A. Scriabin : The Poem of Ecstasy - Le Poème de l’Extase op. 54 (Boulez)

Here you will find probably the most ecstatic music on earth : Alexander Scriabin’s “Poem of Ecstasy“ op. 54 also known as his 4th symphony. It is like a long symphonic poem of about 20 minutes composed on a long (about 8 pages) epic-like poem wich Scriabin wrote himself. It tells the long course of the spirit through the space, liberated from the human body (like in the “Übermensch“ theory of Friederich Nietzsche). This is the version of Pierre Boulez with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which is not my