Funnily enough, in 1907 Scriabin was living in New York for a short tour, at the "Madison Avenue Hotel" at Madison Ave and 92nd St, at least according to a letter he wrote Alfred La Liberte in Quebec.
Scriabin had an American tour !!!??? Wow ! How could Chopin and Scriabin (Tchaikovsky didn't care for or like too much the later quartets ! Incredible .I don't want to believe thinking men could not see whether the music is rude , a strain or just too reaching doesnt matter .How can you get Wagner but not Bethoven ? not get Beethoven in his bagatelles or Diabelli , Eroica variations or the middle through late sonatas ! To not deify any of he 9 symphonies or quartets is not even understandable to anyone who can read a page of music ! I know Tchaikovsky did never knew Sciabin of all people would come to our musically backward shores. I wonder if he met anyone interesting in our country . Ives or who? This was way before Cowell and certainly well before Varese came to our country .
When Scriabin was alive the Russians were still using the Julian Calandar. Both Western and orthodox Easter Sunday fell on 4 April in 1915 in the Gregorian calendar - 22 March in the Julian. Scriabin died on 27 April 1915 (14 April in the Julian calendar). If my facts are right then I don't think he died on Easter sunday but around three weeks afterwards. His birth on christmas day was on the old Julian calender and was christmas day 1871, not 1872 as is stated here. This corresponds to 6 January 1872 in the Gregorian calendar. Hope I'm not being too pedantic but good to clarify these things I think.
Fuck you on Christmas and Easter and a couple of times after or before. You stupid clock watcher. You obviously missed the joke. What are you... a Virgo?
Oh my darling, the performance was inspired, but the recording was shit. Whoa, to be so close and to fall so far. Alex would have died if he wasn't already dead. This performance was like serving a beautiful dessert on a dirty plate. Whooo, sorry. Blessing Garrick. Love your performance in Baton Rouge a few years ago. Blessings. CVD
Garrick and I were friends in New York and knew the marvelous composer Louis Weingarten.
How good would it be every pianist began their concert with a small introduction
And with so much fun. He has a live audience who react to his "angles", his views, "born on Christmas"
Or just said something anywhere in the recital.Maybe some can't deal with 2 memory tasks and sound relaxed
This is actually part way through,not at the beginning.
Funnily enough, in 1907 Scriabin was living in New York for a short tour, at the "Madison Avenue Hotel" at Madison Ave and 92nd St, at least according to a letter he wrote Alfred La Liberte in Quebec.
Scriabin had an American tour !!!??? Wow ! How could Chopin and Scriabin (Tchaikovsky didn't care for or like too much the later quartets ! Incredible .I don't want to believe thinking men could not see whether the music is rude , a strain or just too reaching doesnt matter .How can you get Wagner but not Bethoven ? not get Beethoven in his bagatelles or Diabelli , Eroica variations or the middle through late sonatas ! To not deify any of he 9 symphonies or quartets is not even understandable to anyone who can read a page of music ! I know Tchaikovsky did never knew Sciabin of all people would come to our musically backward shores. I wonder if he met anyone interesting in our country . Ives or who? This was way before Cowell and certainly well before Varese came to our country .
When Scriabin was alive the Russians were still using the Julian Calandar. Both Western and orthodox Easter Sunday fell on 4 April in 1915 in the Gregorian calendar - 22 March in the Julian. Scriabin died on 27 April 1915 (14 April in the Julian calendar). If my facts are right then I don't think he died on Easter sunday but around three weeks afterwards.
His birth on christmas day was on the old Julian calender and was christmas day 1871, not 1872 as is stated here. This corresponds to 6 January 1872 in the Gregorian calendar.
Hope I'm not being too pedantic but good to clarify these things I think.
Fuck you on Christmas and Easter and a couple of times after or before. You stupid clock watcher. You obviously missed the joke. What are you... a Virgo?
The fact that he died very close to Easter is enough though...
thank u for the info sir
Booooooy, did he Ace the last piece🔥🔥🔥💯
I got goosebumps
I had no idea Scriabin was born on X-mas day... and died on EASTER?!?!?!?!
What an irony!!!!
He was born on Christmas but never died on easter, that was just a joke.
so nice
he return or the stienway
nice to meet you here
ReturnOfTheStienway,
Scriabin once said, "I am God!"
Thanks 92ndStreetY for this great post.
He was very nervous...
@guirlandes3 I am enlightened... But I always loved Scriabin's music, thanks for this.
Which Christmas? Which Easter? The Russians used a slightly differenct calendar if I remember correctly?
Was it not Josef Lhévinne that won the gold medal for piano. class 1892 of Moscow Conservatory?
Garrick was riveting as usual, but to have heard the music would have been nice.
Oh my darling, the performance was inspired, but the recording was shit. Whoa, to be so close and to fall so far. Alex would have died if he wasn't already dead. This performance was like serving a beautiful dessert on a dirty plate. Whooo, sorry. Blessing Garrick. Love your performance in Baton Rouge a few years ago. Blessings. CVD
That crackles are the mics Set way too High in gain... notice when the music stops it goes away
What struck more than that were the people in the audience laughing at the personalities of Scriabin..Very insensitive.
The recording quality of this is absolutely garbage
But it’s such a good performance
I think I'll try remastering it