Leo Ornstein - A La Chinoise Op.39

[llethaface11]

the very end chord sounds like my soul has shattered like glass, i got scared

[GentleGinjeet]

@llethaface11 EXACTLY!

[TylerFullStickTT]

debussy's feux and ravel's une barque take a stroll together. Fabulous.

[akamarutv]

I don't get it, isn't there any nice dissonant music that isn;t so loud?

[jon1carlo]

@akamarutv Webern?

[picchi93]

Sublime: terrifying but fascinating at the same time. I Like It

[300musicmaster]

as close to a harp as a piano can get

[TheWanderingNight]

I'm sure I'm not the only who noticed this, but this reminds me of the lighter sections of Debussy's "Feux d'artifice".

[amyleeluvr]

It reminds me of my life....in fact, all of Ornstein's pieces remind me of my life. He is such a great composer!

[mafiosogiacomo]

magnificently played - not easy!!!

[mohamedalyfarag]

most beautiful use of clusters ever!

[uhartchristian]

cet oeuvre est tres impressionist style. very very interesting music!!!!!

[lorenzarthur91]

impressing. but why this last chord?

[sweetdude3000]

@lorenzarthur91 haha i know

[flic71]

fantastico!!!

[joernbroeker]

around 2:24 reminds me a bit of debussy

[faleru]

its funny

[ktm64]

One of my favorite songs technichally--looks almost impossible to keep everything in rhythm when it seems like a bunch of chaos--organized chaos, mind you. Love Ornstein.

[94HamMan]

At 2:10 he loses the right hand's pattern a little.

[Gollam12]

i dont hear it, but if you're right, i think we can forgive :)

[94HamMan]

@Gollam12 yes we can. :)

[ChicorelliOfficial]

this is one pianist not 4 hand piano right?

[123eldest]

of course

[MagicDonDino]

Wow reminds me Ravel!

Thanks for post!

[HandyTheXxxX]

@MagicDonDino It should, Ravel amongst other impressionistic composers did tend to use similar scales and modes, including the Pentatonic scale, which is featured here.

[stilsonkidd]

He out-"chinoiseries" Ravel even! Love this! I can't choose between this and Suicide in an Airplane.

[sexxxymayo69]

Love it (: I'm working on playing it right now actually.

[kassurin]

genial

[coaster1000]

Genious!

[scarsunseen24]

Very Ravel-like, especially with the pentatonic scale.

[Chainedorlo]

The pentatonic scale is trying to make it sound somewhat Chinese if I'm not mistaking.

[aphetica]

that's because Chinese music is based on pentatonic scales....

[vincecharus]

super nice!!!

This is 'neo-impressionistic' stuff. Haha!

[cheekychiko]

very ravel!!! nice one, i like it :)

[tophue]

how is this possible with only two hands?

[XavierMac]

It's possible. You just have to be efficient. You think that's bad, check out Stravinsky's Three Pieces from Petrushka for piano. Hahaha... the last movements goes into 4 staves at once.

[xiphoid13]

talk about opus clavicembalisticum (5 staves)

[ownage1810]

Ha, Synophai, 10 staves.

[HandyTheXxxX]

One of Ornsteins poems of 1917 goes into 6 staves

[JanaFaukner]

If, I'm not mistaken, there is a passage in Synaphai that contains 16 separate rhytmical lines, but then again, I do not own the score of the piece.

[ScriabinFanatic]

They break it into more than two staves to more clearly show the different lines of music.

[JanaFaukner]

No, actually I do remember a listener of contemporary musi well-versed in it's scores claiming, that there is one place in Synaphai where the pianist must play on 16 "focal points" at once. He could have been wrong of course. And anyway, I'm extremely interested in seeing the score of that piece.

[Lualaba]

This conjures great imagery for me.

[Lualaba]

elegant dissonance... fantastic!!!

[krakus5813]

@Lualaba I really love that concept: elegant dissonance, you are great

[bloodjunkiepr18]

So trippy...

I wish I could play like this on guitar...

[systemlink93]

@bloodjunkiepr18 listen to some late scriabin lol