Getting into the Scriabin Mood - Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 4 | Classical Music Reaction 

You have the right to be proud of yourself after understanding pieces like this! This is one of my favourite pieces ever

If you want one of Scriabin’s more “digestible” pieces, I suggest his piano concerto. It’s a masterpiece!

I am really glad that you enjoyed this one! I think it may be interesting to read the “description” for this sonata from Scriabin himself. Sorry I am lazy to try my best and translate this better so.. this is from translator (I hope it will be understandable): In a light and transparent fog, in the distance a lost but clear Star twinkles with a gentle light. Oh, how beautiful it is! Cradles me, caresses me, beckons to the rays of the charming blue mystery… To approach you is a distant star! To drown in the trembling rays, is a wonderful radiance! That desire is sharp, full of madness and so voluptuous That always, I would like to wish for no purpose other than desire itself ... But no! In a joyful takeoff , I am rushing upwards… The dance is crazy! The intoxication of bliss! I am aiming my flight to you, a wonderful luminary! - To you, freely created by me, To be the goal of a free flight! In my capricious game, I forget about you. In the whirlwind that carries me away, I am moving away from you. In the burning joy of desire, a distant goal disappears... But you shine to me forever, because I wish this forever! And in the burning sun, in the blazing fire You flare up, - a gentle radiance! I approached you with a mad desire! I'm drowning in your sparkling waves… *And I drink you - oh, the sea of light! I, the light, am absorbing you!* "

Amazing to see someone interested in classical music and especially listening to one of my favourite pieces. Maybe listen to Pogerelich or Sofronitsky who play it beautifully!!

Man my favourite composer! Been watching and appreciating your content a while , keep listening 👌

Scriabin's 7th sonata is also a hair-raising piece and the 10th is very ethereal but very difficult.

ohhh, im glad you enjoy this piece. imo you MUST try pogorelich's version of this sonata #4 (his 1990 performance). it is simply divine

I love this sonata and I'm very glad that you reacted to it. However I don't really like this interpretation, I felt like the first movement wasn't intimate enough (could be because of the sound of the piano he uses) and the second movement was too rushed, not to talk about the climax which I just found atrocious. It's such a beautiful passage, you really should rush, in fact you should slow down to enhance the phrasing. But I do understand that it makes for a better reaction video to be able to see the notes, so I definitely would advise you to listen to it played by other pianists such as Pletnev, for example.

Loved thar you gave Scriabin a shot, especially this piece, truly epic. He was heavily influenced by Theosophy and was thought to have synesthesia where he could "hear color." One of my absolute favorites.

One of my absolute favorite Scriabin pieces (and the hardest piece I can actually play) is Etude #5 from opus 42 set. It's a 3-minute barn burner.

Scriabin is an interesting composer because he embodies the music transition between 19th and 20th century, as did also Beethoven a century before. If you want some challenge, please listen to Messiaen "Par lui tout a été fait"

Super intense. I always thought of Scriabin as more quirky than intense, but wow!

It’s ya boi Gidi!

If you want more Scriabin please listen to his third symphony! It's one of my favorite symphonies ever and is basically the apotheosis of his middle style, along with the 5th sonata. I recommend the recording by Riccardo Muti and the philadephia orchestra, it's great

Scriabin is very niche composer, even many hardcore classical musical fans dislike his music.

Great one! You should listen to Pogorelich's redemption of Scriabin Sonata No. 2

Hi Gidi! the fact that you understood this piece is insane, it took me years. I love this piece now, and Traum is really great but towards the ending there are repeated chords that Traum played in a bit of annoying and loud way.

You are right, you really can be proud of yourself! I'm sure you'll like Scirabins piece about the dark sea, his sonata 2 with Igor Zhukov (read at Wikipedia what this piece is exactly about, it will enhance your enjoyment! ;) )

I'd highly recommend to listen to Ivo Pogorelich performance of this particular sonata, or Andrei Gavrilov. This guy is pretty decent, but he's lacking lots of colors and some phrasing, compared to those two I've mentioned.

could you listen to the koussevitsky bass concerto. youll like it

Check out Swan Lake finale James Levine.

Personally, I feel Traum Piano’s interpretation was quite unique compared to other performances by Ashkenazy, Horowitz, and etc. Traum emphasized the fantasy of the coldness and “Mysticism” implemented into the score. I could clearly tell that he/her didn’t show or had origin in the colder areas (such as Russia, and other east European countries). For those who liked the performance, I strongly recommend listening to other records too. just fyi

As far as additional Scriabin pieces to try go, on the one hand there are plenty of earlier, more Chopin-like pieces, and on the other, there are pieces that are more challenging for the listener than any of the Scriabin you have listened to so far. The harmonic language of the 6th, 7th, and 9th sonatas is very pungent. The 8th and 10th are a bit "prettier," to my ear, but still very distinctive.

I have alot requests for you! 1: Liszt - Reminiscenes de Don Jaun 2: Balakirev/Glinka - The Lark 3: Ravel: La Valse Piano Arrangement 4: Liszt- Dante Sonata 5: Alkan - Le Preux 6: Liszt/Volodos - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 7: Mozart/Volodos - Turkish March 8: Liszt/Horowitz Hungarian Rhapsody No.15 9: Chopin - Scherzo No. 3 10: Rachmaninoff - Elegie Op.3 No.1 11: Liszt - Venezia e Napoli (Tarantella) 12: Alkan - Le Festin D’Esope 13: Alkan - Le Chemin de Fer 14: Liszt - El Contrabandista 15: Rachmaninoff - Romance in A (6 hands) 16: Liszt - La Leggierazie Hope you can react to some of them 😊

Mozart symphony no 40

More chopin

Dear god, please listen to a better recording of this! Pletnev for example!

this piece is horrible.