Sergei Bortkiewicz : Piano Sonata no. 2 in C-sharp minor, Op. 60 (performed by Jouni Somero)

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  @Form-Material-Color · 4 years ago

  Honestly Bortkiewicz Sonatas are amazing. Who cares they sound like Chopin or Scriabin in parts? It's amazing anyways.

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  @RobertSoppa · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPx5EmMlBI&amp;t=253">4:13</a> starts the main theme of Kalinnikovs 1st Symphony.

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  @berthill2305 · 5 years ago

  We should be indebted to Jouni Somero rather than criticise his playing. &nbsp;He has brought us some relatively unknown gems, and this is one of the best. &nbsp;He points out the composers little tributes to Chopin Scriabin, &nbsp;Rachmaninoff and others in a carefully crafted way. &nbsp;Bortkiewicz is in the shadow &nbsp;of Rachmaninoff Scriabin ands Medtner, but his music is compelling in it&apos;s own way. &nbsp;This is a great listen for lovers of late romantic piano music as I am.

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  @smb123211 · 2 years ago

  Glorious Finale, wonderful Sonata and &quot;Boo!&quot; to the naysayers. &nbsp;I cannot recall a single performance by - take your pick - Cliburn, Horowitz, Gould, Wang, etc - that I&apos;ve not read, &quot;Well, they did miss the d sharp on measure 234&quot; or &quot;The accented notes should have been more pronounced&quot; or even &quot;Uninspired&quot;. &nbsp;It just burns me up knowing the effort and time entailed. &nbsp;OK, this is not a Lyaponov transcendental etude but so what? &nbsp;Bravo.

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  @tfpp1 · 5 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPx5EmMlBI&amp;t=85">1:25</a> - The sequence at measure 30 is lifted straight out of Rachmaninoff&apos;s second piano concerto.

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  @kohs.3876 · 6 years ago

  The most underrated sonata ever

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  @ДмитрийУстинов-ь3э · 1 year ago

  I want to introduce all foreign listeners to the choir that plays at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPx5EmMlBI&amp;t=1064">17:44</a>. This is the ancient Orthodox hymn &quot;Christ is Risen,&quot; which is very popular and is sung in all churches in my country on Easter.

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  @harrylee3898 · 5 years ago

  He really did love to imitate other composers and add his own style. One piece and I hear Rach 3&apos;s 2nd Mov, Grieg&apos;s Peer Gynt (Aese&apos;s Death), Chopin&apos;s Berceuse and other themes I can&apos;t remember right now but that I&apos;ve already definitely heard. Like W.H. Davenport Adams once said, &quot;Great poets imitate and improve, whereas small ones steal and spoil.&quot;, same goes for music.

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  @yagiz885 · 5 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPx5EmMlBI&amp;t=1454">24:14</a> what a wonderful climax!

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  @MegaCirse · 3 years ago

  I&apos;ve been losing my mind for some time but that darkly sunny music, among many others, helps me to float, to keep my head above water💥

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  @doritodog6242 · 6 years ago

  It&apos;s been a while since I came across a piece that moved me so much that I had to start learning it straight away. This is an absolutely wonderful piece.

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  @steps222 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I&apos;m sure that those who have noted the influences of other composers on Bortkiewicz, not to mention his out-and-out borrowing, don&apos;t mean to diminish his achievement, or at least I hope not. &nbsp;Almost every composer has borrowed. &nbsp;Mozart&apos;s &quot;37th Symphony&quot; is actually an embellishment of Michael Haydn&apos;s 25th. &nbsp;Mahler didn&apos;t &quot;write&quot; the opening of his 1st Symphony; he borrowed the theme from the slow movement of the Brahms 2nd. &nbsp;The same theme shows up in the Chorale of Franck&apos;s Prelude, Chorale, and &nbsp;Fugue. &nbsp;Are Mozart, Mahler, and Franck any the less? &nbsp;Is Dvorak less for having been influenced by Brahms or Brahms for being influenced by Beethoven or Bach for being influenced by Pachelbel and Vivaldi? &nbsp;Stravinsky said the good composers borrow, while great ones steal. &nbsp;Neither Chopin, Kalinnikov, Scriabin, nor Rachmaninoff wrote this music. &nbsp;Bortkiewicz did, and (IMO) few have written anything more beautiful. &nbsp;Maybe there are composers who have been influenced by Bortkiewicz. &nbsp;If so, I&apos;d admire them for their good taste.

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