Alexander Scriabin plays Scriabin Prelude op 11 no 14

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) plays Scriabin Prelude op 11 no 14
enr. 1910

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[ibclappin]

this is only possible with piano roll

[Starwalker6978]

@ibclappin Do you mean the tempo? The tempo is not so difficult, but it sounds a bit mechanical which suggests a piano roll. These piano rolls are not an example of how Scriabin (a.o) must have sounded. They're unreliable and therefore mere curiosities rather than renderings. What is interesting are the accounts by critics and colleagues who heard Scriabin play. Scriabin's playing seemed to have been very whimsical; rhythmically unstable, but very poetic with a most beautiful tone!

[ibclappin]

@Starwalker6978 yeah i've heard he would play a certain piece one day, and the next day he would play the same piece very differently. scriabin wasn't completely normal up top; i mean he was a good person and if you were to meet him you wouldn't think anything was wrong but deep down he had psychological issues is what i've heard. of course all the things that went wrong in his life probably played their parts too

[Starwalker6978]

@ibclappin I think he was too well up top! He was a great genius, with a huge imagination. But as happens often with geniuses, they often get mad because their genius creates a certain dissipation from the rest of the world. See the cases of Schumann and Nietzsche for example.

[ibclappin]

@Starwalker6978 what i wrote there was not in any way undermining scriabin

[Starwalker6978]

@ibclappin In what I wrote there was no accusation whatsoever that you did.

[FlorianSchirmacher]

@ibclappin yes the tempo seems unplayable. The jumps are too smooth on the record.

[barendschipper]

We have a fine rendering of Scriabin's interpretation of his own work thanks to these scrolls.

And then another thing. When I hear people talk about Scriabin's personality:

it is always interesting to hear what description comes out when a mere mediocre pianist hears an original perform: to these master composer pianists as Scriabin, who could improvise as well as they composed and performed, a copy of a performance was the pinnacle of boredom and stupidity. To PLAY music had meaning to them.

[barendschipper]

@Starwalker6978

Did you hear the 'breath' ending of a phrase at 0.14 This means that you're really dead wrong. Of course these rolls give a fine example of Scriabin as he played his own works.

What do you think, that he would have cared to play his work on them it came out wrongly with these rolls?

The man was a genius, a meticulous pianist - composer.

Also composer-pianist Rachmaninov also played his music rhythmically very precise. They did not care about rubato, as Chopin did not either.

[TheRedArmy10]

@Starwalker6978 I don't think this refers to Scriabin.

[RollaArtis]

@HOCOB Let's face it, this piano roll is obviously running too fast.

[HOCOB]

I wonder why Scriabin puts the metronome markings in the music on 69-72 (for 5 eights) but plays close to 104-108...?