Wyschnegradsky - Two Preludes

[PhilPhilUSA]

Great and wonderful music! Thank you!!

[MrFullyawesome]

the 2nd one kicks ass

[iamalittlespy]

Awesome and bold.

[JonathanRabson]

It's too bad that Wyschnegradsky isn't appreciated more today for his musicality and interesting extensions along the lines of Scriabin. Nevertheless, he's very well-known to microtonal aficionados. Probably he isn't better known because he appealed to neither the conservative nor the extreme avant-garde taste. This has always been a problem for composers who are somewhere "in between" the two extremes.

[javiertw89]

Thanks for sharing; I enjoyed this piece very much.

[elisabettapicello]

Sorry but I'm ignorant in matter:

...this preludes can be play with normal piano or with the duble piano's keyboard?

[juanmaMCMLXXXII]

@elisabettapicello With normal piano. It's music tuned normally.

[juanmaMCMLXXXII]

Look for "Wyschnegradsky Twenty- four preludes in Quarter tones". It sounds a bit different ;)

[elisabettapicello]

@juanmaMCMLXXXII

Thanks!!! =)

[juanmaMCMLXXXII]

@elisabettapicello de nada :)

[WinleyCZ]

@ch252525 no

[BGMLV]

I wish I could play that but I ain't there yet :(

Too much jumpin around.

[lovesGenet]

Very easy to follow and stylish .Unlike Scriabin very definite tonal centers and one can anticipate the events.Not what I want. The old fashioned narrative going forward. I'm glad I heard this but I want more Radulescu! Schnittke ,Finnissy and Wuorinen.,Sciarrino.I like it when it is less obvious. I need more contemporary stuff.

[KBMKBMKBMKBM]

i think its really funny when your following the music on these things and then you get to the last note and it changes but you dont see it so the your like oops must have been following it worng and then you nnotice the whole page has changed

[BenUriyahMay]

Thanks for posting the info about his work.

[Hrbmus3]

thank you for learning and posting this difficult to play and neglected music! Whether one likes it or not (and I do like these) we owe you a debt of gratitude for this excellent performance.

[hagiwaramasayuki1205]

i havent expected such a series of composers.......

Very romantic, deep....

Thank you very much for uploading.

It is much more than encycropedia!

[ElVeintitres2323]

That's because this isn't microtonal.

[theletter23]

this is really harmonic sounding for microtonal music. i was beginning to worry "western conditioning" had rendered me incapable of appreciating other systems beyond their darkly eerie invocations.

[stanchinsky]

This isn't one of his "microtonal" works. Check out his quarter tone stuff. Its Beautiful!

[kalduglun]

A funny detail: Ivan Wyschnegradsky is also the name

of a former russian finance minister who lived mostly in the second half of the nineteenth century. He was also a mechanical and maths teacher. According to wikipedia, his position as a finance minister has been successfull at that time since he managed to balance the empire's economy. Like a chief orchestra, he conducted the russian economy in an harmonious way, and that could be the bridge between him and the musician Wyschnegradsky -:)

[MusicalDesert]

This is... too good...

[sawunit]

this would be such a pain to play! especially where the left hand does duplets and triplets at the same time. umm, I disagree with 77orchardjim, I think anyone with classic piano lessons learns that those sixteenths are lead in notes and should thus be building to a stronger eighth note.

[addeex1]

Вышнегра́дский <3

[skryabyn]

wow this is great!

[77orchidjim]

Don't flame me too badly here... I believe that the rhythmic execution of number II Allegro Irato is incorrect. If I am listening to the opening ( and subsequent ) bars and read the music , the em-PHA-sis should not be on the second syl-LA-ble. I.E. not on the dotted eighth, but rather the downbeat on each 16th note. Just seems wrong. Fantastic peice and brilliant playing. Thanks for posting this and all others!

[googlekopfkind]

@Lukecash12 shut up

[Lukecash12]

@googlekopfkind Sorry about that. I wasn't exactly thinking cohesively during that time period.

[classicpiano7]

Thanks for this...cool performance and great bio info. Never knew of this fellow before. Amazing Scriabin's influence...

[carbiscool]

Scriabine's influence for the second but the first one seems more related to szymanowky to me. Interesting pieces.

[cholapat]

thanks for this VDO

[coqdorysme]

very interesting! Definitely scriabinesque, I especially like the minor ninths in the first prelude.

...omg now i wanna play them

[scriabinwasmydad]

very good!!! I have been studying his music for quite some time and evem taught his etude 'sur le carre magique sonore' recently ... thanks for this!!! XD