Ultimate poem by Scriabin, originally intended to be his Sonata No.11, but shortened for financial reasons. The philosophy behind the piece reflects Scriabin’s final and most obsessive idea: the redemption of all humanity in an apocalypse, unified into one being through a celestial fire.

The piano seems to abolish itself, slowly consuming its own sound in motives that begin as magical incantations and end in violent outbursts of flame. Scriabin would later develop this idea on a vastly larger scale in The Mystery, the ultimate synthesis of all artforms.