Vladimir Sofronitsky plays Scriabin 12 Etudes, Op. 8

[Smaugol]

There´s a caugh on 10:24 :)

[leahgwilliams]

LOVE IT!!!!! HAHAHAHAH!!!!!!! LOVE IT!!!!! Check out my video of this piece.... uni.boober

[yourwierd000]

Thank you so much for posting this!

I have been trying to track down Sofronitsky playing the Op. 8 etudes for a while.

I am wondering if anyone knows where I can find a CD of this... I would very much like to find it and I have been looking everywhere without any success.

[TheCannibalHaddock]

is it just me or is number 6 strikingly similar to Chopin's impromptu 3?

[CoreOgg]

great mustache in any case

[sugarve]

Il migliore pianista di tutti i tempi!!!!

[tweriovnzxclb]

This is great. Only for no. 5 I prefer Richter.

[rachm06]

scriabin is god, and sofronitsky the prophet!

[paerf2]

Personalissimo con qualche instabilità dinamica e ritmica (ma, dato l'autore, ci può stare).

[soami2u]

A MUST for any pianist who loves Scriabin and aspires to play his music....Sofronitsky finds all kinds of nuances in the music that only artists from a vanished age of Romantic piano playing could bring to light....with beautiful sound.  The luminousness, the light and shade...with such a supple mechanism.

[tedly10027]

Thanks very much for sharing. as a pianist myself that has known all these scriabin works for a long time...it's seldom when I can say I "fall in love" with the playing of another pianist.. SOFRONITSKY is one of those. he is as close as I remember how scriabin might be played in its most sophisticated best as a russian teacher tolder me and a very old lady that knew scriabin himself also described to me many years ago.

[MoonSideMKDS]

scriabin looks like a mad scientist lol

[AnnMarry19]

wow;) 3 & 5 is the best ;)

[10121989g]

heeyyy what is wrong with NO.2 I play that hehe...and No.4 is super

[AnnMarry19]

Yes, but I search etude for octaves ;)

[truecrypt]

Try Op. 65 No.3 ;)

[AnnMarry19]

Thank you:)

[10121989g]

bljak...I hate octaves ,big akords because I have small hand...waaa

[cziffra1980]

I don't suppose you have his rare recording of the 6th sonata? I've been attempting to track that one down, with no luck.

[truecrypt]

I'm afraid there is no Sofronitsky's "official" recording of the 6th. No doubt he played it, but seems like there is no recording. I do have 1st Sonata though... I also have Richter's live recording Scriabin 6th - 1955. Will post if you'd like it ;)

[cziffra1980]

Apparently it is on a very rare LP that was released by the Scriabin museum. I'm not 100% sure of its existence but I'm fairly certain that it is out there somewhere. I think I saw a copy listed on ebay once. I think I heard Richter play it once. He's not a favourite Scriabin player of mine generally, but he plays that piece extremely well.

[cziffra1980]

Have you heard Joseph Villa's Scriabin, by the way? His 3rd and 5th are near-perfect clones of Horowitz but his 7th is like no other recording.

[truecrypt]

I don't know Villa's recordings... will check out. There are too much to listen to - simply not enough time ;) As we used to say - if you go to the recitals too often you'll never get to your own! ;)

[weikko79]

I found Villa's recordings a bit boring, since he was so close to Horowitz, like cziffra1980 pointed out. I have only heard the 3rd and 5th sonatas and some smaller pieces (mazurkas, I think), though, not the 7th sonata.

[estudiosinluz]

Woow, can you post the Richter?

Pleeease....

[weikko79]

Thanks for these performances. Sofronitzky's only serious rival in the etudes is Viktor Merzhanov.

[evolsieilrak]

Thank you so much for these recordings! They are fantastic.

[suzettegm]

This is absolutely great, Thank you Truecrypt.

I especially like the rendition of the fourth etude, oh well, actually all of them.About as close as one can get to these works I guess...

[weikko79]

My favorites are nono. 3 & 5.

[tjtheplay]

Thanks =)