Scriabin - Symphonies 4 & 5 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Tolstoy described Alexander Scriabin's music as Incha sincere expression of geniusInch while Scriabin described himself as Inchall impulse, all desire...Inch His virtuosity rivaling that of Rachmaninov, the young and colorful musician and composer found inspiration in his idol, Chopin, while still touching his compositions with Russian darkness and sensuous passion. This album of his less-popular compositions also includes the child prodigy's Canon in D minor, composed when Scriabin was only 11 years old.

Vinyl LP pressing of this 1987 from the reggae/dub legend.

This historical from First Hand features two major English orchestras and two acclaimed conductors in stereo recordings from the late 1950s, offered here for the first time on CD and for the first time ever in stereo. The recordings were transferred using original analogue session and master tapes from the EMI archive. The program includes American conductor Thomas Schippers leading the Philharmonia Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4, and English conductor Sir Eugene Goossens leading the orchestra in Scriabin's Reverie in the first recording of a Scriabin work ever made by a British orchestra. To conclude the disc, Goossens leads the Pro Arte Orchestra in Prokofiev's Symphony No. 1.