Scriabin’s Poem of Fire

May 12, 2023

Last night saw the staging of Scriabin’s Poem of Fire for the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall at the South Bank in London. The piece when performed with light is rare and always an event, this revival included the additional handwritten notes made on the Paris score, annotations from Scriabin after the original performances in Moscow and New York. Many thanks to Tristan Tereszczuk, Vera Ugarova and Sam Ohlsson for their help in all the detail of the production. Thanks also to Stephen Buck, Kenneth Chong and all the team at the Philharmonia. And lastly to the invaluable support of Trent Kim and research of Anna Gawboy.

Here is a small interview from the Philharmonia website for yesterday’s performance.

Prometheus Poem of Fire - The Royal Festival HallThe Philharmonia Orchestra - Stanislav KochanovskyComposer - Alexander ScriabinLighting - Simon BennisonPhotography - Mark Allan (Philharmonia Orchestra)

Photographs copyright Mark Allan for the Philharmonia Orchestra, with thanks to Katie Vickers.