Sergei Bortkiewicz - Minuit, Op.5/1
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- Опубліковано 28 сер 2024
- This piece was composed in 1907. It shows that Bortkiewicz was a composer of high class.
Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) was a Ukrainian Romantic composer and pianist of Polish ancestry. Bortkiewicz received his musical training from Anatoly Lyadov and Karl von Arek at the Imperial Conservatory of Music in Saint Petersburg.
In 1900 he left Saint Petersburg and traveled to Leipzig, where he became a student of Alfred Reisenauer and Salomon Jadassohn, both pupils of Franz Liszt. In July 1902, Bortkiewicz completed his studies at the Leipzig Conservatory and was awarded the Schumann Prize on graduation. On his return to the Russian Empire in 1904, he married Elisabeth Geraklitowa, a friend of his sister, and then returned to Germany, where he settled in Berlin. It was there that he started to compose seriously.
From 1904 until 1914, Bortkiewicz continued to live in Berlin but spent his summers visiting his family in Ukraine or travelling around Europe often on concert tours. For a year he also taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, where he was to meet his lifelong friend, the Dutch pianist Hugo van Dalen (1888-1967). Van Dalen premiered Bortkiewicz's Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 16, in November 1913 in Berlin with the Blüthner Orchestra conducted by the composer.
Bortkiewicz's piano style was very much based on Liszt and Chopin, nurtured by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, early Scriabin, Wagner and Ukrainian folklore. The composer never saw himself as a "modernist", as can be seen from his Künstlerisches Glaubensbekenntnis, written in 1923. His workmanship is meticulous, his imagination colourful and sensitive, his piano writing idiomatic; a lush instrumentation underlines the essential sentimentality of the melodic invention.
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Thanks for listening :-)
I feel like the former USSR countries’ music are underrated other then very famous composers (Rach, Tchai, Stravinsky, etc) Thank you for bring the unknown onto the internet!
Very true. Some of the greatest art and thought of our current time came from great soviet minds
@@RockPile_ Slavic, not Soviet. I doubt that many of the central European greats were communists. Kabalevsky and Roslavets the notable exceptions. On a similar note, Hispanic/south American music is exciting to me b/c it's novel, I feel the same way about the pre-romantic Germans: Ries, some Kalkbrenner, von Weber, Reger. Right now, after years of Chopin and Rachmaninoff I'm really into Schumann and I feel that I've been missing out. Good music is just that; even the English speaking countries have great talent which doesn't get recognition. I really like what Cyril Scott and John Ireland did, and York Bowen from the few pieces I heard. And England isn't a place you think of when you think great composers
How wonderful that there are channels like this that tell us this mesmerizing story of undeservedly forgotten people
This is astonishingly beautiful...
Sounds like nothing I have ever heard before. But yet it's one of the most beautiful of the modern pieces.
Excellent! The harmonies of the past excel in the compositions of the future.
Love these Bortkiewicz uploads :))
Очень красиво ❤️
Чудово!!!
I play this one regularly!! Such a great listen
Beautiful performing 👏👏
I love listen this music. Thank you very much to post it!
Wonderful Ukrainian composer
Sublime!
So nice 🙂
Amazing. Thanks🌹🙏🙏🌱
Bortkiewicz was born in the Russian Empire, long before there ever was a Soviet Union, and left Russia in 1900. He was a Pole, but not from Poland proper (the "Congress Kingdom") but, like Joseph Conrad, from the Polish Ukraine. He was an EXQUISITE musical artist who ought to be much better known.
Lindo!!!
Wow! Thank you for uploading many Bortkiewicz pieces! Will you also do No.2?
I play much of his music. Wonderful. Too much standard repertoire being performed. When is enough Enough ?
I hear some inspiration from Chopin's 4th Ballade
Can you share the link for downloading the pdf of this piece, please?
imslp.org/wiki/Minuit%2C_Op.5_(Bortkiewicz%2C_Sergei)
@@riselka7041 Thank you!
I would love to see you play some Eric Satie!
Maybe check out his waltzes “poudre d’or” (gold dust) or “Je te veux” (I want you)
Also gnossiennes are great
Bortkiewicz was NOT a Ukrainian, he was a Russian by language and cultural background.
Bortkiewicz was an ethnic Pole from both his father's and mother's side, and grew up in Ukraine, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. So it is no surprise that Russian was his everyday language. As for his cultural background, he had a European upbringing and education and he had to spend half of his life in Europe, first in Germany, then in Austria. He would have certainly been murdered had he returned to Soviet Russia.
@@lapincynique Look at his works, and you will see the russian surnames and context. I agree, he was an ethnic Pole man, but NOT a Ukrainian, as it proclaims often.