Protopopov - Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 5 (Part 1/2)

[auerod]

Natural for fans of Roslavets to should enjoy this. I can't get enough of late Liszt/Soviet Avant-Gardist music. Unbelievably atmospheric and expressionistic!

[evilpacman1742]

I feel like my beliefs have been blasphemous this whole time. Until I heard this, I was under the impression that The Residents pioneered avant-garde music. Now I know where The Residents got their influence from. WOW. It is now my goal in life to play this song.

[TheRealLordRama]

@evilpacman1742 There's a ton of avant-garde "classical" composers you should be interested in. The 2nd Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern), Stockhausen, Varese, Berio, Ustvolskaya, Messiaen, Nancarrow, Ligeti, Penderecki, Partch, George Crumb, Gloria Coates... just tons! Not to mention legions of avant-jazz artists, a genre I'm less familiar with unfortunately. Not sure how any of those relate to the Residents, but avant-garde music is a very old thing.

[LesbianStraightGay]

@TheRealLordRama I would also mention Luigi Russolo - one of the earliest avantgardists.

[BOARBIG]

The best piano piece I've ever heard.

[KeithWhalen11]

By the way Larry Sitsky's books are incredibly hard to get and extremely expensive! I've been meaning to look into "Music of the Repressed Russian Avant-Garde" but it's selling for roughly 110$. I could always get the amazon used copy for $186.48 though hahaha.

[HandyTheXxxX]

@KeithWhalen11

It's weird to know that I've actually met Larry and played in the world premiere of his C-major Symphony. He's a bit pompous I must say. A bit on his high horse! :D

[mickyj300x]

How on earth did Schleiermacher get a piano that could play that high C# at 1:11?

[Traviangamer]

Bösendorfer 290 Imperial...

[a1s2d3f4g5q1w2e3]

@mickyj300x It's a high C, tuned slightly sharper than normal - but not quite a C#. Stuart and Sons is the only manufacturer at present, it seems, that makes pianos that go up to F

[OniyukiRyuken]

@a1s2d3f4g5q1w2e3 Bosendorfer Emperor, the 97 key monstrosity also goes up to F in both ends of the keyboard, I do love Stuart and Sons because they combine the Felt double-layering of Kawaii, with the Steinway-esque release action, with the Bosendorfer F to F range, with the Fazioli 4th pedal that simply moves the hammers closer rather than going to Una Corda...and they have awesome woods...granted these pianos are insanely expensive but they definitely are worth it.

[KeithWhalen11]

Too bad Protopopov's output is so small, maybe therein lies the intrigue though. I love this piece.

[JalalSela]

Seems that this piece reminds you guys with anything but itself lol, thanks for the video Hexameron, I really enjoy most of what you upload, even if it does sometimes reminds me with something else ... :-P

[Sesquiltera]

6:00 reminds me of the beginning of Coplands piano variations.

[egyptianghetto56]

The beginning reminds me of Ornstein's "Suicide in an Airplane"

[CZARDASMACABRE]

Parfaitement d'accord! même climat!!

[playadom]

hah, me too

[superstition222]

Now this is one I can get into.

[wanjabelaga]

did not hear it before.

thank you for posting.

compliment to schleiermacher

[John11inch]

The chord progressions in those crashing passages are so simple, but still sound so other-worldly. This piece is really one of the pinnacles of this era. You wouldn't happen to have either of the other two sonatas, would you?

[Hexameron]

Protopopov is a strange figure. He wrote only 3 piano sonatas and some vocal works; nothing else. I do have the score of the 1st sonata but no extant recordings. We're lucky Schleiermacher paid any attention at all to this guy in his Soviet Avant-Garde recordings.

[John11inch]

You're welcome ;)

And look into Skrowaczewski.

[nearenough3]

Scriabin chords all over the place. But I love S so it's nice to hear a reincarnation of, or hint of, what he might have done.

[superstition222]

Well, it's very much like Roslavets' music. Check out the Hamelin disc of that. It's great.

[4444matthew4444]

I am going to give you a piece of advice: Put some where in you info or title 'sheet and music.....It will help people find this...honestly I thought I had heard all of the sheet and music vids but here are some with some composers I HAVE NEVER HEARD!!

[amilava1]

Hey man,

Thanks allot for posting all of these important videos. This is really amazing!

[bartje11]

Whatever it is, it's fascinating music, and totally different from Scriabn.

[Hexameron]

Not many realize that there were other great pianist-composers in Russia writing in the vein of Scriabin and Rachmaninov. Sabaneev, Weprik, Melkikh, Lourie, Drozdov, Feinberg, Goldenweiser, Roslavets, Krein, Rebikov, Stanchinsky, Alexandrov: all exquisite composers that Scriabin fans should pay homage to.