Scriabin plays Scriabin Poem Op. 32 No. 1, Fis-dur

This is a piano-roll recording made around 1900s.

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Music

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• scriabin
• poem
• piano
• roll

[RollaArtis]

Hello truecrypt - You might be interested to know that I put this recording on the media player and moved the speed setting around - and found that this performance comes alive at a slightly faster speed. Getting the correct tempo is often a problem with roll recordings.

[truecrypt]

@RollaArtis

I think you're absolutely correct!

[gtimny]

truecrypt, can you tell me anything about how this piano roll was realized? From the clicks and pops and relatively poor piano tone this sounds very old. As you know, piano rolls are dependent on the operator for speed and to some degree dynamics. The reason I ask is that this comes across - to me, anyway - without much dynamic contrast and at a tempo slow enough that the melodic lines break. So I wonder if it's really what Scriabin had in mind. Thanks for posting all this fabulous stuff.

[truecrypt]

You will probably get better info by checking out Wiki for "piano roll" - they have pretty clear description how it all works.

From purely musical point of view, these recordings are "pale shadows" of real playing. It's better than nothing (much better!), but many essential qualities are missed or greatly distorted. So... it is close to what Scriabin had in mind, but one has to turn on "internal filter" to imagine a real thing.

[Neongrapes]

I love Scriabin to death. I only wish that his incredible genius

was given its proper due, instead of being overshadowed

by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok, Shostakovich, Messiaen,

Mahler, Rachmaninov, you name it. Also, he's overshadowed

by the impressionists. But, I can't complain about that because I love Debussy, Ravel, Satie. If only Scriabin

could have lived 10 or 20 more years. The sublimity

of his music would be unparalleled.

[ragtimemarkbirnbaum]

HYPNOTIC AND BEAUTIFUL -

THX

[XenoType008]

@Neongrapes I'd say between Chopin and Liszt... they both lead to Scriabin, Debussy and Ravel etc... then the rest came after. Plus i don't think it's overshadowed, there must be shadows only delusional people only think those in the light matter.

[computerdborbo]

@Neongrapes

hi, i answer you after two years...

im italian and the correct word is inafferrando... which i suppose means not caught..

[webbergraham]

So remarkable. Thank you. I'm just 'discovering' Scriabin now, and actually loving the speed of this. I love that those beautiful, poetic lines, are lingered on.....

[Bstniea]

@truecrypt on the sheets, It's noticed 50bpm (dotted eighth note)...

[lovesGenet]

Scriabin is on more piano programmes than Schoenberg ,Messiaenor Bartok.I go to competitions and many recitals he is not overlooked at all.I wish thee was more Bartokand Messiaen ,they are more respected but they are not in every high schoolers head .I've met pianists who play shostakovich's piano sonata and preludes and yet have never programmed them. The shame is totally on the side of the un-romantics! Berg is certainly finer stuff as is Messiaen and Bartok.I adore him but he aint ignored.

[Chopinco]

@RollaArtis Im just analysing this poem and when i heard this recording i thoug just on that =D and this is the first comment i see :D

[tonecrafter55]

After Scriabin died, Rachmanninoff paid him homage by touring Russia by train while performing all-Scriabin concerts. His admirers clamoured for some of his own pieces but Rachmanninoff doggedly declared, "Scriabin, only Scriabin".

[RollaArtis]

@thelestuss Yes, exactly.

[thelestuss]

re: RollaAartis

You're right about rolls... they make problematic recordings, but that's not the point. such a precious recording from a precious composer is all about getting the chance to hear his touch... his conceptualization of breath and phrasing, and where he sees the foreground, the melody in each hand, coming through and how the hands play together.

[edoeli]

Scriabin is jazz man !! fantastic !