The Andante of this concerto is one of my favorite piano concerto movements of all time. I love the whole concerto, but I often listen to the 2nd movement on its own.
Wonderful concerto. When I look at the score - all those sharps and double sharps I'm really amazed at how anyone could learn the score - let alone play it!!!
@@erikfreitas7093Wonderful description! I kinda feel the same way. For me it's like a small moment where we can remember nothing but the good things of an exctinct humanity, like a small legacy of what we were in the vast universe
It might not be entirely representative of his later style, but I think this concerto is one of Scriabin's finest works. The way that the soloist weaves around the orchestral textures is like a musical tapestry - not a single note is wasted. Edit: Happy 150th Birthday, Alexander Scriabin! (January 6th, 2022)
Divine music!!!! How did they learn so incredible much during this period of time?!! Something must be wrong inside our education institution now a days. Something essential is missing. Thank God we have our olds heroes. Scriabin is one in front
Well if you want most children working in coal mines without an education so that the privileged few can spend all day practising the piano...that’s how it used to be.. at least these days kids get a childhood. Is that the education system you are harking back to? There is also phenomenal talent through many different types of music at the moment. A lot of film and tv music at the moment is stunning, inspired by a huge range of influences.
@@davidcarter3049 Nowadays the children don't work anymore in coal mines they sit in schools where they are subjected to cultural Marxist propaganda. So we have the worst of two worlds: talented young people are denied intellectual progress as well as the not so bright ones. And this has nothing to do anymore with social status.
@@davidcarter3049 The people who worked in coal mines were mainly from industrialized countries like Britain and that was only in the early 19th century and as the middle class gained more access to classical music it became more prominent, until when it declined due to the World Wars. Today's education needs to look towards more through classical art and music, especially in America at here where it is highly neglected. The problem with today's music is that no one is creating a "new sound" or style with many having lack of identity, you look at Scriabin in his later years or composers like Satie and Prokofiev, their style is very originial and no one else can imitate it. Just my opinion though.
i love moszkowski piano concerto op.03 and op.59, the second one is my favorite of all time, you should listen also Xaver Scharwenka piano concerto 3 and 4, you will love it. He was friend of Moritz Moszkowski, they studied together with the same teacher in Germany
Chopin mixed with Tchaikovsky. Wow, early Scriabin is very different to the synethesic opium-fuelled, light-filled sex-dream harmonic adventurousness of late Scriabin.
The only Symphony I have is his 5th but I have no score of it. There are only two works of his on IMSLP 2nd Symphony and the Violin Concerto where Olla vogala found the score of the Piano Concerto I don't know. But I agree his Symphonies should be posted with score. Definitely.
The main theme in the finale, marked at 88 has accelerandos and ritenutos. Not sure but Ashkenazy seems to judge it better than anyone else. Most use little rubato and the theme is marked to be played with enchantment. Basic tempo 84. (might be 88 pulse as asked with accelerandos and ritenutos that Scriabin asks for. It kills me that we don’t have Scriabin doing this. His piano roll recordings of sonatas 2 and 3 make all the others worthless in comparison.
After hesring Vladimir Ashkenazy's performance of Scriabin's beautiful & very dramatic & thrilling piano concerto, I wonder why it is almost forgotten. Is it too difficult to play properly or do too few orchestras want to incur the expense to cover the costs of sheet music, extra practice time & new demands upon conductors?
