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!
@@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
I can hear bits or resemblances of melodies from Chopin/Liszt/Rachmaninov etc but still his work is different and full of his own depths and beauty. Apologies for ny lack of vocabulary I wish I were more eloquent on words. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS UPLOADING XOXOXO. it’s a rainy gloomy Sunday in Frankfurt but you lighten up my tea time. 🫖
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.
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 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.
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
Sounds like nothing I have ever heard before. But yet it's one of the most beautiful of the modern pieces.
How wonderful that there are channels like this that tell us this mesmerizing story of undeservedly forgotten people
This is astonishingly beautiful...
Excellent! The harmonies of the past excel in the compositions of the future.
Love these Bortkiewicz uploads :))
I play this one regularly!! Such a great listen
I can hear bits or resemblances of melodies from Chopin/Liszt/Rachmaninov etc but still his work is different and full of his own depths and beauty. Apologies for ny lack of vocabulary I wish I were more eloquent on words.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS UPLOADING XOXOXO.
it’s a rainy gloomy Sunday in Frankfurt but you lighten up my tea time. 🫖
Чудово!!!
Очень красиво ❤️
Beautiful performing 👏👏
I love listen this music. Thank you very much to post it!
So nice 🙂
Amazing. Thanks🌹🙏🙏🌱
Sublime!
Lindo!!!
Wonderful Ukrainian composer
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.
I play much of his music. Wonderful. Too much standard repertoire being performed. When is enough Enough ?
Wow! Thank you for uploading many Bortkiewicz pieces! Will you also do No.2?
I hear some inspiration from Chopin's 4th Ballade
came here to say that! surely an intended quote.
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.