Richter plays Scriabin: Sonata no. 5, Op 53 (old version)

Another Skrjabin performance by Richter.... enjoy :) The file I uploaded was around 13,4 megabytes so you might have to be patient while it loads...
And I don't know why the video no longer fits together with the music in the end... I'm sure it looked fine in the video editor :S

"I summon you to life, hidden aspirations!
You, buried in the dark depths
Of the creative spirit, you, timid
Embryos of life, to you I bring daring."

(The Poem of Ecstacy, p. 11)

This was in the notes put I couldn't include it in the video, so I wrote it down here, in case it's important to the piece :P

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Scriabin
• Skrjabin
• Alexander
• Richter
• Sviatoslav
• Piano
• Sonata
• No.
• sharp
• major
• Op.
• 53

[ibclappin]

i think in the beginning they drop richter onto the stage from big height - part of the entertaining show, you know - and he lands right on the piano, and pretends it's the start of the piece and just continues on.

[luke1841]

Words cannot describe how much I love Richter's interpretation of this piece. I also have Horowitz's as well, but this version is far more powerful, brooding, and epic in its presentation and delivery. Its almost creepy and eerie to me, and it reminds me of edgar allen poe poems...

[XavierMacX]

@annefrankisaho I can't speak for him... but I can give you some ideas I have. Ravel - La Gaspard de la Nuit, Miroirs. Prokofiev - Sonata No. 6. Stravinsky - Petrouchka (piano solo version obviously). Scriabin - Sonatas 6, 7, 8 for various reasons. And a lot of other stuff to get you started.

The hardest part about this sonata are the damn INSANE jumps that you have to do. You could easily break something on this piece.

[Rasterius]

@Sword1479 Not ahead, just with his time. Schoenberg and Stravinsky were also exploring this new music. Berlioz, now that man was certainly ahead of his time!

[alcoholya]

@purplekitteh no means yes in this case.

[Sword1479]

@Rasterius Eh, that's your opinion, I guess, but Scriabin was ahead of his time

[Rasterius]

mmmm prefer Rachmaninoff

[annefrankisaho]

@briawnaanderson

What do you feel is more difficult? Not arguing, just curious.

[briawnaanderson]

Yes. Richter himself considered this the hardest piece ever written for piano. Although many would contest that designation (myself included) it is definitely "up there." Also, it is harder to interpret effectively than Rach 2, in my opinion.

[34f2u1to]

Amazing performance. Even now, after I have studied and played the sonata and I can hear all the wrong notes, Richter's energy, sense of musical structure, and dramatic awareness are superb.

[elicandondo]

BEST SCRIABIN SONATAS ARE 5TH, 7TH, AND 10 (SCRIABIN PERSONAL FAUVORITE WAS THE 7TH)

[xodn3300]

@Rachmanomaniac he wasn't even alive in 21st century...