Skriabin, Etude No 5, Op. 42, Ivaila Ivanova, www.ivaila.com

[marginallymental]

Oh, and by the way, this piece will send your hands cramping to hell. Months later, I've only mastered the first and the last page. It is my fate to fall in love with imposible music that I can never have...

[marginallymental]

Finally. A pianist who "gets" Alex Scriabin. Lovely---a passionate, driven, edgy piece, one of my favorites, and certainly the best in Op. 42.  How awful Ivaila felt she could no longer continue in Bulgarian music. Come to America, Ivaila! I'd personally save up dollars and buy a plane ticket to see you anywhere.

[ungava100]

Please do not be discouraged with piano performance. My daughter played the Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 2 with symphony at age 15. She abandoned her music education so there would be enough money left to educate her siblings. Now she is a successful attorney who supports her parents and stuns university music professors with her piano performances. You are already a virtuoso. If bitterness is a problem you don't have to play locally. You have an international audience now.

[raylegea]

You play very well, keep it up!

[tsatchev]

Hello,

I want to thank you for looking Ivaila's videos and for the nice comments you posted. (if posted)

The thing is that Ivaila is one of the best Bulgarian pianists, but she decided to close her career because of the reality in Bulgaria. (corruption and envy in music). There are few more of her records I will upload soon and that will be all from her. Thank you very much again.

Best,

tsatchev

[ungava100]

If you can find the money somehow, you might give some thought to finding a professional recording environment. Your playing of this difficult piece is more than excellent. Anyone who already plays this piece easily discerns how well you played it, but if one doesnt already know the notes, your solid and clean technique is lost in a harmful blur of vastly inadequate acoustics. Keep up the good work.

[rationalistx]

Beautiful girl,beautiful piece,beautiful playing...

[bubuzuna]

Bravo Ivaila!

[GFSKONSTART]

WOW! Fantastic! Thank you!

[sanyapotapov]

Keep pressing the replay button.

[dangunwangum]

Just incredible. Piano after all is inanimate. It's nothing but wood and some strings. When the artist like Ivalia puts her soul into it, it becomes alive.

Please perform in the U.S.!

[MusicDoLove]

This is excellent! I am very impressed!