Repertoire: The Essential Scriabin

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  @ManuManu-lm6xh · 5 years ago

  As Richter said, talking about Sofronitsky as ideal interpreter of Scriabin: “Scriabin isn't the sort of composer whom you'd regard as your daily bread, but is a heady liqueur on which you can get drunk periodically, a poetical drug, a crystal that's easily broken.”

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• GO

  @gottfriedfliedl2614 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Made my day: „Messiaen without the birds“....

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• VU

  @VuykArie · 5 years ago

  Thanks for this talk! You inspired me to write a concerto for kazoo and orchestra. In five movements, duration 60 minutes.

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• SA

  @samaritan29 · 5 years ago

  Alexander Scriabin (who is a vastly underrated composer by the way) is interesting in that most of everything in his oeuvre (with the exception of his early pieces which betray an influence of chopin) are masterpieces, a true descendant of post wagnerian harmonies -  Its astonishing to think what he would've accomplished had he lived longer..

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• KA

  @kamerarosak · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAzWehGayeA&amp;t=252">4:12</a> &quot;He sounds like Chopin on crack.&quot; 😂

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• ED

  @edwardbak4459 · 4 years ago

  For me the greatest of all Scriabin pianists will always be Sofronitsky. <br>He defies gravity, the color and imagination of his interpretations are a beacon to all others. And even though the highest level of virtuosity is required to get this music off the ground in Sofronitsky’s playing it is secondary to the music. <br>A very close second is Joseph Villa. <br>Feverish, fantastic, virtuosity to burn - really marvelous.

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• MA

  @magnusrger9061 · 5 years ago

  You briefly mentioned &apos;Mysterium&apos;, Scriabins unfinished megalomaniac piece, intended to be performed in the Himalayas, with no spectators, only participants. Composer Alexander Nemtin spent 28 years, making a performing version of the sketch. I have the Kondrashin version for Part 1 - Universe. Well worth hearing for Scriabin fans. There is an Ashkenazy version of the whole thing on 3 CDs, which I have not yet heard, I think it is available only in the big complete box.

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• SH

  @shadowhegog9798 · 5 years ago (edited)

  Maazel’s Poeme de l’extase with the Cleveland orchestra the most gripping for me personally. &nbsp;It’s been my favorite for years and I haven’t found one that clicks better with me. &nbsp;The fact that Scriabin only lived to 43 I see as one of our greatest losses.

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• VA

  @VallaMusic · 5 years ago

  yay, Muti &amp; Philly ! &nbsp;so happy their Scriabin cycle made the scathing scrutiny of the Hurwitz cut !

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• JO

  @johnnymurgatroyd7393 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I reckon Scriabin would make a great subject for a movie. I recently read a quote by him, after playing one of his late piano pieces, commenting to a friend words to the following effect: &quot;You know, all these sentiments are phoney&quot;. It may be controversial to say so, but this quote exactly aligns with my impression of Scriabin: that he was a guy almost playing at being a composer. <br>Scriabin loved to express all these gusty, extreme emotional states, but he always seems to be a little tongue in cheek, a little wink-wink about it. Ditto about acting like a psychedelic mystic weirdo with various sexual obsessions. Even in the late 60s Glenn Gould was calling him &quot;the first psychedelic musician&quot;. All the light shows, the incense, the swagger, the whacked &quot;spirituality&quot;, and the sensitive wrist to the forehead. <br>To what extent Scriabin sincerely felt all these emotions, and believed the mad things he claimed to believe, and to what extent he was simply having tongue-in-cheek fun, would be a great subject for a movie.

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• HO

  @hoifcheu7533 · 5 years ago

  Thank you for the Theosophy story. Scriabin&apos;s stylistic change from late Romanticism to Modernism and his fascination with Theosophy sound very much in parallel with W. B. Yeats.

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• JE

  @jefolson6989 · 5 years ago

  The solo trumpet scared my dog and pissed off the bird!

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