{"id":1612,"date":"2019-10-09T17:55:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/2019\/10\/09\/rueckkehr-zu-scriabin-in-koeln\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T17:56:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:56:46","slug":"rueckkehr-zu-scriabin-in-koeln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/2019\/10\/09\/rueckkehr-zu-scriabin-in-koeln\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to Scriabin in Cologne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last season Dmitrij Kitajenko began a cycle with Scriabin\u2019s symphonies played by the G\u00fcrzenich Orchestra at Cologne&#8217;s Philharmonie. On October 27, 28 and 29 he returns to two other works by Scriabin, the Piano Concerto and the Second Symphony, preceded by Prokofiev&#8217;s First symphony, the so-called Classical.<\/p>\n<p>Scriabin composed his Second Symphony in 1901. It was first performed in St Petersburg under Anatol Lyadov in January 1902. It is still a rather conventional symphony with quite a romantic character, much more restrained than extravagant works like Divine Poem or Prometheus. Yet, when Vassily Safonov, conductor of the New York Philharmonic from 1903 to 1919, conducted Scriabin&#8217;s Second Symphony for the first time, he waved the score at the orchestra and said, &#8220;Here is the new Bible, gentlemen&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Funny enough, it was Safonov who banned Scriabin\u2019s works during his NY tenure, after the composer abandoned his wife to live with his mistress Tatiana Fyodorovna Schloezer. Safonov was a good friend of Scriabin&#8217;s first wife and took her side against the composer.<\/p>\n<p>The soloist in the Piano Concerto is Gerhard Oppitz of whom Dmitrij Kitajenko says: &#8220;He\u2019s an exceptional personality and an outstanding musician. We\u2019re on the same wavelength, both as people and as artists; I appreciate him as one of my best partners on stage.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last season Dmitrij Kitajenko began a cycle with Scriabin\u2019s symphonies played by the G\u00fcrzenich Orchestra at Cologne&#8217;s Philharmonie. On October 27, 28 and 29 he returns to two other works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kitajenko.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}