Blumenfeld - Etude "Sur mer"

[ludwigvan17]

This is awesome!!!!

[EmanuelaZucchi]

From the point of view of compositive creativity, it is rather banal. I really think my thumb will be down!

[4candles]

Can definitely hear the influence of Chopin here, but then again, Chopin did hold influence over so many pianist-composers of his time and in the ensuing decades.

Lovely piece this.

[Aul1kki]

How boring playing. The piece is awesome though!

[cyrz13]

When I close my eyes, so many bad things are comming...

[engloute]

Hexameron, do you happen to know the concert etude by Bedřich Smetana - On the Seashore (Am Seegestade, or in Czech - Na břehu mořském)? It's probably very little known outside his and my homeland, but it's a piece worth listening to, in a way more adventurous then this one, both harmonically and technically.

[Herb2992]

@engloute thanks for the suggestion, I enjoyed Smetana's piece very much. At the moment I even prefer it over Blumenfeld's Etude

[engloute]

@Herb2992 glad to hear that - Smetana was an accomplished pianist, and he wrote the piece as a memory of his stay in Göteborg in Sweden... and as a very powerful concert tour-de-force :) Blumenfeld was a different generation, younger, his ears were different I guess, less radical, maybe

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

I wonder why Horowitz never recorded any significant amount of his teacher's music....

[TableEnMousse]

What a powerful theme.

[Martel211996]

At first i thought this was the minor version of Chopins prelude op 28 no 3

[kasyapa]

Martel211996 - great minds.

[lommi09]

Es ist wirklich schade, dass nur sehr wenige Menschen

solch großartige Musik verstehen und zu schätzen wissen.

[f1f1s]

I did not even guess that 'Sur mer' means 'On the sea' in French. I thought the composer had depicted an Oriental railroad...

[shaheenmickael]

I Want Revenge! bit . ly/jerku

[Sirasons]

Mélodie d'une extrême beauté, dommage que Blumenfeld ne sois que trés peu connus ! (en effet elle la main gauche ressemble bien a Chopin op 12 no 10 et Mozkowski étude en Sol mineur je trouve :))

[jasonextreme]

This is very beautiful. I just found another favorite underrated composer.

[demosj]

Forgive me for asking, but is there any relation between Blumenfeld and Daniel Blumenthal?

[drextalorr]

I can't believe his pieces are never played!!! What a moving, passionate theme! It's rare for an étude, even from such as Chopin or Liszt, let alone a near-unheard of composer like Blumenfeld, to have such a moving theme. This piece has very orchestral sounds to it.

It's overall structure and execution don't seem very unique, as I can see bits of Chopin's D minor Prelude and Rachmaninoff's études scattered here and there, but it's the SOUND that gets you. Thanks for uploading!

[kmpiano1]

very interesting music! very reminiscent of Chopin op.10 no.12 and Mozkowski g minor etude. I have to say not a big fan of the playing though because the accompaniment is so loud and notey. But props for him playing all these rare music and letting us discover them!

[william366]

Incredible listening ! Thanks so much Hex !

[Toccata123]

Amazing!

[kasyapa]

left hand figures derived from chopin g major prelude, maybe? :)

[Pianoplayer002]

The piece is amazing, but I find the playing be a little blunt

[Jeje64]

Maybe that's just me, but this one reminds me of Henselt - Etude op.2 n°1 that Hexameron also shared with us. The opening theme is very similar.(here we have D-G-A-Bb vs in Henselt's one A-D-E-F) And in both case the melody comes with an outburst in the left hand.

[GaryPansey]

Russian Soul Music!!

[JakaAce]

***It's not cool, it's gorgeous <3***

5/5

[JakaAce]

It's really cool but i find it too... i don't know but...

Uhm, I'm 15, I will finish this comment in 20-30 years. =)

[tomekkobialka]

Beautiful tune, thanks for posting!

[kasyapa]

that left hand figure seems somewhat a tribute to the chopin prelude in g maj. :)

[npelletier89]

Whoa... exactly what I was thinking as soon as I heard this! I see a few people agree :P

[123eldest]

yeh^^

[Martel211996]

@kasyapa HAHAH i just posted a commented similar to that, and i saw ur comment

[Pironet]

the left hand-style reminds me a little to Chopin's a-moll Prelude and Etude c-moll op.10.

Thank you for posting, Hexameron!

[MagicDonDino]

LISTEN TO THIS MASTERPIECE If we close our eyes, CAN SEE A STORM AT SEA! MAGNIFICENT!

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@MagicDonDino ma che cazzo dici :D

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@MagicDonDino I do not see anything

[123eldest]

Nice piece

[pianodan10]

Thanks for this; beautiful harmonic motion in this. I especially like the deceptive cadence (the EbMaj chord) towards the end... thanks for more enlightenment. I'm surprised I've never heard Horowitz perform his pieces, considering his connection to the man, as well as the extreme romantic virtuosity; seems right up his alley.

 Did Blumenfeld ever record to your knowledge? for some reason the pianist/composers always seems to have a transcendent quality to their playing.

[Hexameron]

I haven't seen anything recorded by Blumenfeld, but one of his other famous pupils, Simon Barere, has recorded the left hand etude Op. 36.

[vaxx2007]

@Hexameron

we must find BELOV performance of this and another (left hand!!) etudes - it is just another level. I heard this in some forgotten soviet library on very old vinil. i dont know where it can be. By the way this Belov is an editor of many blumenfeld works.