Ornstein - Arabesques

[MagicDolphinGO]

look at those parallel fifths. what awful voice leading

[davidwhorton95]

@MagicDolphinGO This is, of course, not following the established principles of tonal harmony. Compositional license.

[MagicDolphinGO]

@davidwhorton95 my life is a lie

[musicalidea]

This is what the industrialist father is thinking as he gazes out over the grey city in the movie Metropolis.

[davtones]

is this Hamelin?

[miblodelcarpio]

I love the fact that No. 2 is in 4/8. They're probably the slowest quavers in the history of music.

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

ok that's it, i've decided i'm learning these one day... although some of it looks incredibly scary.

[huzzzzzzahh]

@thinkgreenlovepurple like the sixty-fourth note chords?

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

@huzzzzzzahh and the huge chords, and all the staves... :) But I'm determined, I'm going to learn it one day.

I think the 2nd arabesque is my favourite... but I don't know if it's possible for me to play it!

[huzzzzzzahh]

@thinkgreenlovepurple if you spend enough time on it you will get it, i have been playing piano for just over a year, and I'm already learning un sospiro.

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

@huzzzzzzahh Well thanks for the encouragement. :) The thing is for quite a few of the arabesques, such as Primal Echo, I can't reach those consecutive ninths and other large chords. And I have a bunch of other (exam) pieces I have to work on! But I love Un Sospiro, will you post a video of yourself playing it some day?

[huzzzzzzahh]

I can't decide if I love or hate number 2

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

my first time listening to this, it's pure genius!

[krzyzewski591]

what album is this off of??

[mahler151]

Am I the only who always thinks of H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Fungi from Yoogoth' whenever I hear one of Orenstein's dissonant pieces?

[kolozs3]

Ornstein is a (musical) Messiah, and Hamelin is his Prophet!

[uhartchristian]

this composer is a genious. I do prefer his music a thousand times to the works of the composer Messiaen . why? His harmonic structure is much more logic.

[shadowknight132]

at 1:05 remind me of a song I've composed a while ago using tritones.

[ex0rc1s7]

stop doin' drugs :\

[X000Y0TTA]

@ex0rc1s7 fck u

[mrJonnyBruno]

5 stars ;)

[dlipatti]

Interesting piece and great playing, not like the other Ornstein piano interpretations on youtube - go Hamelin!

[FrankMazeppa]

This makes Bartok seem conventional....

[NoirOrchestre]

@FrankMazeppa This is a total uninteresting thing to say.

[comrademarxist]

It's hard to imagine anything that's more violently dissonant than the second Arabesque. Shocking!

[Lukecash12]

Almost as comforting as a Chopin Nocturne. Interpretive and compositional genius. It's rather depressive for a few measures, and then becomes rather joking, loving, maybe even endearing.