Artist: Alexander Scriabin, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Richard Giangiulio, Phillip Ruder & Donald Johanos
Album: Scriabin: Poeme De L'extase (The) (The Poem Of Ecstasy) / Piano Concerto In F Sharp Minor
Spirit,
Winged with the thirst for life,
Is drawn into flight
On the summits of negation.
There, under the rays of its dream,
Emerges a magical world
Of heavenly forms and feelings
Spirit playing.
Spirit desiring.
Spirit creating all with a dream.
Surrenders to the bliss of love.
Amid the rising creations
It dwells in languor,
From the height of inspiration
Calls them to flower.
And drunken with soaring
It is ready to sink into oblivion.
But suddenly . . .
Trembling presentiments
Of dark rhythm
Break rudely into
This enchanted world,
But only for an instant.
With light increase
Of divine will
It dispels
Frightening phantoms.
And it attained
Only desired victory
Over itself.
Spirit playing,
Spirit caressing,
Spirit calling hope of joy
Surrenders to the bliss of love.
Amid the flowers of its creation,
It lingers with a kiss
Over a whole world of titillation
Summons it to ecstasy.
Intoxicating it with beauty
It is transported, it tiptoes,
Dances and whirls;
With a whole range of sensations
It is tormented, wearied.
Ready to sink into oblivion
But again . . .
From mysterious wombs
The spirit confused
A formless host
Of savage terrors
Rises stormily
In menacing waves;
It threatens
All to submerge.
Spirit,
Winged with the thirst for life,
Is drawn into flight
On the summits of negation.
There, under the rays of its dream,
Emerges a magical world
Of heavenly forms and feelings.
Spirit playing,
Spirit suffering,
Spirit creating grief by doubt
Succumbs to love's torment
Mid the flowers of its creations
It lingers in torment,
With whole earth shakings,
Calls them to death.
Seized with fear,
It is ready to sink into oblivion
But then . . .
Bright presentiments
Of shining rhythms
Awake within it.
Sweet moment!
With rays of hope
Radiant again
It burns for life.
And marvelously attained
Is the power
Of divine will.
It pierces
The dark abysses
With glowing glances,
It shouts with rage
And fury . . .
The battle blazes.
Yawning caverns
Of monster mouths
Flash menacingly
Passionate lightning streaks
Of divine will,
All-conquering;
Radiant reflections
Of magical light
Illuminate the world.
Spirit,
Forgetting the beloved goal,
Drunkenly yields the struggle.
All enraptured,
Fully delighted
With free
Godlike play
The struggle of love.
In the divine loftiness
Of pure aimlessness,
In combining
Opposing desires
In single awareness,
One love.
Spirit learns
Its divine essence.
It knows that
Which desired struggle;
It desires only,
And events
Assembled round
This wish
In harmonious order
Capricious emotion.
Spirit,
Playing, changing
Vibrates the universe
Explaining
Affirming.
Desirous of victories,
It was victorious,
It is triumphant!
And to its beloved realm,
Joyous, it can return now.
But what darkens
The glorious moment?
ALAS!
IT HAS ATTAINED ITS PURPOSE.
It longs for past struggle.
Instantly it feels
Boredom, melancholy and emptiness.
But with thirst of life,
Again it is winged
Is drawn into flight
On the summits of negation.
There, under the rays of its dream
Emerges a magical world
Of heavenly forms and feelings.
And tormented by nothing
It can eternally
Surrender to
Favored dreaming
But why, O rebellious Spirit,
Again is Thy rest perturbed?
No disturbing rhythm
Overshadows Thee,
No dreadful phantoms
Haunt.
Only monotony's
Infecting poison,
The maggot of satiety
Devours feeling
With sickly cry
The universe resounds:
Something else!
The new!
Wearied of pleasure
Worn with pleasure
But not with life,
Spirit lifts into flight
To the kingdoms of grief and suffering.
And in its free return
To the world of dream and of excitement
It comprehended miraculously
The idea of evil's
Mysterious abysses.
Again the dark caverns
Gape open
Again the mouths threaten to swallow
Again battle,
The girding of will
The wish to conquer all.
Again victory, again intoxication,
And rapture
And satiety.
With this increasing rhythm
Beats the pulse of stronger life!
O my world, my life,
My blossoming, my ecstasy!
Your moments each by each
I create by negation
Of earlier experience.
I am forever
Negation
Again and
Ever anew!
More powerful
More tender,
New torture,
Fresh beatitude.
Delighting in this dance,
Choking in its vortex.
Unmindful of goals
Beloved aspirations
Spirit surrenders to playful
drunkenness.
On powerful wings
It speeds
Into realms of new discovery
Of Ecstasy.
In this endless change,
In this purposeless, godlike flight
Spirit comprehends itself
By its might of will.
Alone, free
Ever-creating.
All-illuminating
All-lifegiving
Divine play
In multiplicity of forms:
It knows itself
As the palpitation of life,
The wish to burgeon
In the struggle of love.
Spirit playing
Spirit fluttering
By its enduring longing
Creating Ecstasy
Gives itself up to Love's thrill
Mid the flowers of its creations
It lives in freedom.
"I summon you to life,
Hidden longings!
You, sunken
In the somber depths
Of creative spirit,
You timid embryos
Of life,
To you I bring
Daring!
Now, you are free!
Fragment and flower
Separately
Rise up one against another
Flee to the summits
That in sweetest bliss
You may know all your oneness
Annihilated within me!
Rise up one against another,
Strike against me,
Negate your love!
Turn against me, all people and
elements,
All horrors lift up your heads
Try to destroy me,
Caverns of dragons' mouths
Serpents twist round me
Constrict me and bite me!
When all rises
Against me,
Then I begin
My
Play.
O waiting world,
Weary world!
You are thirsting to be created
You see the creator.
Your tender sweet sigh,
Calling
Has been wafted to me.
I will come.
Already I dwell in you
O world of mine!
With mysterious delights
Of unknown feelings,
With myriads of dream and vision,
With inspiration's flame
With Truth seeking,
With the forbidden wish
Of divine freedom.
O my beloved world,
I shall come.
Your dream of me
Is being born
It is I.
Already I am manifest
In mysterious presence
A barely perceptible
Breath of freedom.
Lightly,
A wisp of dream
The wave
Of my being
Has already seized you.
You are quivering already
I am your beloved freedom,
You my beloved world!
I am come
To dazzle you
With the marvel
Of enchantment repeated;
I bring you
The magical shiver
Of scorching love
And unimaginable caresses.
Surrender to me in all faith!
I will drown you in oceans of bliss
And beloved kisses
And great heaving waves
But in our remoteness playing
Only the spray
Envelopes you
And you insanely desire
Something else!
The new!
And then in torrents of flowers
I will lie upon you
With aromas and scents
I will bask languidly
In this play of fragrance
Now tender, now sharp
In the play of touches,
Now soft, now harsh
And sinking into passion
You will
Again and
Ever again!
Then I will plunge
With a horde of fearsome monsters
With savage torment and terror
I will crawl upon you with venomous
nests of snakes
And will bite and choke you!
And you will want me
More madly, more passionately.
Then I will lie upon you
Under rays of celestial suns
And you will burn with the fires
Of my emotion
The holy
Flames of desire
For the sweetest,
The most forbidden,
Most mysterious.
And all of you is a single wave
Of liberty and joy.
Multiplicity has created you.
Legions of feelings
Have elevated you
O pure desires,
I create you,
This complex unity
This feeling of bliss
Seizing you completely.
I am the instant illuminating eternity
I am the affirmation.
I am Ecstasy."
The universe
Is embraced in flames
Spirit at the summit of its being
Feels
Endless tides
Of divine power
Of free will
Emboldened,
That which menaced
Is now seduction.
That which frightened
Is now pleasure.
And the bites of panther and hyena
Are new caresses
And the serpent's sting
Is but a burning kiss.
And thus the universe resounds
With a joyful cry
I AM!
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