Scriabin - Mysterium,Transfiguration(Sublime)

A.Scriabin-A.Nemtin Preparation for the Final Mystery or Mysterium.here's a little part taken from the last movement (Sublime).

Berlin Symphony Orchestra,conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.


Mysterium is an unfinished musical work by composer Alexander Scriabin. He started working on the composition in 1903, but it was incomplete at the time of his death in 1915.

Scriabin planned that the work would be synesthetic, exploiting the senses of smell and touch as well as hearing. He wrote that "There will not be a single spectator. All will be participants. The work requires special people, special artists and a completely new culture. The cast of performers includes an orchestra, a large mixed choir, an instrument with visual effects, dancers, a procession, incense, and rhythmic textural articulation. The cathedral in which it will take place will not be of one single type of stone but will continually change with the atmosphere and motion of the Mysterium. This will be done with the aid of mists and lights, which will modify the architectural contours."

Scriabin intended that the performance of this work, to be given in the foothills of the Himalayas in India, would last seven days and would be followed by the end of the world, with the human race replaced by "nobler beings".

At the time of his death, Scriabin left 72 pages of sketches for a prelude to the Mysterium entitled Prefatory Action. These sketches have been completed by Alexander Nemtin to form a three-hour-long work, a task that took him 28 years, and recorded.

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• Mysterium
• nemtin
• scriabin
• ashkenazy
• berlin
• orchestra
• sublime
• transfiguration

[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 ;)

[vulpineboy1]

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

[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!

[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...

[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.

[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

[BlueCougar]

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