Koji Attwood plays Bortkiewicz Etudes
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This composer Bortkiewicz had a very depressing life. He moved to Germany as WW1 started and got kicked out, went back to Russia as the Russian revolution started, had to run, and got the Germany as the Nazis took power, and had to run again.
Through 20+ years of turmoil he and his wife lived in any safe haven and he kept composing.
Great playing of etudes with technicality and musicality resembling the legendary Chopin and Liszt (Transcendental) opuses.
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sounds like a mixture of chopin, rachmaninoff and scriabin
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That opus 15 number 8 is really fantastic. It has more melodic gift than scriabin...
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1st class playing and choice of music, outstanding, thank you!!!!
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Hi Koji, I'm currently working on Op. 15 No. 8, which you sent me over MySpace as part of a big set of Bortkiewicz's work a few years back. Whenever I have trouble I always go back to this video for help. Thanks for posting!
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this is a wonderful interpertation! bravo!!
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Listening to Koji´s interpretations is always a pleasure :-) Hope to get to listen IRL at least once!
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I love these live performances, you bring a real edge to the music!
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Bortkiewicz was a genius who stands next to Liszt for me (Chopin can't be matched however ; )
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Great !! You are wonderfull!
Listened to these again, and now I want to play them all. And may I say that you made a very fine choice, if I didn't know better I'd say these etudes were written as a set to be performed in this order. Kudos!
eribani 10 months ago
@eribani Thanks! I actually went through quite a bit of effort determining the order, so I appreciate it.
Thracozaag 10 months ago