Lyapunov - Piano Sonata in F minor (Part 1/3)

[cedricrlongreen]

I never get tired of listening to this

[cedricrlongreen]

Yay! I've decided to learn this piece

[MikJFr]

I LOVE all those late-late Romantics who, as Mr.Hexameron's 'blurb' puts it, "rejected the new aesthetics of Scriabin, Prokofiev, and Stravinsky, preferring the models and sound world of late Romanticism." Many of them seem to be Russians, possibly an expression of the conservative and spiritual side of the Russian psyche.

[Bakerd8]

How many movements are there? 3?

[dolcesfogato]

i played this really astonishing piece a few times in concert, the audience loved it, so did I, but how to convince the world that this is as good as the Liszt-sonata, or better, well, to say the least: ' different' , it's Liszt's pianistics combined with the ' Mighty Handful ' , and a lot more pianistic than the eternal Pictures...

[Nielsenesque]

By the way, the opening movement of this work reminds me a lot of the first movement of Medtner's Piano Sonata in F minor.

[Nielsenesque]

Thanks for posting this. I love Lyapunov's work, and I keep coming back to listen to this. I agree: the influences of Liszt and Balakirev are present, but there's a lot of unique music going on, as well. Lyapunov is great at creating harp sounds and running water noises on the piano.

[cedricrlongreen]

It's like a mixture of Liszt ,Rachmaninoff and Balakirev mixed together but still Lyapunov's own style. I love it!

[cedricrlongreen]

So Rich and emotional. I love this piece and am glad I found this page. Definitely learning this!

[chutdigadut]

I need to listen too and play WAY more if THIS composer!

[scriabin007]

nice piece....i nerver heard in concert! But it seems to me really romanitcal sonata!

[turboturbante]

Lovely sonata! I find Lyapunov's style adorable.

[f1f1s]

Oooh, I adore Alkan... And for sure there are invisible pieces of him in this piece... But Lyapunov couldn't guess this. =p

[RichardMartin2]

Hexameron, thank you for posting these! The idea of having the score up there so you can read it as you hear the music is brilliant - helps me a lot as I don't ever have to get stuck trying to figure out the harmony.

[Rachmanomaniac]

This is genius, I love his transcendental too.

[JCHBONNET]

Although some courageous pianists start to defend lesser known Russian composers such as Lyapunov or Medtner, I am just wondering how many wonderful works and extraordinary composers may never have a chance to be re-discovered.

[Hexameron]

The list of late Romantic early 20th-century Russian composer-pianists who have written worthy piano music is long. I have seen a number of impressive scores, but no one is recording them: Akimenko, Rebikov, Eiges, Dobrowen, Drozdov, Melkikh, Dianov, Pawlov, Abrahmsky... it goes on and on.

[JCHBONNET]

!!! I thought I had an extensive knowledge of unknown composers but your expertise obviously exceeds mine by far. Although, I certainly knew Lyapounov or Medtner, all the names you have listed are fully unknown to me (with the exception of Dobrowen who I believe is better known as a conductor : he conducted Medtner's concertos with the composer playing).

By the way I have posted a few more videos (Bliss and Beach's concertos).

[eusebium7]

@Hexameron

At least Catoire and Feinberg are being recorded

As is York Bowen (English though)

There have been recordings of Rebikov, I am sure of that, but Dobrowen and Akimenko exist to me only as names in dictionaries...OTOH the rest I have never even heard of

[eusebium7]

@Hexameron

Any Jelobinsky (Zhelobinsky?) amongst your recordings?

[MrFrenchBulldog]

This is a noble work.

[mickyj300x]

Amazing.

[pernishus]

Many thanks for making this available!