awesome! I feel this is quite acessible modern music, because you hear a lot of logical structure in this piece. i'd love to try these one day. after Chin's Toccata.
@@supasayajinsongoku4464 Heh, nice question! Probably Borodin Symphony 2 Finale arranged for solo piano: ?v=_kWYQR175Zs Also, maybe not exciting, but interesting: Iiro Rantala - Freedom for prepared piano ?v=-jDa2-QlKmI but yeah, Hamelin is great :) do you know his Alkan Etude?
@@supasayajinsongoku4464- Stop spamming the comments!! You keep posting the same comment in almost every thread which is extremely annoying! Stop spamming, or someone will report you.
The problem with this recording is a massive, extreme and therefor imperfect usage of a noise reducing system. It makes the piano sounds kind of artificial. Anyway, it's just excellent piano music. There's a lot of fun and wit - either if you're playing or hearing it (or composing....)
@fredericfranc To each his own. You must remember that Lut. died less than 20 years ago...living to a ripe old age. Scriabin not so much, and Scriabin had a massive impact on the music scene in his relatively short life. Traditional? As far as complexity is concerned. I would find it it equally difficult to successfully analyze any Lutoslowski work (like Symphony 2) and any late Scriabin sonata. In fact, I would probably give the edge to a late Scriabin sonata. Particularly one like No. 8 or 9.
It says composed in 1940 - 1941. I wonder, as the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto fire consumed everything both Lutosławski and Andrzej Panufnik had written and arranged to that date, and the only thing that survived was the MS of Lutosławski's Variations on a Theme of Paganini for 2 Pianos -- how is this possible? Was it a recent discovery of sorts? Thanks.
It wasn't 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising but after the fall of Warsaw Uprising (October 1944 - January 1945) when Germans destroyed most of the city. He wasn't in Warsaw during the uprising, so he probably took some of his music with him. It isn't recent discovery, because it was premiered in 1948.
@fredericfranc I agree with you that Lutoslawski should be heard more in performances nowadays, but I'm curious: why do you not particularly like Scriabin on the piano? Have you really listened well to his pieces? The 7th sonata took me like 10x hearing to 'get' it, and the piano concerto? Or the (to my ears) unbelievable beauty of even a little piece like his etude 2 no.1? I'm interested in your opinion, because I've never heard a true music lover (what you seem) dislike Scriabin. :)
@fredericfranc I must say this is simply incorrect. Scriabin, being an early 20th century composer, was quite radically developing his own system of atonality very much independent of the Viennese School, which decidedly fell out of favor once critics established Schoenberg as 'the music of the future'. That and Mysticism was panned. If I didn't know better I would say you are articulating Scriabin's music with your last sentence.
@fredericfranc Why not? I support the TEa Party and I felt like a Little Lutoslawski would give me a break from too much Ligeti...Although I'm thiiiiiis close to going on a Scriabin binge. You were saying?
Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this year
@fredericfranc Perhaps because I am a pianist I am drawn to him, and I find his aesthetic appealing. He was a true artist of sound creation and emotional indulgence in the most lavish sense, and yet, never sounds vulgar, at least to me. The edge of dreams is an appealing place for me personally as it seemed to be for Scriabin. So I suppose this may sway my personal taste. Yet Lut's Piano Sonata to the right of me over there is pretty boring...like...bad Mednter. And it reeks of Rach's Sonata 2
I feel like Lutoslawski was like one Russian composer which eludes me. . .where the other composers would secretly edit his work because they thought he was, for lack of better words, slow. . .But in reality, he was actually quite genius in his musical decisions.
Slightly unrelated but whats the most beautiful piece youve heard this month or even this year And then whats the most relentless, driving piece youve heard this year
@titusbeertsen I know, compare the popularity Scriabin to frikkin Justin Beiber and you would think anyone with average intelligence would appreciate the fact that some people actually bother to listen to, let alone love, his music.
@fredericfranc With all respect to Witold, he can't hold a candle to the luminous genius that was Scriabin. I mean, seriously. And by the way, what's with the political comments? Can't seem to remember a time when pontificating over a piece of classical music benefited from mindless political discussion. If the Republicans need their rear ends reamed out for their ill behavior, then you, sir, need a kick to the nuts for polluting a comments section with worthless, mindless political drivel.
***** Well, I never heard a midi this good, so I doubt it. The recording has been made in a very dry acoustic, and the way the pedals are used make it even dryer, especally when it comes to phrasing and dynamics. Otherwise I think it conributes to the percussive style of the music.
Opera Et Labora Oh I heard midi recordings that were much better sonically than this. On second thought this could be a real recording. The sound is awfully strange though, certainly the dynamics have been heavily tampered with. It's a pity as this is, if not midi, playing of the highest order.
Really good it is... But as a pianist I can say that a sudden diminuendo within one note is impossible. As is the way the volume goes up and down within a passage. That's why I think the sound has been doctored. But yes it good still be a real recording after all, in which case hats off. This pair must be awfully hard to play.
