Symphony no. 1 in E major, op. 26 / Prometheus, op. 60

Album by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin & Stockholm Philharmonic Choir & Kungliga Filharmonikerna & Leif Segerstam

This release is an album of orchestral works by Alexander Scriabin, comprising a symphony completed in 1899–1900 and a later orchestral poem completed in 1910. Musically it traces Scriabin's shift from late-Romantic orchestral writing with rich, sonorous textures to a more idiosyncratic, colouristic harmonic language that employs his so-called "mystic chord" and expanded chromaticism, signalling his move towards the mystical, harmonically adventurous idiom of his later works within early 20th-century developments.