Muslit - nothing wrong with sequences (which Scriabin uses a lot, too). Try checking out various Beethoven sonatas, symphonies, almost anything by any great composer - full of them. A powerful and time-honoured technique of musical development.
Are any of these piano sonatas by Roslavets still in print? I do have a book of his shorter pieces, but that's all I have, and all I know about. I'd like to try the sonatas out on the piano. I don't know if it would be possible to somehow print the scores shown in the videos, but I'd really rather buy a proper copy to play from. If anyone can point me to sources for scores, I'd be grateful. Thanks. I really find some of this then-futuristic Russian music quite fascinating.
The texture (Trills and Arabesques), rhythms and melodic angularities are all Scriabin. It's just the harmony that is different. It even looks like Scriabin on the sheet. Would anyone call this original? Not that it matters too much, I quite like it, but then, I'm always on the lookout for more Scriabin.
@ Kalen1457: I do believe you are right.. very late-Scriabinesque
@ Egyptianghetto56: You crack me up.. lol.. then again Scriabin himself was a dabbler in Theosophy and the occult, so perhaps you're not too far from the truth.. lol
Gosh - absolutely incredible stuff! Makes you wonder what Roslavets had been smoking when he came up with this.
Fascinating to follow the score while the music goes. I'd love to explore some more Roslavets, who seems the natural successor to the wonderful Scriabin.
With his thickets of double-flats and -sharps (and the odd triple-flat or - sharp), it must be monstrous to play. Like music from another planet, really.
So glad this composer's music isn't lost after all.
Looks like 7th and 8th Scriabin sonatas; sounds a little like them too. I prefer this to Leo Ornstein, and am glad Hamelin is recording some of this obscure literature. Would I pick this stuff for a desert island over, say, Schumann or Debussy? No.
Muslit - nothing wrong with sequences (which Scriabin uses a lot, too). Try checking out various Beethoven sonatas, symphonies, almost anything by any great composer - full of them. A powerful and time-honoured technique of musical development.
MJE112358132134 2 weeks ago
Are any of these piano sonatas by Roslavets still in print? I do have a book of his shorter pieces, but that's all I have, and all I know about. I'd like to try the sonatas out on the piano. I don't know if it would be possible to somehow print the scores shown in the videos, but I'd really rather buy a proper copy to play from. If anyone can point me to sources for scores, I'd be grateful. Thanks. I really find some of this then-futuristic Russian music quite fascinating.
MJE112358132134 3 months ago
The texture (Trills and Arabesques), rhythms and melodic angularities are all Scriabin. It's just the harmony that is different. It even looks like Scriabin on the sheet. Would anyone call this original? Not that it matters too much, I quite like it, but then, I'm always on the lookout for more Scriabin.
nostromissimo 4 months ago
Truly enjoy this piece...
@ Kalen1457: I do believe you are right.. very late-Scriabinesque
@ Egyptianghetto56: You crack me up.. lol.. then again Scriabin himself was a dabbler in Theosophy and the occult, so perhaps you're not too far from the truth.. lol
@Hexameron: MANY thanks for uploading this.
pianomanhere 8 months ago
an awful lot of sequences
muslit 9 months ago
Gosh - absolutely incredible stuff! Makes you wonder what Roslavets had been smoking when he came up with this.
Fascinating to follow the score while the music goes. I'd love to explore some more Roslavets, who seems the natural successor to the wonderful Scriabin.
With his thickets of double-flats and -sharps (and the odd triple-flat or - sharp), it must be monstrous to play. Like music from another planet, really.
So glad this composer's music isn't lost after all.
MJE112358132134 1 year ago
Very very nice! :)
gonrolgonrol 1 year ago
i heard shit
hohohee1 1 year ago
@hohohee1 To a dog, Shakespeare says "woof"
Sveccha93 10 months ago
Roslavets and Hamelin!! amazing
xodn3300 1 year ago
the beginning is really similar to op. 42 no. 5
elpapaya94 2 years ago
lol yeah it sounds very scriabin-ish
elpapaya94 2 years ago
this is very cool, I like it very much. Thank you for posting it.
Maspixxx 2 years ago
it sounds like Scriabin on acid.
egyptianghetto56 2 years ago 17
everyone quotes hamelin... haha
Danishpianist 2 years ago
I hear some Scriabin piano sonata no.8 here
Kalen1457 2 years ago 7
@Kalen1457 and even some five
Ltlevim 2 years ago
One motif make me think of The Last Tango inParis.
IlDottoreFaustus 2 years ago
this music is so hard to listen to
but when youo get into it it sends shivers down my spine
propa emotional shit mayt
stonehed21 2 years ago
Roslavets finally lands on Youtube! Thanx for posting it
cirillod 2 years ago 2
At 1:37 it sounds like some sections of Scriabin's fifth sonata.
hatake16 3 years ago 3
Yeah sure does!
Kalen1457 2 years ago
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Lukecash12 3 years ago
I dont like this contemporary stuff, I am more off a Chopin, Beethoven kind of guy. lol just kidding.
morvensky 3 years ago
Looks like 7th and 8th Scriabin sonatas; sounds a little like them too. I prefer this to Leo Ornstein, and am glad Hamelin is recording some of this obscure literature. Would I pick this stuff for a desert island over, say, Schumann or Debussy? No.
nearenough3 3 years ago 2
Wooo first comment! Love this serialism!
chrisfactoryboi 3 years ago