Flow State - Alexander Scriabin
Flow State recommends instrumental music every weekday, highlighting an artist who inspires music appreciation in this age of algorithms. If you enjoy Flow State, consider becoming a paid member – that unlocks our weekly Tuesday mixes and private Spotify playlists. Today we have a piano week guest recommendation from Michael Cirigliano II, an independent writer and arts marketer. His newsletter, Shades of Blue, explores the human stories behind classical music's most melancholy moments as a means to cultivate calm, connection, and healing. Today we're listening to Alexander Scriabin, a Russian composer and pianist. Although his early work in both fields was influenced by the lush romanticism of Frédéric Chopin, Scriabin ultimately forged new paths for his music, conjuring works of a singular artistic vision informed by his synesthesia and an obsession with the occult, mysticism, and Nietzschean philosophy. To Scriabin, music was more than an intellectual pursuit or a pleasure garden of sensory delights — it served as the portal through which we can achieve total liberation of the human spirit. Having composed almost exclusively for the solo piano and the orchestra, we can trace his artistic development across the years through his ten piano sonatas and five symphonies, the most popular of which remains his fourth, Le Poème de l'extase (The Poem of Ecstasy) — a kaleidoscopic voyage of the soul that author Henry Miller described as "all fire and air ... like a bath of ice, cocaine, and rainbows." Marc-André Hamelin - Scriabin: The Complete Piano Sonatas (150m, no vocals) Eliahu Inbal & Radio Symphony Orchestra Frankfurt - Scriabin: 3 Symphonies; Poem of Ecstasy; Poem of Fire, "Prometheus" (180m, choral vocals on track 6 and 16) Have a great Thursday.
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