Until he went 'a little crazy' (with his Poème de l'extase and Prométhée, le Poème du feu -- still amazing and highly engaging works) his earlier symphonies, the piano concerto, etc. are pretty banal and forgettable late romantic blah-blah blasé stuff.
MuseDuCafe They are fantastic works in my opinion. Each to their own of course but it is objectively false to say that Scriabin’s music - even his earlier romantic stuff - was ever banal and forgettable. He has always had a unique musical voice - it simply took shape as he got older.
Listen o the 2nd part of this symphony attentively. You'll hear not only the rhythm of swing, but also the scale of blues in this music. Created in 1901.
In early 1969, I was sitting in my 1968 Mustang, waiting for a rehearsal, listening to KFAC-LA. This magnificent work began and so also began a 50-year-plus love affair with a work (I went to Tower Records the next day and bought the LP) that is one of my all-time favorites.
I'm glad no much people knows Scriabin, that means we have sort of a privilege. This is away from the hands of cultural engineers, this is pure, and its ours!
I know what you mean. There are artists I love that are probably the best in the world, and completely unknown to the average music listener. It is a nice feeling, not just some ego thing but rather like you said, they remain unspoiled by the swamp that is popular culture and popular awareness.
I love Scriabin's earlier mainstream works like the symphonies and the first 4 piano sonatas. It's really too bad he had to go off the deep end later on and try to be avante gard as if that mattered to anybody then or now - they all thought they had to do it to be relevant....ridiculous!
Peter Edwards: I love both early and late Scriabin. But later works, approaching atonality, are the more original and unique. Your comment is "ridiculous", not the marvellous music of the mature Scriabin, with all its divine beauty, daring innovations and soaring spirituality. Open your ears, your heart, your mind!
Some people just cannot stomach dissonance of any kind, can they. I wonder if when they're watching a horror movie they get mad because the soundtrack is not in major.
this is the best rendition you can find. The one proposed by Naxos on CD has not the same artistic and recording quality. This old Philips recording sound better and the direction is great
Alex - Scriabin is my favourite composer. I don't think any famous composer did better in the late romantic tradition. He "went off the deep end" when he decided to abandon that tradition for the avant garde - he invented his own system, I guess they all thought they had to do something like that. I wish there was more of the early Scriabin, but of what there is I love the symphonies, the piano concerto, the first 5 piano sonatas, sundry other works like the piano fantasy opus 28. Szidon and Lettberg play nice versions of Opus 28 on TH-cam.
Alexander Scriabin was a weirdly delusional man who wrote some of the most sublime music on earth. The deposed archangel Lucifer was the chief musician of the universe, and he knows well how to inspire composers. Scriabin is a prime example of this.
I suspect there's no evidence to back up your thoughts about lucifer, but I agree that Scriabin's music is an incredible highlight of human artistic potential.
Scriabin was a student of Theosophy, the teachings of the adept H.P. Blavatsky, and his later years in life and artistic output were consumed by this philosophy of the Universe. In saying that, not all definitions are the same as what the Cristians define Lucifer. Here are some of them: It was Gregory the Great who was the first to apply this passage of Isaiah, 'How art thou fallen from Heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning,' etc., to Satan, and ever since the bold metaphor of the prophet, which referred, after all, but to an Assyrian king inimical to the Israelites, has been applied to the Devil.[3] However, in the book of Revelation we find the same word applied to Jesus: I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.[4] In the same book, Jesus says he will give "the morning star" to "the one who is victorious and does my will".[5] In his Notes on the New Testament, Albert Barnes comments: The "morning star" is that bright planet--Venus--which at some seasons of the year appears so beautifully in the east, leading on the morning--the harbinger of the day. It is one of the most beautiful objects in nature, and is susceptible of a great variety of uses for illustration. It appears as the darkness passes away; it is an indication that the morning comes; it is intermingled with the first rays of the light of the sun; it seems to be a herald to announce the coming of that glorious luminary; it is a pledge of the faithfulness of God.[6]
Appreciate this pieces in the Scriabin late style! th-cam.com/video/mz5lSLvuUSc/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/nEOSPz9gB9s/w-d-xo.html This year, January 6 marked the 150th anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin. He is the person closest to me and beloved by me in the whole world of art, a composer who immerses with his magical music into the worlds of "the highest refinement and the highest grandeur." Having deeply passed through all his work, I learned to thoroughly reproduce the elements of the Scriabin style. In particular, the style of the works of his late creative period, sounding extraordinary, otherworldly, mystical... Using specific means, first of all harmony (as well as texture and tempo), I can "scriabe" any piece, melody or motive accordingly, without changing at all or almost without changing the notes of the melodic line of the original. And despite the fact that in this case I didn't even change a single note of the melody of the original holiday song "Happy birthday to you" th-cam.com/video/nEOSPz9gB9s/w-d-xo.html , in the end it sounds completely different: now it's not a "home holiday", but the image of a nervous-impetuous strong-willed flame characteristic of Scriabin! Also I "enchanted" the famous Christmas song "Jingle bells" th-cam.com/video/mz5lSLvuUSc/w-d-xo.html into a figurative sphere characteristic of Scriabin: now it is the most refined cosmic longing, gradually ecstatically excited, and then melting away...
![Scriabin - Piano Concerto in F sharp minor, op. 20 (Vladimir Ashkenazy/Maazel) [Complete]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ylSrzlphVq0/mqdefault.jpg)
Until he went 'a little crazy' (with his Poème de l'extase and Prométhée, le Poème du feu -- still amazing and highly engaging works) his earlier symphonies, the piano concerto, etc. are pretty banal and forgettable late romantic blah-blah blasé stuff.
so forgettable that you left a comment about it.
( by the way, i usually cancel a stupid comment, but my reply was so good that i decided to leave it)
MuseDuCafe They are fantastic works in my opinion. Each to their own of course but it is objectively false to say that Scriabin’s music - even his earlier romantic stuff - was ever banal and forgettable. He has always had a unique musical voice - it simply took shape as he got older.
Listen o the 2nd part of this symphony attentively. You'll hear not only the rhythm of swing, but also the scale of blues in this music. Created in 1901.
In early 1969, I was sitting in my 1968 Mustang, waiting for a rehearsal, listening to KFAC-LA. This magnificent work began and so also began a 50-year-plus love affair with a work (I went to Tower Records the next day and bought the LP) that is one of my all-time favorites.
I'm glad no much people knows Scriabin, that means we have sort of a privilege. This is away from the hands of cultural engineers, this is pure, and its ours!
I know what you mean.
There are artists I love that are probably the best in the world, and completely unknown to the average music listener. It is a nice feeling, not just some ego thing but rather like you said, they remain unspoiled by the swamp that is popular culture and popular awareness.
0:00 Andante
7:48 Allegro
17:46 Andante
33:02 Tempestoso
39:00 Maestoso
Noch nie gehört,aber tolle Musik
not enough people know Scriabin
+Andrew Kosinski ... OF COURSE ... i think the same thing ! Scriabine is a dangerous master in classical music !
+Yves Gerard ..............interesting--why do you say "dangerous"? Is it because of his "mental" or "emotional" issues?
Sapere Aude No , just because He is a Great Master ( " dangerous " for the others ... ) !
I love Scriabin's earlier mainstream works like the symphonies and the first 4 piano sonatas. It's really too bad he had to go off the deep end later on and try to be avante gard as if that mattered to anybody then or now - they all thought they had to do it to be relevant....ridiculous!
Peter Edwards: I love both early and late Scriabin. But later works, approaching atonality, are the more original and unique. Your comment is "ridiculous", not the marvellous music of the mature Scriabin, with all its divine beauty, daring innovations and soaring spirituality. Open your ears, your heart, your mind!
Wunderbares Werk - weshalb nicht öfters mal im Konzertsaal.
Excellent execution
una maravillosa obra que merece ser más conocida. La ejecución de Inbal magnífica.
He escuchado la mayoría de sus composiciones, pero no sé porque siempre me quedo dormida escuchando esta, además duermo muy bien.
Some people just cannot stomach dissonance of any kind, can they. I wonder if when they're watching a horror movie they get mad because the soundtrack is not in major.
Context is key. Dissonance for its own sake is pointless without context.
this is the best rendition you can find. The one proposed by Naxos on CD has not the same artistic and recording quality. This old Philips recording sound better and the direction is great
Who's the painter of the first picture? I love this kind of surrealism, it's so stimulating!
+Francisco Pinto the info under the video says "graphic elaboration by ozo shatranj"
+Francisco Pinto www.flickr.com/photos/96716208@N07/
Its not a picture but a photo of Mars by Nasa ROFL...Scriabin, one of the greatest before he went off the deep end
How did he go off the deep end? Just curious, I realize I could probably find the answer through my own research
Alex - Scriabin is my favourite composer. I don't think any famous composer did better in the late romantic tradition. He "went off the deep end" when he decided to abandon that tradition for the avant garde - he invented his own system, I guess they all thought they had to do something like that. I wish there was more of the early Scriabin, but of what there is I love the symphonies, the piano concerto, the first 5 piano sonatas, sundry other works like the piano fantasy opus 28. Szidon and Lettberg play nice versions of Opus 28 on TH-cam.
46:54 Absolutely gorgeous, i´d like to extend more in duration the tension of this final motiv...
It is performances like this, that inspired the creation of the Scriabin appreciation society (anscriabin.com). Really wonderful performance.
17:42 Andante
🌸🌸🌸
📍33:32
2📍16:03
17:46
26:55 - 29:28 gahd damn
Alexander Scriabin was a weirdly delusional man who wrote some of the most sublime music on earth. The deposed archangel Lucifer was the chief musician of the universe, and he knows well how to inspire composers. Scriabin is a prime example of this.
I suspect there's no evidence to back up your thoughts about lucifer, but I agree that Scriabin's music is an incredible highlight of human artistic potential.
Always interested in this particular subject... :)
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he vast majority of classical works inspires man's higher side---hence Lucifer's influence is relegated to the debased and inferior.
Scriabin was a student of Theosophy, the teachings of the adept H.P. Blavatsky, and his later years in life and artistic output were consumed by this philosophy of the Universe. In saying that, not all definitions are the same as what the Cristians define Lucifer. Here are some of them:
It was Gregory the Great who was the first to apply this passage of Isaiah, 'How art thou fallen from Heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning,' etc., to Satan, and ever since the bold metaphor of the prophet, which referred, after all, but to an Assyrian king inimical to the Israelites, has been applied to the Devil.[3]
However, in the book of Revelation we find the same word applied to Jesus:
I, Jesus, have sent my angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, and the bright Morning Star.[4]
In the same book, Jesus says he will give "the morning star" to "the one who is victorious and does my will".[5] In his Notes on the New Testament, Albert Barnes comments:
The "morning star" is that bright planet--Venus--which at some seasons of the year appears so beautifully in the east, leading on the morning--the harbinger of the day. It is one of the most beautiful objects in nature, and is susceptible of a great variety of uses for illustration. It appears as the darkness passes away; it is an indication that the morning comes; it is intermingled with the first rays of the light of the sun; it seems to be a herald to announce the coming of that glorious luminary; it is a pledge of the faithfulness of God.[6]
Appreciate this pieces in the Scriabin late style! th-cam.com/video/mz5lSLvuUSc/w-d-xo.html
and th-cam.com/video/nEOSPz9gB9s/w-d-xo.html
This year, January 6 marked the 150th anniversary of the Birth of Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin. He is the person closest to me and beloved by me in the whole world of art, a composer who immerses with his magical music into the worlds of "the highest refinement and the highest grandeur." Having deeply passed through all his work, I learned to thoroughly reproduce the elements of the Scriabin style. In particular, the style of the works of his late creative period, sounding extraordinary, otherworldly, mystical...
Using specific means, first of all harmony (as well as texture and tempo), I can "scriabe" any piece, melody or motive accordingly, without changing at all or almost without changing the notes of the melodic line of the original.
And despite the fact that in this case I didn't even change a single note of the melody of the original holiday song "Happy birthday to you" th-cam.com/video/nEOSPz9gB9s/w-d-xo.html
, in the end it sounds completely different: now it's not a "home holiday", but the image of a nervous-impetuous strong-willed flame characteristic of Scriabin!
Also I "enchanted" the famous Christmas song "Jingle bells" th-cam.com/video/mz5lSLvuUSc/w-d-xo.html into a figurative sphere characteristic of Scriabin: now it is the most refined cosmic longing, gradually ecstatically excited, and then melting away...
lucifer the chief musician? you must diggin much.more ......