Scriabin plays Scriabin Prelude Op.11 No.13

[MEpianist]

Every voice in this prelude is being played so prominently... I can't even decide which onne to listen to.

[ThatMysteryPianist]

I grew up with a Welte-Mignon reproducing system in the grand piano at my grandparent's house. We had this roll, though the roll was marked at a faster tempo than this. These rolls infuluenced my own playing. When the reproducing pianos are playing at their best, there's nothing quite like the experience. They were carefully engineered and often quite faithful to the actual performance. I'm grateful that these are being distributed on CD now for all to enjoy.

[musicinmusic]

SO why isn't quality bad?

[gymgymgymgym]

Does anyone else hear slight rhythmic anomalies, parts when it sounds like a slip or something? Is that because of how it was recorded ? I've noticed it in his other recordings as well.

[LVB1770]

Hi gymgymgymgym,

These were recorded from piano rolls so it has nothing to do with the recording. Scriabin

used a lot of rubato, listen to his Op.22 #1 on you tube. At the end he takes off like a

speeding, crashing out of control rocket! It is almost impossible to Imitate.

[marmasiotis]

@gymgymgymgym It seems to be a general problem the last time in youtube. As if short interferences (like sound gaps) slide in. Almost every video has these problems, but you can detect these better in pur music videos..it´s very annoying.

[gymgymgymgym]

@marmasiotis I have this recording and others of Scriabin playing on CD, it is the same when played from the CD.

[MJTTOMB]

i'm definitely inclined to believe this is scriabin, both by the beauty of the interpretation, and by a couple subtleties. at 0:18, he rolls the right-hand chord that spans a tenth. scriabin could only reach a ninth due to the size of his hands so it seems to me this kind of roll would be a natural solution to the problem. the same thing can be heard at around 0:50.

[steamednotfried]

@MJTTOMB regarding the comfortable reach of Scriabin, the same can be said of many pianists. Same with the beauty.

[hellomate639]

Given the quality of the sound in this recording, I'm a little skeptical that it's Scriabin since he died in 1915(and there aren't even Rachmaninoff recordings with this sound quality and he died in 1943).

People lie on YT all the time...

[LVB1770]

hellomate639,

Scriabin played this on the M.Welte & Soehne piano rolls in Moscow 1910.

It is Scriabin playing. The audio recording was a recording of the piano roll. The CD

was released in 2004.

[hellomate639]

@LVB1770

Ah.

Well, I don't know why everyone had to fucking rate my comment down for being weary! Haven't you all heard about the La Campanella recording where "Rubinstein" is actually a Japanese guy that few people have ever heard of?

[sir1920]

that melody! so romantic.

[cyncyn0824]

More Scriabin playing his own Prelude Op 11 #13. (Okay -- moved on now to a Scriabin obsession plain and simple, I guess.)

[allanikitskaya]

It is so Amazing to listen how Skriabin playes Skriabin!

Thank you for sharing this recording!!!

[kiasmus]

It's wonderful to realize that a sort of Scriabin-cult has emerged on You Tube. Very few musicians -perhaps only Wagner-, arouse such passionate devotion in their admirers.

[flutepoet]

you are right, the best combination is composer- player in my point of view and it wasalmost untill the and of 19 century very often so, there are many examples,.......

[savethetrees433]

Scriabin was magnificently ahead of his time, in terms of compositional style and interpretation. The piano pieces he wrote wouldn't be out of place with New Age music today, yet it still conforms to the period he wrote him. Playing/listening to his music gives me a sort of transcendental state of mind. Thank you for posting this.

[mahler151]

That first picture's Scriabin? Looks nothing like the bearded, older one.

[oelefante]

I sometimes feel sad of how unnapreciated Scriabin`s music is. But when i come here on youtube, and see that, despite the low number of exibitions, people commenting on the videos just have him on such a high regard (almost as much as me haha), i realize that his music is at least getting the qualitative attention it deserves. Really, my life has certainly changed after his music, i dont know if im the only one to feel that way.

[COCOONFABULA]

My live changed too

[manictiger]

This just gave me an idea. Given that I can hear where it would have been softer and louder, someone could/should set up a "piano roll enhancement" service, whereby, they update the piano roll dynamics to more accurately reflect what it would/should sound like. This would obviously require someone with a good ear, but, it seems possible enough.

[nmcil]

I just love this composer - our dance teacher introduced his music to her studients - to actually hear even a little of what his playing was is awesome.

[Joebaseball11]

I'm playing this peice right now and I absolutly love it! It is so beutiful and romantic and I love being able to do body monement in a peice.

(By the way, I'm using my brother's acount now. I just stopped playing to listen to how he did a section and did not want to sign on to my account!)

[hinatachansama]

is this julian skrjabin at  :10?

[Erge08]

Yes, it's him. A very sad story. Julian composed a couple of very interesting pieces (i. e. 4 beautiful préludes) at a very young age. I was wondering what would become of him and his music if he didn't die tragically in a boating accident.

[nocturne163]

so beautiful !^^

[princenosiatajansen]

yes, scriabin...... my god. this is toooooooooo god dor us.... us normal piano players...

[davidpolkmusic]

hearing him play his own music has ruined every other musician's performance for me. anything i've heard that is from these piano rolls, i can't listen to other people play.! it just doesn't even come close to what he does.....doesn't even sound like the same music.

[LVB1770]

davidpolkmusic,

To hear the closest thing to Scriabin's playing search you tube for Sofronitsky. He was married to Scriabin's daughter.

[anferlo]

@LVB1770 I don't agree. Nothing better than the author and more with scriabin, he had a great "inner" life, despite of the quality of the sound or the tempo mistakes,

[TheRedArmy10]

@LVB1770 Absolutely! Sofronitsky was an exceptional Scriabin performer, if not the best. Along with Heinrich Neuhaus. Some of his (V. S.) works weren't too good (for example his 12th Etude op. 8) but in general it was fantastic!

[facellina]

The first picture of him is so sweet!

[cattleman6420012000]

Incedible to hear his playing. he was such a deep and sensitive musician. His music is so deep.

[SeadogDriftwood]

The CD is every bit as beautiful as I expected.

Scriabin is really, REALLY underappreciated. His music was never worse than "quite good indeed" or "very good". His earlier and mid-period stuff is accessable and enthrallingly, captivatingly beautiful, and his later, idiosyncratic work is filled with a mysterious, strangely hypnotic beauty, Almost anticipating 12-tone music, but always better-sounding.

If only he'd finished the Mysterium, then 20th C. music would surely have been very different...

[Neongrapes]

I 100% agree with you! Scriabin's harmonic system is much more complicated and original than Schoenberg's 12-tone. Like you said if he would've lived he would have changed the face of music.

[WAMEDJO]

You could add : Scriabin's system is a musical one

[Neongrapes]

Yes of course, it was a musical one. Scriabin is to the core a musician, and a romantic and mystic; this is why his music is neglected; because his music intimidates and befuddles the average person, who lives with no wonder and imagination in their life.

[morinoroba]

What a humane performance！

・・・・・Very beautiful！

Thank you.

[dirtysney24]

his wifes a dime

[tan73h]

nice moustache

[COCOONFABULA]

I find it horrible but anyway it's not important

[charold3]

A carbunkle under that stache killed him when he was 42.

[babyGirlKelli]

Scriabin never ceases to amaze ..his use of tonality is very elegantly displayed in this piece, though i prefer his use of the more radical theories in some of his other pieces.

[pjioayncoe]

One of my favorite preludes...Scriabin was so handsome without that mustache, but more alluring with it...Thank you for sharing this and all the pictures.

[Mantis06]

The most beautiful version of this piece I've heard.

[trevjr]

wow i have been playing this prelude for over 30 years, and to hear scriabin for the first time just blows my mind. i love his music like no other.

[ragtimemarkbirnbaum]

fabulous playing of an adorable piece

thx

m

[madero111]

Hey this is "Dope"! I have been listening to Alexander since the mid 1960's.

I am a 65 year old Hoodrat and i'm telling you that i enjoy a lot of the stuff that the 'Romantic' composers were doing; Rachmaninoff(nov). I am a Wagner freak too!

Snoop Dogg to Amy Winehouse. Rachel Z.

My enjoyment of music....never get stuck in any one genre'! Liberace' and Tower of Power awaits us!

YumSalad i see that you are listening.

[LVB1770]

madero111, Sounds like your taste in music is as wide as mine! Right now, I am stuck Scriabin. I recently took a piano lesson with his great grandson but had to stop because of money reasons. I want to start again when I can. I use to play a lot of Tower of Power on drums! As for Liberace, I played a bunch of his old pianos once in Las Vegas.

[jazzlover06]

good for you! (seriously!)

I think you will notice I am in a similar situation judging from my screen name!

[madero111]

Hey dog i'm impressed.....you actually took a lesson from Scribby's great grandson!

I would love to have been there to play on Liberace's piano's; i love the touch of a grand piano.

I'm a retired R$B drummer (i'm partial to heavy funk).....also hard-core jazz!

I was mostly on the road for 15 years.

Piano is a hobby (i stink too) but i love a lot of jazz and some classical piano stuff.

Your're stuck on Scriabin now and i'm stuck too on Amanda Tosoff for now.

Life is fun...i'm retired!

[clipwip]

I love the first picture! I personally wouldn't be caught dead in a hat like that, but then if I was Scriabin, I probably wouldn't be too concerned!

[LVB1770]

clipwip, Funny. Looks like it was really hot out that day. This one of the only pictures of him without his mustache.

[OmarFadul]

What is the name of the CD with Scriabin playing his own music??

[LVB1770]

OmarFadul, it's called,

Alexander Scriabin: The Composer as Pianist.

You can get it on Amazon.

[beeteep60]

whats the name of the cd with Scriabin's paino rolls on it?

[LVB1770]

beeteep60 , it's called,

Alexander Scriabin: The Composer as Pianist.

You can get it on Amazon.

[antoinezygfryd]

Dans un tel paradis je veux bien aller!

[yumsalad]

A composer for composers.

Magic at :49 - :51

[skryabyn]

The harmonic progression- so subtle- gives this peice such a calming quality. Love it!

[LVB1770]

skryabyn, I was just fingering this piece today.

I love this prelude!

[skryabyn]

The whole opus 11 is great

[MagicSkryabin]

Love it, thanks!

PS: Wow the first 2 photos.. i never saw them before! ! !!

[LVB1770]

Thank you MagicSkryabin! It's from a rare book I have of Scriabin's life.

[skryabyn]

What book is that?

[LVB1770]

skryabyn,

From, Scriabin His life and times by Rudakova and Kandinsky.