A confident, even aggressive performance of an aggressive piece Scriabin has been a deep love of mine for some years now, and I can't quite understand why. The nervous energy sitting just underneath the beauty of his work--a frenetic, almost frightened energy. For me, Scriabin's work sits juuuuust barely shy of unpleasant, in that zone that keeps my finger constantly pushing "rewind", to hear again and again how he colors a mood, or his phrasing. He is my addiction!!
Lynne Perkins there is nothing aggressive, nervous, or unpleasant about this piece. I'm afraid you've misunderstood it. scriabin writes affabile as an indication of expression in measure one. this means that the piece is to be played in a pleasant manner. in the tempo marking, agevole suggests a certain ease or smoothness, no rough edges here. The grandiose gestures towards the end of the piece and the ornamented variations of the main melody are scriabin's poetic farewell to the romantic era. this piece overflows with romanticism and nostalgia, it's like a memory.
@@tigrrrsocks Listen to 3:20 and read what Lynne wrote again. Also listen to Sofronitsky's interpretation of this piece. I don't think Lynne "misunderstood", but perhaps intuited something a bit deeper. Going by his biography, Scriabin sounded like a pretty troubled guy for most of his life. I'd be surprised if that doesn't creep, subconsciously, into even music that he writes as "pleasant". Besides, affabile is an indication for the introduction of the theme, not the entire piece.
You could say the same for so many composers, but sometimes I fantasise about simply having so much music in my mind. It’s almost impossible to fathom that Scriabin wrote all the works of genius he did. Imagine a life in which such divine bliss simply pours out of your head and heart, not to mention then being able to conjure these into playable pieces for others to experience. If anythinng reaffirms my belief in something greater, its that.
2:24 is a criminally beautiful cadence and I love Semilakovs' masterly, coruscating interpretation of it; that Ab→G→F→Eb→Db→F→C melody is superlunary I'm shaking and crying rn ong
Yes it's like churning up little bits and pieces of the themes and melodies you hear throughout and letting them wash over you once more before it concludes
@@Tokoloko Both poems as in words (I’ve written 1565 poems since June 2020) as well as musical compositions (well, this is new from pretty much this year)... I really love his music, Scriabin has always been my favourite composer since I was little... a bit like love at first sight! Now I realise why, because we are both musicians and poets!
@@Tokoloko Two months on I’ve written 1929 poems now. Getting to my goal of writing 2000 poems by my first writing anniversary and publishing 4 books of poetry. After June 2021 I’ll be able to focus more on composition too.
Константин. Я возвращаюсь и снова вижу, что по тонкости восприятия и бережности прикосновения Вы - абсолютно скрябинский пианист. Ещё Вы выстраиваете фразы очень динамично - они летят, невзирая на очевидные технические трудности этой многоголосной музыки. У Вас где-либо есть запись Прелюдий опус 16? Очень хотелось бы услышать именно Вашу версию. Жуков, ученик Генриха Нейгауза, меня не убеждает! 😊
Wonderful. I thought I had heard everything by Scriabin and had all the music but missed this Op 38. Middle period where he starts to go off in another direction. A waltz with 4 notes per bar, that's Scriabin alright!
Have you encountered the hardly-performed and even more difficult to find (I've only found the music on its own and not in any anthologies) op 41 Poem? The form is an almost exact copy of the slow movement of Beethoven's Pathetique. The harmony is all Scriabin!
@@LucasPianoSalon they are not masters, they are among the pile of trash modernists that scriabin was sadly believed to be part of. Scriabin is neglected, because he, unlike all others of his time(excluding rachmaninoff), was not incompetent at all, and even exceeded chopin, bach and mozart in his mastery of music.
@@DJ-yq1jn It has no characteristic of a waltz except for the meter. It is only a waltz insofar as any piece in 3/4 is, and less so than most. Scriabin deliberately confuses the 3/4 rhythm at every opportunity with irregular tuplets and ties across bars. I don't think there's a single bar in the piece with three clear beats to a bar. How can you call that an "obvious waltz"?
It feels like Scriabin was made for me. His composition style is so similar to mine that I sometimes think that parts of his pieces are just like my own imaginations.
One of the key elements of Scriabin that makes it so recognisable is how the melody turns around the notes, the same pattern appears in all his early pieces! like in the beginning of this piece, 0:05 mib reb fa lab, or inverted which is more common, e.g the first theme of his first symphony : mi fa# re# do#...
I didn’t find the rubato unusual. This is definitely not a waltz to dance to, but is a beautiful example of the variety you can encounter under the waltz banner.
@@13kmawayfromyou39Ravel is too dissonant to listen to imo. Only two works which are complete outliers-being two of my top 10 songs-are Ondine from Gaspard, and La Valse.
@@Kokenbolls dissonance is not bad. modern composers embraced it. but if you dont like it, only his late works are dissonant. his only dissonant works i can think of are his sonatas
Any waltz that STARTS with fourths, continues with a couple of highly syncopated measures (which mak it difficult to find the beat), and then on mearsure #4, inject fifths, ain't much of a waltz!! A waltz is somethig you can naturally dance to. Sorry, Scriabin.
A confident, even aggressive performance of an aggressive piece Scriabin has been a deep love of mine for some years now, and I can't quite understand why. The nervous energy sitting just underneath the beauty of his work--a frenetic, almost frightened energy. For me, Scriabin's work sits juuuuust barely shy of unpleasant, in that zone that keeps my finger constantly pushing "rewind", to hear again and again how he colors a mood, or his phrasing. He is my addiction!!
Lynne, beautifully expressed. I share every one of your sentiments.Lynne Perkins
Thank you, Gene! It's so nice to know that I'm not completely alone! Nobody gets my obsession.
Lynne Perkins there is nothing aggressive, nervous, or unpleasant about this piece. I'm afraid you've misunderstood it. scriabin writes affabile as an indication of expression in measure one. this means that the piece is to be played in a pleasant manner. in the tempo marking, agevole suggests a certain ease or smoothness, no rough edges here. The grandiose gestures towards the end of the piece and the ornamented variations of the main melody are scriabin's poetic farewell to the romantic era. this piece overflows with romanticism and nostalgia, it's like a memory.
@@tigrrrsocks Listen to 3:20 and read what Lynne wrote again. Also listen to Sofronitsky's interpretation of this piece. I don't think Lynne "misunderstood", but perhaps intuited something a bit deeper. Going by his biography, Scriabin sounded like a pretty troubled guy for most of his life. I'd be surprised if that doesn't creep, subconsciously, into even music that he writes as "pleasant". Besides, affabile is an indication for the introduction of the theme, not the entire piece.
@@lynneperkins494 you really took the words straight out of my mind and heart, couldnt have said it more beautifully!
Who said waltzes are always meant to be danced when they can actually dance inside your mind?
YES!
The best comment
Because dance with the body is more fun, at least to me
@@juanquiroga8933 go to a club 😂
@@MarginBquarantine :(
You could say the same for so many composers, but sometimes I fantasise about simply having so much music in my mind. It’s almost impossible to fathom that Scriabin wrote all the works of genius he did. Imagine a life in which such divine bliss simply pours out of your head and heart, not to mention then being able to conjure these into playable pieces for others to experience. If anythinng reaffirms my belief in something greater, its that.
Amen to that
The way 3:08 is played I think is just incredible
It’s like a climax that anticipates the return of the theme, giving a more exciting drive to it
The child is the father of the man.
2:24 is a criminally beautiful cadence and I love Semilakovs' masterly, coruscating interpretation of it; that Ab→G→F→Eb→Db→F→C melody is superlunary I'm shaking and crying rn ong
sophisticated, elegant, beautiful
The ending, simply brilliant!
Devree Bee Ya, that whole outro section is amazing!
Only the ending? 😯😲 Every note values gold, every! So sublime, so romantic, so full of noble dreams and love! 🥰🥰🥰🥰 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Yes it's like churning up little bits and pieces of the themes and melodies you hear throughout and letting them wash over you once more before it concludes
Absolutely gorgeous piece. Really tells a happy, yet heart-wrenching story.
Выдающийся автор.
И великолепное сочинение.
И сыграно -- лучше, чем хорошо.
What lovely interpretation! I am inspired by Scriabin and started writing my own little Waltz in his style, nothing this spectacular yet!
I would be interested to see how it comes out!
@@Tokoloko Will let you know here when it’s completed! For now I am writing lots of poems!
@@SherryGrant Poems in the sense of lyrics or scriabinesque piano pieces? If the latter than I am also interested :-)
@@Tokoloko Both poems as in words (I’ve written 1565 poems since June 2020) as well as musical compositions (well, this is new from pretty much this year)... I really love his music, Scriabin has always been my favourite composer since I was little... a bit like love at first sight! Now I realise why, because we are both musicians and poets!
@@Tokoloko Two months on I’ve written 1929 poems now. Getting to my goal of writing 2000 poems by my first writing anniversary and publishing 4 books of poetry. After June 2021 I’ll be able to focus more on composition too.
I've never heard something so beautiful in my life, it's almost unbearable.
A tricky piece to play. Much harder than it looks on paper.
... Like there was anything easy about concert level piano music...
It already looks hard on paper :c
Like there was anything easy about Scriabin...
@@VictorDeVandenesse Some of his Op. 11 Preludes are surprisingly accessible. But, in general, his music is very difficult, yes.
@@flyingpenandpaper6119 Indeed, the number 15 is quite accessible. The 9 looks too.
Oh so lovely These are gems,so romantic and dramatic Thank you my Love What a beautiful thing to share all these musical treasures
Go to hell
My FAVORITE version forever!!!!!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
Константин. Я возвращаюсь и снова вижу, что по тонкости восприятия и бережности прикосновения Вы - абсолютно скрябинский пианист. Ещё Вы выстраиваете фразы очень динамично - они летят, невзирая на очевидные технические трудности этой многоголосной музыки. У Вас где-либо есть запись Прелюдий опус 16? Очень хотелось бы услышать именно Вашу версию. Жуков, ученик Генриха Нейгауза, меня не убеждает! 😊
Listen to this everyday
Wonderful. I thought I had heard everything by Scriabin and had all the music but missed this Op 38. Middle period where he starts to go off in another direction. A waltz with 4 notes per bar, that's Scriabin alright!
Have you encountered the hardly-performed and even more difficult to find (I've only found the music on its own and not in any anthologies) op 41 Poem? The form is an almost exact copy of the slow movement of Beethoven's Pathetique. The harmony is all Scriabin!
Interesting as he uses 3 bar phrasing as opposed to tradition 4 bar. A genius
@@Bruceykeys people have been doing that since the renaissance lmao
Amazing, great transitions, really helps putting this piece together.
So perfect; I want to die with Scriabin playing
Smoke gets in your eyes
Brilliant! A pity this wonderful composer is so much neglected!
Neglected?
@@LucasPianoSalon truly yes, comparing it to the catalogued Chopin or Brahms😢😊
@@nnaazzaa9746 Sadly agreed. But other masters like szymanowski and rzewski are even more neglected
@@LucasPianoSalon they are not masters, they are among the pile of trash modernists that scriabin was sadly believed to be part of. Scriabin is neglected, because he, unlike all others of his time(excluding rachmaninoff), was not incompetent at all, and even exceeded chopin, bach and mozart in his mastery of music.
@@Whatismusic123 sure buddy. he is better than bach? yes belive that all you want
Très joli et bien interpreté.
this is so beautiful 😍❤❤
wonderful!
Lovely, fantasy music.
Gorgeous af
"Waltz" hahah
Wonderfully colored piece
@@tifsa It obviously isn't.
SpaghettiToaster It’s just a very modern take.
@@DJ-yq1jn It has no characteristic of a waltz except for the meter. It is only a waltz insofar as any piece in 3/4 is, and less so than most. Scriabin deliberately confuses the 3/4 rhythm at every opportunity with irregular tuplets and ties across bars. I don't think there's a single bar in the piece with three clear beats to a bar. How can you call that an "obvious waltz"?
@@SpaghettiToaster It has all characteristics of a beautiful dance. Just try to move to it, if you know how).
People like him could not move to such beauty. Too focused on the score rather than the sounds coming from it.
Amazing
This is my favourite waltz :D
@@WEEBLLOM yeah I can definitely hear why! It's so fucking good
@@SeigneurReefShark Yes.
@@WEEBLLOM speaking of waltz, you should listen to lysenko separation waltz, it's my favorite (even if it may sound a little cliché)
@@SeigneurReefShark Even if it does sound a bit cliché, I like it, It's very charming :D
Very good!
0:49 is too eargasmic
It feels like Scriabin was made for me. His composition style is so similar to mine that I sometimes think that parts of his pieces are just like my own imaginations.
One of the key elements of Scriabin that makes it so recognisable is how the melody turns around the notes, the same pattern appears in all his early pieces! like in the beginning of this piece, 0:05 mib reb fa lab, or inverted which is more common, e.g the first theme of his first symphony : mi fa# re# do#...
美しい響き✨
浪漫派の最も進化したのがスクリャービンのピアノ曲ですね。
もっと聴きたくてチャンネル登録しました。
very good
Geil!!!!😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I love this
2:07 Scriabin references Chopin's waltz brilliant in eb major there
No he doesn't
Is it just me, or is the piano slightly flat?
Either way, great performance of a much neglected composer!
Joe Philips absolutely
It may be slightly flat, but I find it perfect for the occasion.
*meanwhile, in the land of perfect pitch
Neglected? 😯😲
Do you really mean that?! 😕😳😧
Would be hard to dance the waltz to
I do that easily, just gimmy a desk😉😁
am i deaf or does he not play the polyrythm right at the start?
0:51 i see this little bit as very lisztian
yeah typical high register run which finishes on a trill, b minor sonata, spanish rhapsody etc
It's more like sonata or fantasie rather than valse. Which i mean amazing.
Hahaha, sonata?😊
More Fantasie than sonata imo
a waltz-fantasie!
@@unnamed_boi yoooooo sup
@@Trooman20 hi there
i'm just vibing i guess
where can i find this sheet music? doesn't seem to be on amazon
Imslp
I am the 100th comment
ok filthy frank
This is the same tune as Honeysuckle Rose!
große russische Schule, Achtung!
Oh......the theme sounds like honeysuckle rose so much.....
it is written in the same language as liszt's valse impromptu
Exactly!!!
I don't see the resemblance. Scriabin's language is entirely unique.
Nice. Piano needs a little tuning though.
Could somebody tune the piano for god's sakes!
Psicodélic waltz
Some lovely playing, but the rubatos largely made no sense to me. Never quite captured the glorious waltz feel the piece could have achieved.
OMG! It is a DANCE, a dream, a memory, a nostalgia, and it is a life, through the image of Waltz! Enjoy!
I didn’t find the rubato unusual. This is definitely not a waltz to dance to, but is a beautiful example of the variety you can encounter under the waltz banner.
E flat
well... being a impressionist composer isn't that easy
I don't consider Scriabin an Impressionist. I can't see him next to Debussy and Ravel
@@pianista-mediocre i agree
dont know what happened to me a year ago
@@juicedelemon I believe Scriabin sits right in the middle between Impressionism/Modernism and Romanticism, but I don't know
@@pianista-mediocre scriabin is a true modernist. Not a fraud like his peers.
Ravel if he was a good composer.
he is a good composer.
one of the best. top 5
@@13kmawayfromyou39Ravel is too dissonant to listen to imo. Only two works which are complete outliers-being two of my top 10 songs-are Ondine from Gaspard, and La Valse.
@@Kokenbolls dissonance is not bad. modern composers embraced it. but if you dont like it, only his late works are dissonant. his only dissonant works i can think of are his sonatas
waaaay better composer than scriabin.
Any waltz that STARTS with fourths, continues with a couple of highly syncopated measures (which mak it difficult to find the beat), and then on mearsure #4, inject fifths, ain't much of a waltz!! A waltz is somethig you can naturally dance to. Sorry, Scriabin.
I mean it also starts with 3 quarters in the first measure, and is in 3/4