Scriabin - Mysterium,Transfiguration(Sublime)

[guirlandes3]

Photos and an article (by Buhler) of the broadcast of the Scriabin-Nemtin Mysterium from the Himalayas are available to read and view on my website.

[guirlandes3]

About ten years ago, I engaged the noted Alpinist, Carlos Buhler and his team to take a recording of the Scriabin-Nemtin Mysterium to the summit of Mt. Melungtse in the Himalayas. At considerable risk to themselves, as they were carrying recording equipment, they played and broadcast the work from there, where Scriabin had originally envisioned its performance. Buhler also broadcast my recording of the Scriabin Seventh Sonata, which had just been released on the Americus Records label.

[guirlandes3]

Nemtin did not consider himself the reincarnation of Scriabin; far from it. He was an eccentric, but he was not so egotistical to paint himself as something he was not. He was, however, a brilliant composer in his own right and an authentic Scriabin authority and scholar. I knew Nemtin well in Moscow, and it was he who entrusted to me his original score of his realization of another of Scriabin's sketches, the unfinished opera, Keistut and Birute.

[HotSo0P]

Ugh. Mystics.

[azothdaco]

Nemtin said he was the reincarnation of Scriabin back to finish his work. The transfiguration is the 3rd initiation of soul infusion. It corresponds to the transfiguration of Jesus in the bible which all mankind is to go through if they choose...

[1kirin1]

I'm a Scriabin purist and am not convinced except by certain select parts (last 5 minutes for example). Parts in the above excerpt as well. Why these parts? Because they were the ones extant from Scriabin's sketches? Nemtin was no re-embodiment of Scriabin, that's for sure.

[azothdaco]

Nemtin thought he was the re-imbodiment of Scriabin

[4candles]

This is fascinating - I didn't know that someone had actually made a realisation of Scriabin's sketches. Nemkin made very convincing arrangements here - I wonder what Scriabin purists think? I'll have to get this!

[musicencyclopedia]

I think you put that right in a nutshell. Well said!

[Starwalker6978]

It is rhythmically weak; not at all like Scriabin! Harmonically we certainly recognize him here. I regret Scriabin didn't live to finish this work; died from a stupid infection at his lip that any little antibiotics now a days easily can cure!

[rjmlife]

ha ha lemony snicket listens to this to write, right?

[koffingdelphin]

lol thats where i heard of it

[vulpineboy1]

Absolutely amazing. Ah, I've been dying to hear this for years. Thank you for uploading this : )

[pjioayncoe]

Do you have the entire recording?

[fisherroastedpeanut]

yes i do.

[pjioayncoe]

I see that you've uploaded many other movements. Are you planning to upload the entire thing? How long is it and what's the order?

[fisherroastedpeanut]

I've uploaded most of the "nuances",which are the orchestrated version of some of Scriabin's late works.

But in all,the Mysterium is composed of 25 tracks divided into this way:

Part I - Universe.8 movements (4~15 min each)

Part II - Mankind.6 movements

Part III - Transfiguration.11 movements

The entire timing is about 3 hour-long.

[fisherroastedpeanut]

Anyway i shouldn't call it "Mysterium"..all this thing i mentioned above is only what Scriabin called 'Prefactory Act'.The actual Mysterium was supposed to last days.

[pjioayncoe]

Thank you very much. So they are only introductions? To What? And what is suppose to happen in the Mysterium?

[fisherroastedpeanut]

Check out the infos above.there's all you need to know about this work ;)

[anferlo]

@fisherroastedpeanut Seven days. When the piece finished, the earth and mankind should desappear. What a pity being a genius and talk about future, all them used to be wrong.

[Kalen1457]

oh boy, something else that's overlooked...I strongly believe things of this magnitude should be as popular as Beethoven's 9th.

[BlueCougar]

It's a bit more difficult to sing along... ;-)

[fuzzycabin]

I`ve been trying to buy the cd of this for ages but the cheapest price I can find is 100 pounds from amazon. Thanks for uploading this.

[afterTelevision]

he's great, bless him as he fell into madness

[sillyaccent]

He believed that by playing the correct notes on a song, one could bring doom to earth, right?

[fireinyourheartisout]

yea but he died b4 he finished the song so no one will never know