Vladimir Sofronitsky plays Scriabin Valse op. 38

[celticcelticwger066]

amazingly played

[TheStefanNestor]

ahh...How suave....!

Thank you truecrypt !

[xodn3300]

too good

[VirtuousR]

thank you.

[balaurusu]

How can you yearn for an ideal love and already be reminiscent of it?

[lambbroadway]

It is a really nice piece, great performance. Gotta get it on cd!

Thanx for the upload!

[sir1920]

@espejosgigantes the ideas are very beautiful but i feel there is something wrong with the form...

[titusbeertsen]

@espejosgigantes How come that you don't like Scriabin's music? I would think it to be impossible not to love his early pieces, sonata 2 for example. His later music is an acquired taste perhaps.

[jbp27]

FASCINATING.

[demosj]

Fascinating performance, somehow it captures the "mystical" feeling in an almost tangible way.

[konstantinoupianist]

thanks!



[iulianik]

Уважаемый господин !Какого года эта запись,И не из Малого ли зала в 1961году?

[billyguns2]

I took the trouble to leave a lovely comment, which was not accepted. ?

[truecrypt]

@billyguns2

I can see all your comments and, of course, your comments are always more than welcome!

[billyguns2]

@truecrypt Ah, I can see all of the comments now; sorry, it must have been a glitch on YouTube that prevented me from seing them previously. Many thanks for your wonderful channel!

[billyguns2]

Rather like a reminiscence of a waltz, a la Ravel's LA VALSE; enchanting, and enchantingly played. Scriabin speaks to Sofronitsky on a very deep level, and he is my favorite player of the wondrous composer.

[wogandmush]

Skryabin's daughter is a ride.

[voolare]

It's impressive how deeply he understood this piece and made it his! 6 and a half minutes of pure music!

[sugarve]

Il più grande pianista di tutti i tempi !!

[bleriot100]

Enchanting music enchantingly played. To hear it is to leave the Everyday behind and float among the spheres.

[werq34ac]

It was very nice, but was he deviating from the score?? at 1:54-2:20

[pkarkivist]

yep, but it fits really nice though...

[werq34ac]

unless you were to follow along, you wouldn't notice at all. But it does sound nice.

[chacoteris]

Sofronitsky is a formidable pianist. Thank you Truecrypt for giving me so much delight. For a 77 yrs. old youngster like me to have all these jewels at my reach is almost a miracle.

[morinoroba]

ただただ、美しい・・・。

[tedly10027]

i also used to play this waltz a lot and other scriabin stuff like the fantasie and sonatas...but there's an EARLY work op.1 if i remember correctly - E flat minor title "APPASSIONATO" that is FIENDISHLY difficult, ferocious, like a onemovement concerto, but has a heavenly contrasting lyrical section..heavenly! if anyone can find a recording, please post, preferably the old pianmists. Thanks. used to love pairing it with op.1 PASSACAGLIA by Dohnanyi which is GORGEOUS also.

[tedly10027]

it is true that Scriabin's ideas must have been reflected closest by sofronistky. in my studies of the piano repertoire - a russian teacher i had that knew richter , ashkenazy, davidovic as classmates ,and studied with samuel feinberg primarily, at times brought me to a VERY old lady - russian pianist, writer, painter, in her tiny little apartment - to play for her . SHE knew scriabin as a child and growing up..and confirmed certain styles that are prominent in sofronitsky's.

[ericpaulpianist]

If anyone is critical of Sofronitsky, let him/her listen to recordings of his father in law: Scriabin himself. You will hear the same improvisational approach, and so called "unrhythmical, wrong lines". Sviatoslav Richter himself toasted Sofronitsky and proclaimed him to be a god. Most remarkable...Richter's unfailing rhythm and long musical lines where exemplary...sorry...NOSEhow2LI­V, you are disagreeing with (probably) the greatest pianist of the 20th century: Sviatoslav Richter...

[tedly10027]

absolutely true. in some works scriabin can be strict in rythm, or rather..EMPHATIC in metrica feeling. this is just a type of his music where the emphasis is on the "ethereal", or what a teacher of mine called: "seemingly indeterminate and improvised but precise feelings ". Leaps and LEGATO octaves in the climax can be frightening as it is like having four hands playing to cover the expanse:LH leaps in accompaniment, RH divided between the upswing flourish and the counterpoint middle voice.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Why can't i like it better?I really question because so many worshippers... But wrong rythms, wrong lines, lumpy middle part, meandering lack of elan at start turns to blundering confusion in final reprise...Okay, it's live, but..

Obviously i'm missing the higher, rarified meaning, and to hell with basics!

[777cc777]

bear in mind that Sofronitsky didn't like recording ~ he called recordings his 'corpses' ~ implying at least that there were/are many different types of performance of these rich works available... what he chose to bring out this day doesn't necessarily reflect a pinnacle of his style or definitive performance of the piece

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Yes, but this is "live" first& foremost. I would be more forgiving if there would be a disclaimer such as: "A great artist, not at his best, but with flashes of genius, recognisable to those who understand...."

But for an outsider, like myself who never heard him "live", there's just too much missing and too much blundering. I'm really sorry i can't like this, partly also cos it's a favorite piece with deep personal associations!

[777cc777]

No need to be sorry NOSEhow ~ everyone is entitled to respond to music as they wish of course. Yes it's a really special piece, and I would say for sure that he played it 'better' at other times, and perhaps in ways more accessible to certain styles of listening as well. There are other performances of this on YT ~ hopefully more yet to come as well... j'espere :)

[weikko79]

Great as usual. Thank you, Truecrypt!

[Ravel87]

I'd say similar level, not same.

[AlexShulhan123]

Scriabin is on the same level of Bach in my opinion for musical genius.

[weikko79]

A bit of an exaggeration, don't you think?

[pjioayncoe]

Or a bit of an understatement?

[Sinfoniette]

Or maybe the precise truth?

[MagicSkryabin]

I'm back !! i read in a book that Scriabin really liked that valse: it was one of his favourite work !

[alfon87]

I've often thought that Scriabin superbed even Chopin's beautiness, and this waltz just confirm it. Such a great melody only brings me glorious and sad memories. No words.

[SarrasaniPianoCircus]

Ah, no words......and those photos..

[pjioayncoe]

This is the Scriabin I like.

[beethoven4ever]

Thank you TC, i am currently officially addicted to Sofronitsky and it's all your fault.

[jerkhyden]

Intense.

[paulostroff99]

Scriabins widow said that only Sofronitsky did her husband's music justice.Bravo! TY.

[LVB1770]

truecrypt, Is that Scriabin's daughter with Sofronitsky?

[truecrypt]

Yes, it's Scriabin's daughter and Sofronitsky's wife.

[Quuee7n]

Many people wrote they'd never seen more handsome man than Sofronitsky.

[sir1920]

@Quuee7n well ima sezy beast! but yeah he looks good. a true romantic.

[charlottevk]

Thank you Truecrypt

[MagicSkryabin]

I love that valse !!!

[chad410]

Sofrinitsky has a way of almost improvising as he plays

[rachm06]

incredible performance, this is one of the best scriabin performers without doubt.

[guirlandes3]

Sofronitsky was not one of the best interpreters of Scriabin. He was just the best, period.

[smithsherman]

There's no doubt in my mind that Sofronitsky is Scriabin's bastard child...because nobody...and I do mean Nobody(including Richter-who played some Scriabin remarkably)

ever so consistently turns this music into something so far beyond music...that even the thought of Music now seems pedestrian.

The physical pitch sequences come from a score...but nothing else.This is a brilliantly practised Aesthetic intuition playing that to which it is most suited dispositionally.

[gerryrains]

SS,

Hardly a bastard child - think son-in-law.

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