Lutoslawski - Two Studies for Piano

[afertyus1000]

i love this the second part non troppo allegro seems to be mocking me how would i play it faster?????

[80whiterice]

must ... analyze



[jakegagne]

Any idea where I can find a recording of this? I've scoured the Internet to find an MP3 or even a CD I can buy, but to no avail. And I'm so utterly enchanted by it. :(

[lukefenderrhodes]

@jakegagne LIBRARY

[Messiaenss]

Who plays?

[Stivanification]

the first study really sounds great imho

[titusbeertsen]

The second piece is awesome, sounds quite original. And what's all this Scriabin bashing in the comments here? :(

[toneeeeeee]

@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]

I will have to work a little harder to hear the Chopin in these. In the Szymanowski etudes (do they exist?) I hear Chopin but it is bad Chopin. Anyway, our new Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives, if he throws a party for the Tea Party members, in order to butter them up, these etudes on the piano should be the entertainment, right?

[toneeeeeee]

@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?

[fredericfranc]

@toneeeeeee ...if people hear the Ch. Op.10/1 in this, well, anything is possible... relistened to these re. their suitability for entertaining the radical Republican legislators and I figure they would be no worse than your typical Ligeti efforts...I mean for that purpose of that kind of entertaining...I am kinda prejudiced against Scriabin and will try to struggle against my usual narrowmindedness by listening to as many of these as possible...offhand would think them too sweet...good luck..

[toneeeeeee]

@fredericfranc Gotta love Scriabin man!

I can hear the Op. 10, 1 and I think there's some no. 4 in there as well but that's all I can get..

[fredericfranc]

@toneeeeeee ...after cleaning your ears out with this, you're gonna crap them right back up with Scriabin?...man, what a shame!...and the legislators don't need mysticism....these are the goddamn Republicans!...they need their rear ends reamed out...

[toneeeeeee]

@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.

[fredericfranc]

@toneeeeeee I definitely don't like Scriabin, particularly on the piano...but he gets much more attention from the audiences and the performers than L. ever has a shot at, for better or for worse...My comment about the Republican legislators getting reamed out was essentially musical in intent, i.e. classical music has useful ends in its possibilities of expanding the mind...they would get more usefully expanded with L's piano music than with Scr., who is too traditional for that purpose..

[toneeeeeee]

@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.

[fredericfranc]

@toneeeeeee Possibly with too much facility you tend to equate quality and complexity...I think you tend to ovestate Scr's impact, because you like him...in his lifetime he was often faulted for being TOO MUCH of this or that, i.e. had a tendency to "fall between the two stools" but certainly had a kind of "mystical-Slavic" following...L. is a man of the "next generation" or more, next to Scr., his art "pushes against" the radically modernist environment...inescapably less "traditional", thus.

[toneeeeeee]

@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.

[toneeeeeee]

@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

[fredericfranc]

@toneeeeeee ...I don't particularly have any problems with your description of the impression Scr's piano music makes...in the sense that he has a rather peculiar, distinctive sound...and this may lead to the whole proposition being/amounting to an "acquired taste" that, exactly, needs the acquiring to take place before it is acquired in the past tense...Mr.Lutoslawski, as a composer, is not necessarily infallible, either...

[titusbeertsen]

@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. :)

[AntipovSvyatoslav]

I first thought this was Godowsky version of Chopin etude op 10 no 1 but then I was sevelery wrong

[LongDriveChamp03]

Reminds me a little of Khachaturian mixed with Chopin :D

[davidovich00]

this is so awesome... It sounds atonal but it's awesome in its own way :D

[sclogse1]

It's chromatic...so ask Pat Martino to give it a try.

[Museof34]

Thank you for yours videos-score-music ! I love it. And this two etudes are very exciting ! It's funny to play. Who interpret this score ? (Sorry for this bad english, it's not an isult !)

[psychodorian]

Chopin references... Very enjoyable.

[WitoldLutoslawski]

Sounds like your mom has been practicing... her BLOWJOB skills.

[proud1421]

This song is soo difficult!!!!!

I have to play this song T_T.....how should I practise?????

[Phoenix3568]

@proud1421 slowly with a metronome

[proud1421]

@proud1421 so hard:((

[proud1421]

Awesome =)!!

[Barbapippo]

Who's the pianist? :)

[minikoalavadasz]

0:00-0:07 Marek Drewnowski

[fctchk]

Thank you. A welcome refreshing break indeed from radio stations and concerts who ad nauseum only program 18th and 19th century emaciated warhorses.

[amoxtlacatl]

Insanely wondrous!

Thank you.

[ostrorawr]

The dynamics in the second part are insane. This is beautiful, thanks for posting it!

[kutrikb]

Amazing performance and recording.

Thanks for posting

[Euclid34]

thank you for this i love it when ppl put the sheet music in the background so we can follow :] and the performance was great

[vandgrus]

I was about to stand up and applaude after hearing this, luckily I didn't. My wife would think that I finally cracked. Thanks for the upload!

[lrbol]

MEpianist, thanks for letting us know what's appropriate to compose

[TeeteringBulb]

My God - this is great!

[chrispiano1]

I've just found out that Lutoslawski had the same birthday as me, so I was interested to hear some of his music!

I like it!! :-)

[MEpianist]

this is appropriate against the backdrop of WWII, not for modern American music majors to be composing:)

[tempodimarcia]

Lutoslawski's music can be so severe at times and at others very lush and "pretty." Very nice upload, thanks!

[FabioThePianist]

Thank Asthatis for this upload!

[yuehchopin]

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