Thank you so much for continuing the tradition of the Romantic Russian School such as Rachmaninoff's blending with your special tonal language. Very unique indeed. I hope you will publish your compositions for purchase. They are worth studying. All the Best.
Btw, you might want to show the accidentals in 0:30 - 0:44 to make sightreading easier (for example, beginning of measure 35, beginning of measure 37, etc.). Though writing it in a single day is a valid excuse not to have them included lol
Hi! Thank you so much! Yes, I thought about it, but for some reason it disturbed my eyes😂 but you are absolutely right, I think adding them will be a good idea (in case someone except me will want to read it lol)
Thank you David, it's nice to know. I already recorded the whole opus 10 about a month ago, but was too busy to upload, as mixing the audio and editing it takes time. I will post the remaining two in the next days!
Hi Andy, I agree with you about the Rachmaninoff' influence. But I would have to disagree that it sounds like his music. Simply, there are many more styles and cultures that I mixed in this piece, and you cannot find any Rachmaninoff's piece sound like this one. Texture&voicing&harmonywise it is similar, but yet not the same. He is my favorite composer after all. My point on contemporary music is the following: the atonal, dissonant music is also not new anymore, because as far you go from tonality, it can also sound quite alike (if you use only dissonanses), and, it's a thing of the past as well (20th century has discovered most of it). So I think that coming back to the older styles, discovering new things in them, and mixing them with each other will create a fresher music. Simply because our ears today cannot be the same to ears of the greats, like Rachmaninoff, because we heard the music they didn't hear, including all the pop, jazz, dodecaphony, spectral music, minimalist music etc. I get quite upset, when nowadays people call the music, which has any sense of tonality "not fresh", while, in fact, most of the contemporary music got stuck in a very dissonant phase, which comes already from the previous century. The music should, first above all evoke feelings. Different kinds. And if that is achieved, I do not care in which styles the music is writte. Have a good time!
@@nikitashestakov. While I could detect an influence from Rachmaninov, especially in the inner voices moving about and dovetailing, you could never mistake this for Rachmaninov - it uses lots of chords and progressions that Rachmaninov would never have used.
Thank you so much for continuing the tradition of the Romantic Russian School such as Rachmaninoff's blending with your special tonal language. Very unique indeed. I hope you will publish your compositions for purchase. They are worth studying. All the Best.
This is incredibly impressive for 17-18, well done!
Btw, you might want to show the accidentals in 0:30 - 0:44 to make sightreading easier (for example, beginning of measure 35, beginning of measure 37, etc.). Though writing it in a single day is a valid excuse not to have them included lol
Hi! Thank you so much! Yes, I thought about it, but for some reason it disturbed my eyes😂 but you are absolutely right, I think adding them will be a good idea (in case someone except me will want to read it lol)
Гений!
Спасибо большое!
I love it, you are a wonderful composer! 🥰
Thank you so much!!🤗
wow, stunning
Thank you! 💫
this is pretty good
Thank you!
Congratulations on this composition, Nikita. I greatly enjoyed your prelude Op 10 No 3 “Tarantella”
Thank you so much, David!
@@nikitashestakov. I am looking forward to hearing you play other compositions, Nikita
Thank you David, it's nice to know. I already recorded the whole opus 10 about a month ago, but was too busy to upload, as mixing the audio and editing it takes time. I will post the remaining two in the next days!
@@nikitashestakov. Great. Looking forward to hearing them Nikita
Not bad from the pianistical point of view. The music is not fresh though. Too Rachmaninoff. Need more originality.
Hi Andy,
I agree with you about the Rachmaninoff' influence. But I would have to disagree that it sounds like his music. Simply, there are many more styles and cultures that I mixed in this piece, and you cannot find any Rachmaninoff's piece sound like this one. Texture&voicing&harmonywise it is similar, but yet not the same. He is my favorite composer after all. My point on contemporary music is the following: the atonal, dissonant music is also not new anymore, because as far you go from tonality, it can also sound quite alike (if you use only dissonanses), and, it's a thing of the past as well (20th century has discovered most of it). So I think that coming back to the older styles, discovering new things in them, and mixing them with each other will create a fresher music. Simply because our ears today cannot be the same to ears of the greats, like Rachmaninoff, because we heard the music they didn't hear, including all the pop, jazz, dodecaphony, spectral music, minimalist music etc.
I get quite upset, when nowadays people call the music, which has any sense of tonality "not fresh", while, in fact, most of the contemporary music got stuck in a very dissonant phase, which comes already from the previous century. The music should, first above all evoke feelings. Different kinds. And if that is achieved, I do not care in which styles the music is writte. Have a good time!
@@nikitashestakov. While I could detect an influence from Rachmaninov, especially in the inner voices moving about and dovetailing, you could never mistake this for Rachmaninov - it uses lots of chords and progressions that Rachmaninov would never have used.
Exactly my point!:) I don't deny Rachmaninoff's influence at all, but get very surprised she people say that it is a "copypaste".
@@nikitashestakov.very well said !