Yevgeny Sudbin, Scriabin Valse Op. 38

Recorded live from Orpheus & Bacchus Festival http://www.orpheusandbacchus.com
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[stilldreaming70]

It's now possible to order (autographed) CDs directly from his website, including the latest recording, just released.

[guirlandes3]

@jimicheesecake [this citation from my forthcoming book on Scriabin, con't] "Sequential streams of dominant quality harmonies, transpositionally invariant and enharmonically juxtaposed, express ambiguity and destabilize his music. In this sense Scriabin had more in common with the Russian Imagists and their doctrine of variable meaning than he did with the theurgic symbolists who shaped the arts and philosophy in Nicholavean-Russia."

[guirlandes3]

@jimicheesecake Here is a citation from my forthcoming book''Scriabin Defended Against His Devotees: A Critical Evaluation of the Composer in the Context of Russian History, Religion and Culture'" "In his cosmos of harmonic paradox, Scriabin's symbolism is ambiguous and does not aspire to fixed, immovable values. Thus it is the phenomenal world that becomes a metaphor for his music, and not the reverse. [con't..]

[guirlandes3]

@jimicheesecake . Scriabin's moved away from conventional tertiary harmony, without abandoning it altogether. Though he rejected the idea of key centers he exploited an vocabulary informed by a rich soup of octatonic scales, duplex modes (Dyernova's term), and tritones. The highly symmetrical character by means of which he organizes all that lends the music its idiosyncratic complexity, but for all that, it has nothing whatsoever to do with serialism.

[guirlandes3]

@jimicheesecake Sliv3r is essentially correct here. Wikipedia's , which is hardly a reliable source for Scriabin scholarship, is essentially misinformed. Though Scriabin certainly inspired a generation of composers to re-evaluate, in their own individual ways, the expressive potential of music and the technical means for achieving as much,  his own music is by no means twelve-tone.

[marginallymental]

Totally aside from the music, I love Yvgeny's unprecious and unfussy performance. He's definitely less about flopping around and more about the music.

[SIiv3r]

@jimicheesecake He didn't presaged twelve-tone composition, there is no strong connection between Schoenberg and Scriabin. Scriabin's harmonic bases around his Prometheus Chord, which served him as a scale, whereof he derived much of his musical material and one can say that, like Stravinsky and Bartok, the manner he used it is loosely serial. But twelve-tone composition is quite another thing, the biggest difference being the non-repeating order. It sounds completely different.

[jimicheesecake]

@mdboop ok, wikipedia says that "Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system, accorded to mysticism, that presaged twelve-tone composition and other serial music."

[mdboop]

@jimicheesecake This isn't 12-tone music, not even close.

[jimicheesecake]

12 tone music just doesnt sit well with me. Leaves me too edgy or something idk but i cant stand it.

[2011persol]

@chad410 your just jealous hehe