IGOR ZHUKOV plays SCRIABIN Recital (1980)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 2024
- STUDIO RECORDING 1980 - 00:00 - 5 Préludes Op.16
08:46 - Polonaise Op.21 - 16:23 Valse Op.38
23:04 4 Pièces Op.51 (1. Fragilité 2. Prélude 3. Poème ailé 4. Danse du tourment)
30:36 3 Etudes Op.65 (1. Allegretto Fantastico 2. Allegretto 3. Molto vivace)
38:27 Vers la flamme Op.72 - เพลง
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I heard him play Scriabin twice - in a little town in Germany in the 80ies ... I was fascinated - after the wonderful performance in the townhall I accidentally had the chance to stay together with him and a small group of skrjabin-addicts - smoking was allowed in public places at that time - the excellent pianist Igor Zhukov was a real hard smoker - we talked in English, he was a very sympathetic and modest man. I will never forget these hours - equipped with his records I returned home late at night - with an unforgettable experience!
Other interpretations of Skjabin's piano compositions did not touch me the same way his work touched me - I still am one of his greatest fans.
pianotreasures - thank you for posting!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful anecdote.
It was such a great experience for you. What a privilege!
@@carlosparedesa Yes, you are right - I am very proud to have made his acquaintance - decades ago ...
As I had bought his LP-record there (CDs were not used generally yet) - I could enjoy his interpretation of Skrjabin as often as I liked ... thanks for your friendly commentary ...
I fell in love with his Scriabin,s interpretations as soon as I heard it the first time here in this channel. Thank you for posting it.
LadyArt123 -- Remarkable assignation! Zhukov has the same Severity as Richter....they must have taught one another. BRAVO from Acapulco!
This is for sure one of the best solo piano albums on TH-cam.
This pianist is underrated. What a pianist.
I agree 😀
One of the absolute greatest, and definitely the greatest Scriabin interpreter and the dreamiest of all pianists, I've been obsessed with him ever since I listened to his Scriabin.
@@hassansoliman970He is certainly the greatest Scriabin interpreter I've heard so far.
One of the best Scriabin I´ve heard. I think I´m in heaven...Scriabin is a god of the music.
The great Igor Zhukov. He had few peers in Scriabin. And what an incredible Bechstein.
The best Scriabin interpretation on TH-cam. It's a pity he didn't record all Scriabin works. 🎉🎉❤❤❤
You know he at least has all the sonatas as well, right? There is a great TH-cam video with all of them in good quality.
@@mysterium364Thanks. I will search for them right now. I wish he had recorded all Scriabin preludes and poems. 🎉❤
Outstanding performance. I don't think I've heard other renowned pianists, said to be Scriabin specialists, play like this EVER.
Instead of repeating what others have said, I'd like to note that Igor has a dope af drip. Those tonal embroidered stripes on the shirt, with the balanced statement of the cufflinks? Diagonal tie pattern of stripes of varying size and color, subtle modernist flair? The tie bar finishing touch?
Yes, after watching this video I can say... I'm impressed by Zhukov.
Very impressed.
But to start repeating others, this is one of my favorite piano tones ever. Rich. Warm. Resonant. But still has the treble sparkle you need for Scriabin.
And the interpretation...
Bravo, Igor. Bravo.
Brilliant version of Vers la Flamme. Preludes very beautiful, the first especially sensitive and touching. The Polonaise very powerful. A tremendous pianist, should be better known. And Scriabin of course is -- amazing. Maybe only in recent years getting his full credit. !!
Mit ihm hab ich zum ersten mal Die "Jahreszeiten" von Tschaikovskij gehört.Und seitdem hat es für mich die beste Interpretation geblieben.
An ethereal, relaxing, melodic interpretation. If you are not familiar with Scriabin's works, this will make you a believer. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.
Beyond belief, these recordings are. I haven’t heard such a magical recording of the valse op 38 as this one. Magical, ....
Спасибо,Вам!
Хоть лет мне немало,но
я учусь слушать и слышать музыку Скрябина.
Хорошо, что помощник
мне в этом такой выдающийся пианист.
22.12.2020.
Igor Zhukov's performance is not only pensive and charming, but also technically 'correct' in every aspect, as well as, thoroughly Russian. I've enjoyed listening to what I would call his transcendent execution over and over again. It is a monumental recording and serves as a model for my own performances of these unique pieces. I'm very grateful for this particular posting. Thank you.
The virtuosity of this man is utterly beyond ordinary words in my opinion in all his playing of many Russian composers. 👏
He has a mean Ravel Toccata as well! Student of H. Neuhaus and Gilels. He carries a powerful legacy.
How come I'm only discovering this pianist now. He's awesome !!
An OUTSTANDING pianist! Love the way he performs and interprets Scriabin. A beautiful pianist!
After 2 evenings just last week in Berlinf oall the 10 Sonatas, that a privilege in itself!, here I hear what is inherent in this unique music and...alas, what was missing in May 2022.....
-- Lumineux, incandescent. --
Prelude Opus 16 no 1 is so beautifully and perfectly played!
I was very moved by these interpretations, like I was with his recording of a Franck transcription years back. Thank you for sharing! An outstanding representative of the Russian piano school.
The finest Scriabin playing ever recorded.
So true !
the first piece, prelude is played fazinating deep, inspirated
What an excellent touch and control of dynamics! Wonderful performance!
Timbre magnifique,très gde humilité poétique
Horowitz- Sofronitzky - Igor Zhukow :
For me the 3great " sacred interpretes" of Skrjabin! ...Wonderful fresh and powerfull studiorecording ! Thanx for posting!
I don't know why people say they like Horowitz' playing of Scriabin. To me, Horowitz' Vers La Flamme sounds like a fish flopping on the keys.
I love horowitz as a person but cant bring myself to like his playing unfortunately
Лучший исполнитель Скрябина,для меня.
A russian friend gave me a recording of Zhukov years ago, still one of my favourite Scriabin interpreters.
I ve also read somewhere he was a great audio engineer.
Beautiful, beautiful....beautiful.
Thanks so much for posting, this recording is absolutely stunning !
such a poetic touch, how very beautiful, thank you
Rhapsodic, intimate, warm - magnificent.
This recording stands up to unlimited re-listening. The perfect blend of the elegant, the erotic, and the ecstatic.
Hace al rededor de 3 o 4 años escuché por primera vez las interpretaciones de Zhukov y desde entonces considero que es de los pianistas que más logra traspasar la sensibilidad de Scriabin al piano. Transmite sensibilidad y emoción al tocar dichas obras que no todos los pianistas contemporáneos logran, por ejemplo, la interpretación del Prelude op 16 No 2 es la mejor que he escuchado por lejos hasta el día de hoy.
A fabulous tone. I love it!
Horowitz was convinced that this composer was touched in the head, yet he indefatigably championed his piano works. High kudos to Maestro Zhukov!
One of my favourite recordings; such emotion in Zhukov's playing!
Impecable interpretación!!!
What I like about Zhukov is that it's all decided. You might be cynical and think that he plays this way (less "impressively" than other pianists) because that's how he can play - to his limitations. But that's not the case. If he decides to he can nail one million notes a minute and make them either slick (Medtner Concerto) or turn them into a soundscape (Scriabin Fantasy). He doesn't get hung up on making everything in a 3 or 4-stave Scriabin score prominent. You have to decide what should come out and what there just isn't time to emphasise. Zhukov decides: and what he does bring out has a concentration of tone, flow and pedalling which is just "fuck you, this is how I read it". I sometimes disagree with the score in front of me: but then it's up to me to become as good a pianist as him!
I was crying like a little girl
+Vitaliy Romantsov me too
it's magic
Zhukov was a fantastic pianist - the old russia school!
A great pianist indeed!!
BRAVO...
Inspiration !!👍
Beautiful! Thank you for posting!
Thank you for upload.
wonderful
fantastic
Гениальная запись!
I am practising hard for my own recordings of these pieces... now that I’ve found the ideal sound for these pieces! And the flow of Sofronitsky... both so inspiring!
Did you ever record them? I would love to hear! I have listened to hundreds of hours of Scriabin and I always love to hear new recordings.
@@mysterium364 I have recorded about 20 of his pieces. And in Nov 2022 I performed an online concert, with 40 pieces by Scriabin! Apparently 15.4K people listened live haha…
Magia.
Fabulous
Che bello, che bravo.
спасибо большое - в поддержку программы
Blagodaram!
Igor reminds me a little of Harry Dean Stanton in this photo.
Also of the colossal playwright Samuel Beckett.....but Igor plays perfection in music
He also reminds of Jerome Flynn from "Ripper Street" :-)
It's a pity these Scriabin's recordings are nowhere to be found except on TH-cam.
Pity indeed :( these are rare gems, so beautiful I couldn't even think of words to describe how I feel listening to them.
Odd, since they were published by Melodiya, which was state-operated. Seems like that stuff should all be pretty mainstream, even in the west.
Sin duda: mi disco favorito.
Sublime !
Zhukov is the REAL deal. Check out his G major Tchaikovsky Concerto for the (for me) definitive performance of THAT work.
🙏
Earth (hell) transcended... so close to (fourth) heaven
Thank you for your comment.
Yes, Scriabin is a god of music. Not only his piano compositions but mainly his vision of art and poetical meaning of life as a synestesic world as we can enjoy in the Poem of Ecstasy and other symphonic pieces. Genius.Zhukov captures it all in his repetitions, strong and raptures.Wow!
Vladimir Sofronitsky - Scriabin Recital
После Скрябина в жанре фортепиано все остальные композиторы мне кажутся,, пресноватыми"!😀
I want to order this CD album but I can't find it, if somebody could help me.
Sehr beeindruckt
Как жаль.....
bechstein ?
could be ... it sounds quite a bit like mine, especially the op 16 preludes
2:52
Scriabin may have been slightly mad (or maybe not), but his music is oddly compulsive.
თუ აქ ხარ შემეხმიანე.
The Bolsheviks, Lenin and Stalin, suppressed Scriabin's music as individualistic. I guess the latter Soviets resurrected his music, maybe a precursor to Glasnost, Perestroika and the downfall of the U.S.S.R.
>The Bolsheviks, Lenin and Stalin, suppressed Scriabin's music as individualistic.
That is your own nonsense and ignorance, only.
@@Queeen7q Please excuse me, smug one. If you are so damn smart and knowledgeable, why not edify me instead of being an asshole about it?
When? Scriabin died before the revolution. I always heard that he was not popular after death. From my knowledge, there wasn't much around to suppress. Also, the Scriabin museum was founded in 1922, and Lenin died in 1924. There was work there on a high-tech synthesizer while Stalin was still in power. Why would that have been allowed if Scriabin's music was supposed to be suppressed?
@@mysterium364 There was Scriabin's music and any notion to perform it to suppress, even though he died before the revolution and wasn't popular. Suppressing it was a matter of principle to the Soviets.
Maybe Lenin and Stalin loved his music even though it was suppressed, and in spite of principle. Don't know. The Soviets ran a strange, chaotic, contradictory and violent regime anyway.
@@mikekevitt1322 What principle? I know they suppressed the avant-garde under the pretext of anti-elitism (a decision that I think was made in error by a well-meaning government) but I don't think Scriabin was really considered Avant-Garde by the time this suppression started (late 1920's if I remember correctly) because even Roslavets was able to innovate freely for a while after Scriabin died, and to an untrained ear, Scriabin sounds very traditional relative to Roslavets.
If you know a book about musical suppression in the early years of the USSR, I would probably read it. Sounds interesting and I don't know much.
Perfect