Scriabin Sonata No. 5 Op. 53 Part 1

[AdryyAndyy]

PORQUE TANTOS DISLIKES?!

[Choltik]

I like her performance, but i don't the Presto con allegrezza at 2:10. . . she plays it without the necessary joy. . .

I think the best performance of this sonata is the performance recorded by richter

[squishym]

Eh, not my favorite performance of this piece but I'd still f*ck her...

[annefrankisaho]

@squishym

Nobody cares, cunt.

[The1976spirit]

2:10 I want to hear Presto con allegrezza, not Bydlo lubricated with marmalade!

[eldenigrador]

you've reinvented the 5th scriabin sonata! i love the histerycal way you play piano!

[dangrbitch]

you shit talkers are crazy. This is way cooler than the jackhammer playing of sultanov and others. 

[arika002]

I will be playing this piece in my recital in 2 weeks. I will post it on YouTube.

[DmitriMose]

The introduction was EXTREMELY Bland!! It's really interesting how descriptive Scriabin's instruction are on the score! For instance, the intro was indicated with "Impetuoso, Con Stravaganza." That sounded nothing like it, lol!

[lovesGenet]

its funny when you go to the rarest interest on outube u see no commentary when you go to pianovids every person who ever had a lesson makes ignorant comments.Look up the Rochberg,Babbit,E.Carter,Lou Harrison contemp music and THE TRUE EXPERTS say nothing! I love this performance .She has the tonal palette to do it as she does.How many of u can get more than p,mf,ff in a large hall?None of you wankers!

[jack079]

Excuse me but all of you who consider this pianist to be mediocre should first try and perform it themselves...it is one of the hardest pieces in the entire piano repertoire...meanwhile she's up there on stage, giving it her all and doing from time to time some extraordinary things. She should be given credits for her bravery for performing something only very few pianists dare to do. I'm surprised of the ignorance with which people sometimes give comments.

[Rheostatik]

If someone is looking up videos on Scriabin, odds are he or she is quite familiar with the piano repertoire.

Are you saying we're not allowed to have opinions? I acknowledge she's a very talented pianist, otherwise she wouldn't be where she is. I just don't like her interpretation of this piece.

Does that make me ignorant?

[jack079]

@Rheostatik, thanks for your reaction. I think you have a good point in saying that most of the comments here come from people who have a certain knowledge about the music. Maybe then I should have used the word 'arrogance' instead, of course you're allowed to have an opinion but there are so many people who gave such harsh comments that it made me wonder if they listened to music for the sake of their enjoyment or rather for showing of their 'knowledge'.

[Rheostatik]

Yeah, she should stick with Chopin.

The harmonies speak for themselves, there's no need to try to schmultz everything up.

[andgodwouldsay]

@Rheostatik I agree Its a bit over the top.

[kempff95]

no one can play scriabin on youtube except sofronitsky, horowitz richter and neuhous!

[arika002]

my teacher studied with Heinrich Neuhaus in 1950s.

[arika002]

and she taught piano at a conservatory in Israel too. Her name is Maria Barna.

[LivEssent]

@DoktorNgKepiyas

Pretty fitting considering Scriabin was a mediocre composer

[gonofrio]

and you're a douche-bag.

[SamuelConcepcion]

Her posture is very bad.

[jenajiyoung53]

The sound quality is shit too and that is why the sound is a bit dull. Unfortunately the wrong notes really stand out. There are flashes of brilliance here but ultimately this performance is a bit of a letdown.

[leoyomi79]

I'm studing this buatyful piece. this is not Scriabin, this is a shit!!! a very big shit!!!!1she is not a pianist, she has to learn from Hamelin or Berd Glemser (Naxos cd).

[sgh31]

True. You should hear Sultanov perfomance best af all!!!

[Grigor99]

Not a bad performance, but it sounds a little like a cross between Debussy and Prokofiev not true Scriabin

[isnotisto]

Im in love with this woman. She's brilliant.

[trevjr]

Not terrible as some have indicated. I was expecting a mess, but not so. She does fine, just not fantastic.

[essenc82]

most ridiculous performance of this piece i have ever heard.. disgusting.. this festival should be ashamed.

[grdiii]

Wow! You must not get out much...

[skenne8]

Wow this performance sucks.

[anne4189]

I think she is a good pianist :)

[jobohabannebes]

It's not a song.

[mugicfan1]

Louder climaxes, huh? Sounds interesting. . .

[ukdavepianoman]

My favourite Scriabin Sonata. What is so interesting about Scriabin is that there are unlimited ways of playing his music. I prefer someone to try something different rather than select a boring middle of the road performance. There's a lot of things I like about her performance. But also many things I don't like. The quieter, nervy sections are too watery for my taste. I think she's actually better in the louder climaxes.

It would be very boring if everyone played it the same way...

[ibclappin]

her physical ability is just fine.

her interprtation of this piece is a pure disaster.

she doesn't remotely follow the notes written by Scriabin.

WHATEVER THIS IS IT CAN NOT BE CALLED SCRIABIN'S OP.58 AT ALL WHATSOEVER.

anything can be music, and if this sounds like music, great. it somehow being music has absolutely nothing to do with it being Scriabin's composition.

[grdiii]

Of course it doesn't sound like op. 58...it is opus 53. If you were expecting op 58, I can understand your comments - it "doesn't remotely follow the notes written by Scriabin." - however, if you were referring to op 53, then you don't know how to read music.

[Kalen1457]

She is a very very very good pianist. She plays this piece wonderfully, but I think Richter's interpertation is just a bit better. I hear just a couple of small errors. im not a perfectionist, Im just saying Richter performs this one more perfected. Overall a Very nice job.

[dmcII]

I wouldn't dispute that Richter's version is more polished. But I don't think its a fair comparison either. Richter was a giant of the keyboard and a very experienced performer. This woman is very young and still early in her career. She has plenty of room to mature artistically as I'm sure she will. I'd like to hear this piece from her in about 10 or 15 years.

[ibclappin]

she is no good.

[spv88]

she is very good pianist... with personal ideas

[evolsieilrak]

I absolutely despise this pianist. She has whored out my most beloved composer in the most undignified way. The only word I can find to describe this interpretation is clumsy.

[coolmike2006]

the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[tjland2]

She is my piano teacher.

[Alvarordonez]

Your piano teacher .....hmmmm.......Interesting..­. ;-) ..Where is she teaching now?

[isnotisto]

She is brilliant!!!!!!!

[isnotisto]

Irma Svanadze is the most beautiful piano player in the world. And no man or woman could play it like she did.

I am amazed of the jelous people that wrote here. However Amadeus had the same problem with Salieri did he not.

She is a modern day genious!!!!!!!

[VilleHermanniGirl]

ANARCHY !!!!

She doesn't deserve any applause or standing ovation : Her performance is absolutely awful.

She confused the mysterious dinamism and languid soulful fresco of an artistic vision with chewy , nonsensical,RYTHMLESS( her "rubato" it's stupid and useless)infantil and weak performance.She outraged not only the works and geniality of one of most rapresentative composer of 20th century but also of pianist that changed the story(Any comparison with horowitz it's a bullshit)

[FerencLiszt]

Io la trovo assolutamente MERAVIGLIOSA, un'iterpretazione fantastica, coinvolgente, la condivido, e non potrei che fare altrimenti!

BRAVA!

[zhangensprachen]

Hmm...her interpretation is a bit neurotic but I guess there's nothing wrong with that since Horowitz was incredibly neurotic himself but made it work. I think Irma gets a little breathless at times and chokes for there are sections which are surpisingly messy for someone who could obviously handle the piece. Plus, at times, the sound quality is a little too harsh. She's probably putting too much weight on the word "ecstasy."

[Reaper978]

I found this recording to be annoying. Her exaggerated movements and facial expressions didn't help with that.  The rubato seems intensely overdone and the opening bass flourish is completely dead. All the "emoting" seems completely forced and unnatural.

[sirdelrio80]

Great Masters don't come out too frequent. In the mean time we have to se settle with what the students and low profile concertists have to offer. Irma shows hard work but not much artistic vision, which depends mostly on intelligence, inner ear, meditation and so on. Nevertheless SHE'S AN ABSOLUTELY A HOT GIRL. I would love to take her out to dinner, and do other dirty stuff i should not write about. Irma, if you read this and it sounds interesting or appealing to you, let me know about you.

[robion1957]

балует очень не по-нашему but shes decidedly hoofable

[babyman9]

Brava. Scriabin is not a composer whose music can be read by an able technician and made accessible. It depends upon an artist with vision. I believe this artist has a convincing voice for a highly arcane piece of the literature.

[7angels7plagues]

this is NOT how you play scriabin. absolutely destroyed the piece. in MY opinion horowitz does the best rendition of this piece. and gilels does a very good rendition of his third sonata

[supersmashmike45]

good work

[Alvarordonez]

Wow! Interesting performance of this Scriabin's sonata Nº 5 This is a dificult but a graet work.

[soundfigures]

worst scriabin ever.

[yalee2]

what the hell is this.

[ibclappin]

no, i'm sorry, this isn't what it's supposed to sound like, and it's doesn't sound good OR right. i mean what did she want to be creative or something? she not only created her own new unique key-intensity sequence for this piece, but she also changed the timing. she should listen to Richter, or anyone else for that matter, playing this piece, then she should practice it, and then give another shot at performing it maybe.

[longtallsallie08]

beautiful

[ibclappin]

see you can't play Scriabin's music just any weird way you want to and still call it Scriabin.

[sddwest1]

Nothing serves quite like youtube for bringing out the backwards, dogmatic fascist latent in everyone. Nothing like the conservatism of the thoroughly indoctrinated piano mule! What a sight.

This is an incredible, passionate and sensual rendition. I have no time for antiquarians.

[IAMLISZT]

Wow its playing like this that makes you appreciate people like Hamelin and Richter even more.

[flashquiksilver]

In my 13 years of piano lessons, I came to the realization a couple years ago that someone can learn a lot just by paying close attention to the musical score , as obvious as that might sound. This performer obviously didn't.

[chad410]

we are so used to the Richter performances of this piece.Personally I don t like it as a composition compared to his other sonatas.Perhaps it lacks some momentum but it s her approach.we re all entitled to our own way of playing a work.especially if it s this well known.

[musrax]

What surprises me most of all is your reaction to this video... did we all listen to one recording and can not open our inds to something different? I am trying to learn this piece and listened to ll those recordings...they are great...but here I heard something different(finally)...Harmony and color...NOT TECHNIQUE...after all this piece is all about transition...Skriain's first use of color and his chord...it is like an Odyssey and a trip through Skriabin's chords...

[intheblackwelkin]

this woman must be a joke

[yaleguy]

yeah she is. But so are you, intheblackwelkin. YOu are the biggest joke of all. Put your money where your mouth is. Let's see something from you. on second thought, never mind. I don't want to hear a guy play with all thumbs, and his foot in his mouth.

[Messiaen]

Agree with most of you. Scriabin´s rotating in his tomb... If that´s Klavierfestival Ruhr´s idea of a good (Scriabin)pianist count me out from ever coming near that festival in any way.

Above mentions recordings are all godd, but also would like to push Håkon Austbös excellent SIMAX-recordning!!

[faziolifan]

scriabin, compared to other composers, does demand more involvement from the performer in bringing the music to life...that said the artistic choices made here run contrary to the markings on the piece. The beginning sfp and Allegro impetuoso...a sound explosion with a decrecendo that never took place. It seems the choices made reflect the lack of muscle memory for the piece

[ekatsomaia]

I think here performance is just perfect!

[rachm06]

poor interpretation,and I think there are also some wrong passages

[crystal130h]

OMG, she starts out the Presto con allegrezza slow, legato, and heavily pedaled. I really didn't care for this interpretation one bit. Everything is slurred and blurred and her transitions are all listless and gradual. There are no crisp contrasts using articulation or tempo, just dynamics. It sounds like there's a sock over the piano (to be fair, part of this is poor audio quality). And if I were her piano teacher, I would keep a hook at the ready to snatch her foot away from that pedal.

[valarking]

This sounds boring as hell, and I know that this Sonata is not boring, so that leaves one conclusion...

[bbbworship]

garbage performance

[richterfreak]

I didn't listen to part 2, because what I heard convinced me that this pianist has an utter lack of understanding for Scriabin. This performance starts and goes nowhere and every time the music is about to take off on its own, the pianist hits the brakes to indulge herself by making pretty sounds. Find Sofronitsky's, Horowitz's or, above all, Richter's recordings and you will see just how volcanic this music really is in the right hands.