Alexander Scriabin - Deux Poèmes, Op. 71

- Composer: Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 -- 27 April 1915) - Performer: Joseph Villa - Year of recording: 1986 Deux Poèmes {Two Poems} Op. 71, written in 1914. 00:00 - 1. Fantastique 01:33 - 2. En rêvant, avec une grande douceur Among the qualities of the fine, late works of Scriabin is the coincidental similarity the musical language has to that of early Alban Berg, particularly in the first poem of Op. 71, entitled “Fantastique.“ These works share a nocturnal warmth that is not heard anywhere else, except perhaps in passages from the works of Mahler and Schoenberg. Of course, Scriabin’s Russian heritage was bound to point his interests toward France, which held sway over the higher cultural norms of Russia throughout the nineteenth century. There are hints of the early Debussy in the second poem, entitled “En rêvant,“ a sort of clenched take on the French composer’s first book of Images, overshadowing the Berg quality of the first poem. Both poems together stand out as a highpoint in t