Op.54
1.Andante languido - Lento soavamente 00:10
2.Allegro - Allegro dramatique 06:13
3.Lento - Allegro volando 09:52
4.Allegro molto. Leggerissimo. Volando 16:44
Berlini Rádió Szimfonikus Zenekara
Vezényel:Vladimir Ashkenazy
Köszönöm az értékelést
Thank you
I don't think this piece is supposed to be divided into movements lmao
@@dukeofcurls3183 He is dividing them by tempo changes; otherwise, there would be nothing to comment.
Köszönöm az értékelést
Like taking a bath in Sound
This is really unique flavour. An picture; As if I was reaching for the stars. The bright stars are gliding past me as if they were blinding. I am surrounded by the mystery of the night with its cold arms, but at the same time, as I ascend to the sky, my body evaporates with the burning lights of the stars and I rise again with my soul in the fog.
This is what I felt when listened masterpiece
Scriabin 4 moment
Brilliant ending. Very hard to follow the score though. I would love to hear the piano version of this. It’s very hard to hear all the parts!
I mean weed has funny content and solid memes and all, but Sweet Mother of Jesus this is some real good shiz.
Exactly
I really don't want to know what happens to someone who takes LSD and then listens to this.
@@Quotenwagnerianer I can tell you. It was brash, beautiful, exquisite, harmonically tragic, overwhelming, and a blissful masterpiece. I felt as if I was weightlessly floating in the airwaves carefree whilst becoming enveloped in every timbre of the orchestra. 10/10 would recommend
Hey man do you still have some? How much for a gallon?
@@Quotenwagnerianer Psychedelics are very misunderstood.
Love all the wonderful innovations of this period of music, early 20th century. Ravel, Stravinsky, R. Strauss, Holst, etc. A real, precious gift to the world.
don't forget PDQ Bach... ;)
@@bckm54 LMAOOO
Scriabin is the only one of that time that actually innovated, all those you mentioned merely regressed
@@Whatismusic123 why
@@Whatismusic123 I think you are right. I still enjoy a lot of Ravel's music. I think he was creative, but that is different from being innovative. There is nothing in particular about his music that I could call entirely new. I think Stravinsky probably pushed boundaries a little, but his innovation is nothing compared to Scriabin's. The fact that that guy even mentioned Strauss and Holst makes me think that he doesn't understand the concept of musical innovation at all. Strauss and Holst did not change the course of musical history one bit. They are evolutionary dead-ends.
one of the most beautiful symphonies of 20th Century
Wow I spotted a perfect cadence at 8:40! Did Scriabin have a lapsus? 😂
Is there another one besides this and the final one?
Well u have a good ear
There’s also one at 13:35
The final one is not actually a perfect cadence, is a F7 resolving to C major so it's kind of a plagal cadence
@@juanrivero6432 but look at the bass motion at 17:17. It goes from G (of a dominant ninth) to C and stays there for the rest of the piece. The bass on C should have a C major triad over it, but it has ultra-long appoggiaturas on different chords before landing on the home chord.
This concept is very typical (see for example the ending of Mozart's K.2), but here it's brought to absurd lengths to the point it becomes quite distorted.
@@adlfm Yeah youre right! I thougth you were talking about the cadence at the very end!
(The first time that i heard that last part of the piece i didnt knew what kind of cadence was until i look at the score, so i thougth that you had the same confusion as me)
🔸Вступление
Тема томления - 0:00
🔸ГП - тема мечты - 1:03
СП - тема полёта - 2:06
ПП - тема возникших творений - 2:33
Тема воли (труба) - 3:30
Тема самоутверждения (труба) - 3:45
🔸Разработка:
Начало - 4:32
1 кульминация - 6:13
Тема протеста - 6:57
Тема воли - 7:16
2 кульминация - 9:03
🔸Реприза
ГП - 9:52
СП - 11:16
ПП - 11:44
Темы-триады - 12:44
Тема протеста - 13:28
Тема самоутверждения - 14:32
🔸Кода:
1 раздел Charme - 14:47
2 раздел - 16:45
Экстаз Maestoso - 17:17
Ну просто золото, цены тебе нет...
Святой человек, спасибо тебе!!!
WHAT NOT IN THE WORLD IS THIS WEIRD AND SPACY THING? I LOVE IT!
13:27
that horn section omg
Imagine what he would have done had he lived longer
This piece is called The Poem of Ecstasy because when you listen to it you get put into a state of ecstasy.
nah it’s about sex u dummy
In case you didn't know, this is a musical genre from the romantic era called "Symphonic Poem", and this poem is written based on Bernini's "Ecstasy of Saint Theresa" sculpture, as it shows her at the very beginning. That's why this has this title, The Poem of Ecstasy.
W. Esteban Labrador I believe this symphonic poem was not based on the Bernini's sculpture. In fact, Scriabin wrote a poem to accompany this work. I believe the first interpretation is more accurate than yours. Greetings from Spain.
@@scriabinismydog2439 Just read Scriabin's poem. It's about sex.
This is what happened to Saint Teresa. She listened to this while she was in heaven and she lapsed into ecstasy again.
This recording is one of the best musical experiences I ever had!!
Reminds me of Wagner a little bit, but stranger.
scriabin surely captures infinite ecstatic samadhis, all included in a just a moment of pure awareness which can devour the whole universe. here he creates a new dimension, a small buddha-field, full of buddhas.
Well said!
the buildup from 7:17 to 8:03 gave me chills lol
There are moments where the impression is of peering into arcane, startling, and vast secrets of reality.
This music is a brilliant argument that tonality can never be completely abandoned.
It's not only that.
That idea haunted even schoenberg's twelve tone music.
How? Wasn't Schoenberg all about abandoning tonality?
He was, but it's almost impossible to really get away from it, since there are certain parts of even atonal music that can be a bit tonal. I think Bernstein explained it best. There are some of his video lectures online that you should look at, where he discusses Schoenberg and his pupils.
Just looked up those lectures, thanks for showing me! Really informative!
That ending......
Is just wow.
šuriņbērniem
Ekstāzes poēma s.o.:
ilgu tēma ♫ [izsmalcināti pustoņi un lēcieni, flauta u.c.] 0:10
lidojuma t. [trauksmains jamba ritms!] 2:05
pašapliecinājuma t. ♫ [heroika, trompetes, jambs] 3:45
:)
I would like to see Prometheus with sheet music.
I absolutely would too!
Do another search. This can be found on UA-cam now: one showing the full score, and another a 2-piano reduction.
Recently heard this for the first time ever, and it was played live. Feeling incredibly fortunate that I got to witness this being performed in real time as my first ever experience with it.
I heard this live at Kansas City in early March. Is this the performance you are talking about?
@@mysterium364 Yeah, that's the one!
I heard it live in Kansas City in March as well, and I will never forget walking out afterward and looking at the other concertgoers and wondering how it was that everyone appeared to be so "normal," when I felt like I'd just had my soul shredded in the most intense and beautiful way and could barely hold back tears as I made my way out.
@@lrvolkman The organ was simply unreal. I was SO excited when I saw that it was going to be used and despite the long wait, it really, really did NOT disappoint.
I’m always thrilled by 13:00-13:52 - full of yearning and ominous wonderment and voluptuous beauty!
Grandiose, exubérant, génial..
does anyone have the poem Scriabin wrote for the music? I can't find the full poem anywhere
+André Teixeira Here it is: flameinthesnow.blogspot.nl/2014/08/le-poeme-de-lextase-op-54-alexander.html
+olla-vogala thank you so much!
Shades of white... purple mist... floating in the High sea... the crowds in awe from the sunrise
Any lump of wood after hearing this piece: *BONFIRE LIT*
0:00 вступление т.томления
1:03 ГП т.мечты
2:06 СП т.полёта
2:33 ПП т.творений
3:30 ЗП1
3:33 ЗП2
3:46 ЗП3
16:45 Coda
17:17 Climax
0:10 вступл., т.томления (fl.)
1:03 ГП, т.мечты (cl.)
2:05 СП, т.полёта
2:33 ПП, т.творений (vno solo)
3:29 ЗП1, t.trevogi (corni)
3:32 ЗП2, t.voli (trba)
3:46 ЗП3, t.samoutverzhdenia (trba)
3:59 'liricheskoe otstuplenie'
4:32 razrabotka
6:57 epizod razrabotki, t.protesta (trni)
7:15 prodolzhenie razrabotki, ЗП1 i ЗП2
9:00 kulminacia razrabotki, t.samoutverzhdenia
9:51 repriza ГП, т.мечты (cl.)
12:58 t.samoutverzhdenia
14:47 Coda
16:45 2 razdel Codi
17:17 Climax, 18:18 pausa generala, 18:20 vershina !
I am torn between this and Prometheus but my favourite is the black mass sonata :D
I put this quite a bit above Prometheus for its emotional impact, although I agree 9th sonata is incredible.
@@braedonkirkpatrick2143 I agree extase is more emotional however I think this was Scriabins intention as Prometheus and especially works like the 7th sonata are almost totally mystical in mood. You've got good tastes aha .
@@brucedavies8154 Thanks! Dont get me wrong, I still love Prometheus, although for some reason his 7th sonata eludes me. I haven't been listening to scriabin for that long though, so maybe I'll grow into it
13:55 totally power unleash
Harmonic galore ... ...
These intervals
Fun fact: this work was premiered on the day Messiaen was born.
That idea of putting the pentagram in the video is very nice. And must have been quite a lot of work...
Pentagram?
Oh, sorry, in Portuguese we say "pentagrama" to refer to the lines and spaces where music is writen... I should have said music score.
Klaus Vargas yea, pentagram means 5 lines, from Greek "πεντάγραμμο". 😉
Saccidananda Sadasiva :)
Klaus Vargas how funny. I have the same problem with spanish. It is pentagrama, and It does not translate to Pentagram.
Horns and strings look like Mahler works (especially symphony n.10 , Adagio movment).
Вступление
Тема томления, вст - 0:00
🔸ГП - тема мечты - 1:03
СП - тема полёта - 2:06
ПП - тема возникших творений - 2:33
З.П. - тема воли - 03:33;
2 -- 03:46
3 --- 06:57
🔸Кода:
1 раздел Charme - 14:47
2 раздел - 16:45
Экстаз Maestoso - 17:17
Me knowing how much of a horndog Scriabin is 😂
ilgu tēma [izsmalcināti pustoņi un lēcieni, flauta u.c.] 0:05 0:10
lidojuma t. [trauksmains jamba ritms!] 2:10 2:05
pašapliecinājuma t. [heroika, trompetes, jambs, kvartas augšup] 4:00
amazing recording of an amazing piece
ecstasy εκ-στάση SchizoBuddha! 🕉
What a magnificent sculpture, the expression on her face is so - well - expressive, what an appropriate image to display as it relates to the title and concept. I don't know why but there is a certain warmth I feel when I hear this: golds and yellows and oranges but at the same time it's so alien - like watching a Vulcan sunrise - from another planet. From my perspective, I do not associate this with ecstacy, I do not associate this with being human. It is a sound from a different world. It is terrifically modern without being dissonant or atonal, a fresh sounding piece even though it was written over 100 years ago.
+scottbos68 Did you also read Miller's reference? '...a bath of ice, cocaine and rainbows'. Be careful with this piece, I was obsessed with it for quite some time ;)
Yes I read everything, it's a reference I can't relate to but that's just me, I don't really associate the title with the music either and that's OK, I think the music is so abstract that hundreds of people could hear it and every single one would say something different about it.
scottbos68
Yes of course, everyone has their own associations with the music they hear. I can associate the music with the title, but you're right that you don't necessarily have to associate with it, to enjoy the music.
As an experiment I went to different yt clips of this music to see what other people said about the music and many described it as floating through space and other worldly.
Mario, do you know the name of the sculpture?
Best version I've heard.
I can tell you enjoy your music by your profile pic best anime ever in my opinion and has some more amazing classical
Overwhelming, bombastic, heroic
First time I heard
12:18 iPhone text message
I'm relatively new to this kind of music, but this piece... It exceeds all and everything I have ever heard; music, poetry, the language of love, everything. This is pure essence, and with Deleuze words: "what can you do with the essence, the final difference which nothing could replace, but to repeat it?"
well said, comrade
described it perfectly, comrade
Intoxicating orchestration melody and harmony. Music of transport.
i have listened to this piece well over 20 times and yet it still makes me wildly uncomfortable.
A true innovator who deserves as much recognition as Stravinsky.
I love love love this piece
Scriabin's masterpiece!
The last chord hasn't been held long enough.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
This music speaks to the emotions in a powerful but eerie way. In that sense, it reminds me a lot of the cosmic horror in Lovecraft. I think Scriabin would have liked it.
Amazing, that he composed this four years before Custer's Last Stand.
Sounds like what late Mahler would’ve written
i don’t have words to describe this
Utterly fantastic.
Parts that stand out to me:
2:33
8:15 etc
12:19 (cute, almost tranquil, like a baby star being born)
13:35 and on
12:51 horns (imperial, feels like a break in war)
14:49 (like nymphs prancing around the stars)
16:24 - 16:38 sounds like sex
16:49 and on
i would include the climax, but do I really need to?
Magnificent music,
5:49 - 6:13
I would expect this to be the elevator music at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, if such a thing were ever to exist.
Grandioso e avveniristico nell’orchestrazione .
Reminds me a bit of Bruckner.
OMG just amazing
This is the greatest love offering in history, even greater than the shooting of Reagan.
브라보!정말 훌륭한 연주,훌륭한 곡이다
Spirit,
Winged with the thirst for life,
Is drawn into flight
On the summits of negation.
There, under the rays of its dream,
Emerges a magical world
Of heavenly forms and feelings
Spirit playing.
Spirit desiring.
Spirit creating all with a dream.
Surrenders to the bliss of love.
Amid the rising creations
It dwells in languor,
From the height of inspiration
Calls them to flower.
And drunken with soaring
It is ready to sink into oblivion.
But suddenly . . .
Trembling presentiments
Of dark rhythm
Break rudely into
This enchanted world,
But only for an instant.
With light increase
Of divine will
It dispels
Frightening phantoms.
And it attained
Only desired victory
Over itself.
Spirit playing,
Spirit caressing,
Spirit calling hope of joy
Surrenders to the bliss of love.
Amid the flowers of its creation,
It lingers with a kiss
Over a whole world of titillation
Summons it to ecstasy.
Intoxicating it with beauty
It is transported, it tiptoes,
Dances and whirls;
With a whole range of sensations
It is tormented, wearied.
Ready to sink into oblivion
But again . . .
From mysterious wombs
The spirit confused
A formless host
Of savage terrors
Rises stormily
In menacing waves;
It threatens
All to submerge.
Spirit,
Winged with the thirst for life,
Is drawn into flight
On the summits of negation.
There, under the rays of its dream,
Emerges a magical world
Of heavenly forms and feelings.
Spirit playing,
Spirit suffering,
Spirit creating grief by doubt
Succumbs to love’s torment
Mid the flowers of its creations
It lingers in torment,
With whole earth shakings,
Calls them to death.
Seized with fear,
It is ready to sink into oblivion
But then . . .
Bright presentiments
Of shining rhythms
Awake within it.
Sweet moment!
With rays of hope
Radiant again
It burns for life.
And marvelously attained
Is the power
Of divine will.
It pierces
The dark abysses
With glowing glances,
It shouts with rage
And fury . . .
The battle blazes.
Yawning caverns
Of monster mouths
Flash menacingly
Passionate lightning streaks
Of divine will,
All-conquering;
Radiant reflections
Of magical light
Illuminate the world.
Spirit,
Forgetting the beloved goal,
Drunkenly yields the struggle.
All enraptured,
Fully delighted
With free
Godlike play
The struggle of love.
In the divine loftiness
Of pure aimlessness,
In combining
Opposing desires
In single awareness,
One love.
Spirit learns
Its divine essence.
It knows that
Which desired struggle;
It desires only,
And events
Assembled round
This wish
In harmonious order
Capricious emotion.
Spirit,
Playing, changing
Vibrates the universe
Explaining
Affirming.
Desirous of victories,
It was victorious,
It is triumphant!
And to its beloved realm,
Joyous, it can return now.
But what darkens
The glorious moment?
ALAS!
IT HAS ATTAINED ITS PURPOSE.
It longs for past struggle.
Instantly it feels
Boredom, melancholy and emptiness.
But with thirst of life,
Again it is winged
Is drawn into flight
On the summits of negation.
There, under the rays of its dream
Emerges a magical world
Of heavenly forms and feelings.
And tormented by nothing
It can eternally
Surrender to
Favored dreaming
But why, O rebellious Spirit,
Again is Thy rest perturbed?
No disturbing rhythm
Overshadows Thee,
No dreadful phantoms
Haunt.
Only monotony’s
Infecting poison,
The maggot of satiety
Devours feeling
With sickly cry
The universe resounds:
Something else!
The new!
Wearied of pleasure
Worn with pleasure
But not with life,
Spirit lifts into flight
To the kingdoms of grief and suffering.
And in its free return
To the world of dream and of excitement
It comprehended miraculously
The idea of evil’s
Mysterious abysses.
Again the dark caverns
Gape open
Again the mouths threaten to swallow
Again battle,
The girding of will
The wish to conquer all.
Again victory, again intoxication,
And rapture
And satiety.
With this increasing rhythm
Beats the pulse of stronger life!
O my world, my life,
My blossoming, my ecstasy!
Your moments each by each
I create by negation
Of earlier experience.
I am forever
Negation
Again and
Ever anew!
More powerful
More tender,
New torture,
Fresh beatitude.
Delighting in this dance,
Choking in its vortex.
Unmindful of goals
Beloved aspirations
Spirit surrenders to playful
drunkenness.
On powerful wings
It speeds
Into realms of new discovery
Of Ecstasy.
In this endless change,
In this purposeless, godlike flight
Spirit comprehends itself
By its might of will.
Alone, free
Ever-creating.
All-illuminating
All-lifegiving
Divine play
In multiplicity of forms:
It knows itself
As the palpitation of life,
The wish to burgeon
In the struggle of love.
Spirit playing
Spirit fluttering
By its enduring longing
Creating Ecstasy
Gives itself up to Love’s thrill
Mid the flowers of its creations
It lives in freedom.
“I summon you to life,
Hidden longings!
You, sunken
In the somber depths
Of creative spirit,
You timid embryos
Of life,
To you I bring
Daring!
Now, you are free!
Fragment and flower
Separately
Rise up one against another
Flee to the summits
That in sweetest bliss
You may know all your oneness
Annihilated within me!
Rise up one against another,
Strike against me,
Negate your love!
Turn against me, all people and
elements,
All horrors lift up your heads
Try to destroy me,
Caverns of dragons’ mouths
Serpents twist round me
Constrict me and bite me!
When all rises
Against me,
Then I begin
My
Play.
O waiting world,
Weary world!
You are thirsting to be created
You see the creator.
Your tender sweet sigh,
Calling
Has been wafted to me.
I will come.
Already I dwell in you
O world of mine!
With mysterious delights
Of unknown feelings,
With myriads of dream and vision,
With inspiration’s flame
With Truth seeking,
With the forbidden wish
Of divine freedom.
O my beloved world,
I shall come.
Your dream of me
Is being born
It is I.
Already I am manifest
In mysterious presence
A barely perceptible
Breath of freedom.
Lightly,
A wisp of dream
The wave
Of my being
Has already seized you.
You are quivering already
I am your beloved freedom,
You my beloved world!
I am come
To dazzle you
With the marvel
Of enchantment repeated;
I bring you
The magical shiver
Of scorching love
And unimaginable caresses.
Surrender to me in all faith!
I will drown you in oceans of bliss
And beloved kisses
And great heaving waves
But in our remoteness playing
Only the spray
Envelopes you
And you insanely desire
Something else!
The new!
And then in torrents of flowers
I will lie upon you
With aromas and scents
I will bask languidly
In this play of fragrance
Now tender, now sharp
In the play of touches,
Now soft, now harsh
And sinking into passion
You will
Whisper:
Again and
Ever again!
Then I will plunge
With a horde of fearsome monsters
With savage torment and terror
I will crawl upon you with venomous
nests of snakes
And will bite and choke you!
And you will want me
More madly, more passionately.
Then I will lie upon you
Under rays of celestial suns
And you will burn with the fires
Of my emotion
The holy
Flames of desire
For the sweetest,
The most forbidden,
Most mysterious.
And all of you is a single wave
Of liberty and joy.
Multiplicity has created you.
Legions of feelings
Have elevated you
O pure desires,
I create you,
This complex unity
This feeling of bliss
Seizing you completely.
I am the instant illuminating eternity
I am the affirmation.
I am Ecstasy.”
The universe
Is embraced in flames
Spirit at the summit of its being
Feels
Endless tides
Of divine power
Of free will
Emboldened,
That which menaced
Is now seduction.
That which frightened
Is now pleasure.
And the bites of panther and hyena
Are new caresses
And the serpent’s sting
Is but a burning kiss.
And thus the universe resounds
With a joyful cry
I AM!
i dont have no fucking idea of this music but i like yes nice :)
IMMENSO TANT'E' CHE M'ILLUMINO
It' s an exoteric way to eternity .
*Libertarianism* isn't real *capitalism* .
@@mysterium364leftards too
Disjointed brought me here. Legit cried during that scene.
extase
would have never found this composer without reading Henry Miller
idk,but people who play piano to the highest level will know Scriabin
I love this
I’m seeing this live in a few months so I’m listening beforehand so that it will be easier to follow. So far I don’t love this - I don’t really get it actually. However, this is only my first time listening. I’m going to keep trying
4:27
Found it enthralling in my teens, but now turning 80 the music screams like a streetcar taking a tight turn on the rails.
What I am wondering is what recording of this you had access to around 1960. I don't think this was exactly mainstream back then. Or maybe it was, I don't know.
And this is the Black Tapes
Beautiful
brilliant !!!
Is it me or was there a vocalist in this performance?
The classic Stanley Kubrick film background music, definitely..
Is this Mahler's 12th??
lol
Mahler has nothing on this.