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From: ellis@flairvax.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Skryabin
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Date: Tue, 3-Jul-84 19:58:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul  3 19:58:51 1984
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As a Skryabin fanatic, I'd have a hard time giving a strong recommendation
to ANY orchestral work by this composer..

Somehow his `symphonies' always struck me as empty, particularly 1 and 2,
which are FRIGHTFULLY stupid! #3 (the Divine Poem) is almost good, but, like
the earlier ones, remains stuck in a very cliched and predictable
late-romantic rut (unless you're really into lotsa `ta-da's at the end..)
Only with the poems of Ecstasy/Fire does his orchestral style finally
develop a real identity. These two works have fascinating material, just1902
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