Julia Azevedo - Concours Scriabin - Paris 2009

Júlia Azevedo, 2º prémio no Concours International Scriabin, Paris, 18 de Fevereiro de 2009



Hailed as a genius by Alexandrov, Medtner, Prokofiev, and Lourié, Alexei Stanchinsky (1888-1914) was once a household name to Russian composers in the early 20th-century only to be forgotten after the 1917 revolution. Today he is usually regarded as an eccentric composer whose premature death is shrouded in mystery. Throughout his youth, Stanchinsky was prone to mental illness, spent a year (1908-09) in an institution, and was pronounced "incurably insane." He often destroyed his own compositions in fits of hallucination and rage; thankfully, friends and colleagues did much to reconstruct many of his manuscripts. Despite his degrading mental health, Stanchinsky had ambitions in music and concertized widely. Yet in 1914 Stanchinsky's body was discovered near a creek and although the cause of death was unknown, rumors spread that it was suicide. During his studies at the Moscow Conservatory around 1909, Stanchinsky wrote experimental piano pieces that were considered avant-garde for the day. He assimilated elements of Scriabin, Medtner, Mussorgsky, and folk music in the creation of his own style, one that cradles the harmonic language of high Romanticism, especially Scriabin, and his own fascination with polyphonic textures. Interestingly, scholar Larry Sitsky calls Stanchinsky the "Diatonic Webern" for his propensity for diatonic saturation and employment of "polyphony not as a contrasting episode but rather as the essential and organic tool of his music."

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[auboulot]

Olá!

A tua mana cada vez está melhor!!! Dou-lhe 5 ***** porque não há mais... senão dava-lhe as 20... pois sou uma "reles" apenas apaixonada por música.

Sucesso é a Júlia. Ela sim... é nova, deve seguir, tem talento,sente e gosta daquilo que faz.

Tudo do melhor para vocês!

Bons estudos,

Andreia

[netportus]

! ! Muitos parabéns ! !

Excelente.

TALENTO & muuuuuiiiiiito TRABALHO e pricipalmente gosto pela música para juntar o ambos!

[auboulot]

Muito obrigada!

De facto foi muuuuuuiiiiiiito trabalho. Ms a paixão supera!

[MusicDoLove]

Hi Julia!  That's really beautiful and powerful playing. Fantastic work! *****

[auboulot]

Thanks!!!

I Love Stanchinsky,

[MezzoMasha]

Brava

[DxAxone]

wow greart playing, can you play the Canon prelude in E mixolydian, it is so beautiful, ive just started on it. Would love to hear you playing it. Do you play any Scriabin?

[PSearPianist]

Thank you very much for uploading. I have heard a lot about Stanchinsky on piano forums, but this is the first performance of anything by him that i have seen. I shall look out some of his music to play myself - meanwhile 5* for you!

[2007flutestar]

Talento... Muito trabalho... muitos sacrifícios... ainda a acrescentar a sorte que ela tem de estar a estudar nas mãos de uma Sr.ª do piano: Oxana Anikeeva. "Atrás de um bom aluno, está sempre um grande mestre". Adoro, adoro...!!!!!

[koubache]

wow ! Vraiment superbe, je t'en félicite !