ALEXANDER SKRIABIN

Russian composer Alexander Scriabin is an exceptional, original, eccentric personality, whose works cannot be forced into any stylistic frame. Scriabin astonishes with the individuality of worldview. The composer sought to express his new ideas in a new musical language that corresponded to his philosophical creative ideas. In his music he tried to express the longing of the suffering soul, a vision of a brighter future. Scriabin’s creative legacy is not diverse in terms of genres. It is dominated by instrumental music: piano and symphonic opuses. Le poème de l’extase (The Poem of Ecstasy), Op. 54 is one of the composer’s most outstanding works. It can be seen as a continuation of the philosophical thoughts of the Third Symphony Le Divin Poème (The Divine Poem), a glorious hymn to the human will, the mind, the ecstasy induced by the joy of creation. Scriabin worked on Le poème de l’extase in 1905–1908. The poem is dominated by two contrasting emotional states, which Scriabin named “the greatest subtlety” and “the greatest grandeur”.

The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra performs the Swiss composer and conductor Niklaus Aeschbacher’s edition (1962) for a reduced orchestra. Solo trumpet – Laurynas Lapė, conducted by maestro Modestas Pitrėnas. This majestic work closed the 77th season of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic.