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SCRIABIN: SYMPHONY NO. 3. TCHAIKOVSKY: “ROMEO AND JULIET.” Riccardo Muti conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. EMI CDC 7-49115-2 (compact disc).

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Scriabin’s peculiar philosophic romanticism, out of style by the time of his death in 1915, is drawing new admirers today. Muti’s version of “The Divine Poem,” as the symphony is called, is rich and varied, though a bit short on impassioned spontaneity. A solid “Romeo” completes the resonantly recorded disc.

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