Scriabin: the symphonies.

[sdtom]

such a pleasure to have you on the site.

[adriano]

Scriabin's Third Symphony, Golovanov recording:
Yes, Alan, unfortunately there are two cuts in the 2nd movement: one of 20 and another of 15 bars. In the 3rd movement there is a cut of 20 bars...
I correct what I said earlier about "original percussion" use: Golovanov adds a lot of cymbals in this Symphony too. In the 3rd movement's climaxes, for example, there are cymbals orgies!
Still, Golovanov's interpretations are really incredible and very original, also as far as some unwritten stops in-between the movements are concerned.
Cosidering the fact that such erotic/sensual and out of the world music was performed and broadcast during Stalin's last years (Soviet "Realism" was still the rule), just at the time Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Khachaturian and other "formalists" had been denounced and forbidden, one must remain quite perplex...