Aleksandr Scriabin - 3 Etudes in different intervals Op. 65 (GSARCI VIDEO VERSION)
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- With the three Études Op 65 (1911-12) we definitively enter the final stage of Scriabin’s composing career. The last orchestral work, Prometheus (with piano, organ and choir) had been completed: it included a part for a ‘keyboard of lights’ which was to project changing colours into the auditorium. This synaesthetic concept led to the unfinished multi-media project which was to occupy Scriabin’s thought in his final years, the ‘Mysterium’, intended to bring about a world spiritual revolution. Ironically, the general tendency in his music at this time was towards ever-increasing concentration and conciseness.
A letter of 1912 anticipates with glee the scandal to be caused by the publication of Études based on the ‘horrifying … perverse … sacrilegious’ intervals of ninths, sevenths and fifths. The sonorities created here are among Scriabin’s most original and visionary. He himself was not able to perform the extremely difficult Op 65 No 1-his hands were too small to span the ninths, which, moreover, have to be played quickly and pianissimo. The effect is uncanny and ghostly. No 2, in major sevenths, deals with the most dissonant of the three intervals but, paradoxically, is the most overtly sensuous and languorous of the Études. Barcarolle-like rocking alternates with agitated volando flutterings like those of a captive bird. No 3, in fifths, is a dialogue: an ethereal, scintillating dance is repeatedly interrupted by powerful, imperious and hieratic gestures akin to those which open the seventh Sonata (headed ‘Prophétique’ in the manuscript), composed at the same period.
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Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. I do recommend changing the video quality to a minimum of 480p.
Performance by: Artem Abashev
Original audio: classical-music-online.net
Original sheet music: imslp.org/wiki/3_Etudes%2C_Op.65_(Scriabin%2C_Aleksandr)
0:02 I / 2:55 II / 4:32 III
I feel pain in my small hands while just watching this.
The composer feels the same way.
@@thenameisgsarci But how? Why do you think that Scriabin wrote this, if he had small hands. I heard that he could only reach an octave, it's impossible to roll the notes on the first one. Im guessing that small hands for him meant that he could only reached a 9th. Because I don't think that you can say that someone has small hands if he reaches a 10th.
Yes, there are instances when composers wrote down works they can't or won't play for various reasons.
@@fogonpr He ruined his right hand playing Don Juan so he probably just didn't care anymore
@@calebhu6383 It was playing Don Giovanni/ Liszt and Islamey. However within a few months, he recovered and was able to play again like normal.
By far my favourite composer. An unparalleled genius and a visionary. Such a shame he died so young, the music he would have gone on to create would have been so unique and revolutionary just like his later works, we can't even imagine what it would have been like. Side note - I highly recommend listening to all of his sonatas in one go, in chronological order. Hearing the tonality slowly become blurred and stray further and further into chromaticism, like the powerful spirit of mental illness descending over Scriabin as he got older, is a really special experience.
I will definitely recommend this, but never mind just the sonatas, how about his entire repertoire? 😁
@@thenameisgsarci especially the last Symphonies/Symphonic Poems (Poeme de l'Extase, Prometheus, Prefactory Action)
@@thenameisgsarci Absolutely! Would certainly need a LOT of time to listen to all of it in one go, but it would be worth it :)
Thomas N. What an exaggeration.
I mean he was a genius but come on
Scriabin is so underrated... one of my favourite composers
not really underrated though...
Hadn't an inkling it was a live performance until the applause burst out at the end!
Whenever I hear Scriabin I feel I'm in the presence of something diabolical
And something heavenly too.
@@thenameisgsarci Sometimes, maybe!
@Paul Freeman ua-cam.com/video/-xqEABqaEuo/v-deo.html
Immortals are devils without eyeption, or Sith Lords is you prefer fariry tales.
So "Joy, frightening spark of demons" is the true meaning of Beetvoen´s Op. 125.
In fact he was satanist
A marvelous trio of studies. Love the tonal colors throughout.
The one in sevenths always gave me fits because my hand wanted so badly to grab an octave. It's so awkward to play repeated sevenths. I always found it easier to stretch to a ninth while moving around than contracting the hand slightly from the octave position.
You could try it with the fourth finger rather than the fifth.
I find a lot of theosophy to be pretty absurd and I am well aware of how insane Scriabin’s beliefs were, but if it can lead to music such as this then I think I might give it a go.
Ahaha absolutely!
Profondità e visionaria leggerezza ecco a Voi il vero volto del Maestro!
Marco Rotondi
No. 1: Sort of possessing some enigmatic and demonic power 😈
No.2: Vibing and chilling in the air with flying colours and rainbow 🌈
No.3: Why is it full of impressionism vibes while Scriabin's is symbolism? I love it.
It’s very ironic that Scriabin’s hand could barely expand to 8th.
Sungjin Lee Says a lot about his technical prowess. From what we know he played most of his works rather fast as well.
TomCL 2000 It’s amazing if it’s true. Well, I’m studying his sonata no.5 right now, and it looks like it’s almost impossible to play well for someone who has small hands.
Sungjin Lee I can only dream of being able to play any of Scriabin’s sonatas. My love for pianism does not match my ability lol. His 5th sonata seems monstrously difficult but definitely worth it.
TomCL 2000 it surely is. Wonderful piece but extremely demanding.
Sungjin Lee As someone working on the piece I’d be very interested to know your opinion on it. Do you categorize it with Scriabin’s later, more mystic sonatas? Or perhaps with his earlier, more Romantic and Russian sonatas. I personally find it to be the ultimate insight into Scriabin. It is Russian-Romantic, impressionistic and mystic at the same time. I truly consider it to be the single greatest sonata ever written.
I don’t know why - The first one based on 9ths makes me laugh everytime
It reminds me of a hot air balloon, the most popular mode of air travel at the time.
@@visualjazz2200 delusional
I just started working on these!
Whoa beautiful
5 Day's ago was Scriabin's Birthday!
Was expecting you to show up. 😁
@@thenameisgsarci everywhere my dog goes, I follow him =)
@@scriabinismydog2439 I never understood why Scriabin is your dog...
@@scriabinismydog2439 hahaha, hellooo
@@DariusMo I got inspiration from Stockhausen is my cat's Channel
Very similar ideas to Scriabin 5th sonata in my opinion
Ever tried choosing a set of intervals and making an entire piece out of it? Its really fun, I've been experimenting with it(sadly like 90% of my pieces get abandoned when I'm lazy to continue xD But I finished a prelude). Creates a unique sound atmosphere depending on the intervals.
Not gonna lie, I wanna try it, but it ended up sounding like Scriabin too. Hmm...
@@thenameisgsarci Just uploaded my prelude. I think it was a fair try, but I'm no good composer anyways, a good composer would do a better job on it than me.
Rodrigo Damasceno Me pasa lo mismo, terminé una pieza en un año de componer jajaja
you're incapable.
@@Whatismusic123You're insufferable.
スクリャービンだとすぐにわかる。いい音ですね。暗くない無調のような音楽。。。
I can stretch an 11th but this looks like a pain in the ass
Insane but genius 5:59
Wtf is that third etude?? Like, how do you even move your hands that fast (like in 5:05 for example)
Súper!!!!!
Fantastic Etudes. I’ve played only 2 of them, I cannot do the Op 65 No 1, hand is not comfortable ok so many 9ths.
Wow!
I wrote a piece of my own that proceeds through sections that use parallel intervals from major sevenths down to tritones. The fifth may be the most consonant of those intervals, but there's something about parallel fifths that sounds uniquely ferocious.
Под чем был Скрябин когда писал первый этюд?
Он был чист
The second etude sounds a bit like ligeti
Please never say something so stupid ever again.
@@Whatismusic123wcweoricnirweo why
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Why does the opening few bats make me feel sea sick?
An unnatural progression. Quite harmonically advanced for the time
ワイの右手「解せぬ」
Score vid youtubers need to prioritize accuracy over sensationalism... what if a young Scriabin fan became obsessed with this piece and listened to this recording over and over? They would get false notions about the piece because of all the mistakes all over.
Partoche go *blonkers
I'm not a fan of this interpretation. The rubato is blown way out of proportion for my tastes and sounds too dry.
I actually liked this interpretation way back until someone recommended me another recording. The name must be buried in the comments somewhere here.
№3 is "Cat vs Mice"
Listen to the Zhukov version, it's 10 times better.
@@mysterium364
Massive thanks!!
Scriabin late etudes are filled with chaotic frenzy. Not particularly enjoyable.
Disagree.