Feinberg - Piano Sonata No. 3; III "Sonata" (Part 1/2)

Part one of the third "Sonata" movement from Feinberg's Piano Sonata No. 3 Op. 3 (1916). This part contains the exposition and its repeat. Part two begins with the development section.

Samuil Feinberg (1890-1962) was a major Russian pianist-composer in the early 20th-century. He was an acclaimed virtuoso with an eclectic repertoire and an esteemed teacher at the Moscow Conservatory. Today, he is mostly remembered for his Bach transcriptions and various recordings. However, his compositional output is substantial and his piano works, despite influences from Scriabin, are original, intense, and extremely virtuosic. Unlike Scriabin, he preferred a sound world of angst and pessimism. By 1934, Feinberg ceased playing his darker works in public. He also stopped composing in his early style and instead created simpler pieces according to Socialist Realism.

Note: I realize the timing of this scrolling score is off in some areas. Indeed, the transitions are hardly precise, but I can only do so much with Feinberg's "dense, almost impenetrable jungle of notes" as Larry Sitsky says.

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[KeithWhalen11]

Feinberg is one of my favorite composers now. I looked for this CD at the HMV music store in downtown Montreal and no luck. They have a huge section dedicated to 20th century composers but no fricken Feinberg, I was incensed.

[Hexameron]

Amazon has both volumes from the BIS label

[KeithWhalen11]

Of course, and I will certainly pick them up now. I'm just so angry about having this huge classical music store that doesn't carry anything slightly different. I can get thirteen copies of the Tchaikovsky concerto but nothing even remotely close to this style.

[Hexameron]

Yes; that does reflect a sad side of the classical music industry. For some reason, many classical listeners are content to purchase twenty recordings of Grieg's piano concerto or Chopin's nocturnes, so online stores won't risk having a solo piano disc of Alkan's etudes.

[Mantis06]

This is the first time I've heard this composer and I'm blown away. He sounds like a picked up where Scriabin left off.

[JCHBONNET]

Same for me. I discussed this with Hexameron a few days ago. Frankly, it is beyond me that some people could be interested in hearing the thirteen available versions of Tchaikovsky's concerto !

[Lesiga1]

Your profile is a Treasure Sir, I was looking for my hero Silvestrov but you have given so much more, thank you!!!!

[lsbrother]

pianist?

[2011persol]

let the fools (people) just buy the commercial shit, so they can tell their fellow-minded ,that hey im really into classical music ya know, look here tchaikovsky's 1 piano concerto (it's in my mind monumental like rach's 3) and i own it....

still it's boring, people like wht they're getting, their just content wth superficial products showoff to prove their socalled cultural capital, and stray away from searching deeper into the fantastique world of underground/neglected music like this.

[Lukecash12]

Fantastic interpretation, aside from the fact that his F isn't very different (and is often exactly the same) from his FF.

[Aul1kki]

This looks so awkward to play, but it sounds nice. I guess I'll try some feinberg in future.

[Lukecash12]

The lyricism in this piece is just heavenly. This is some of Feinberg's finest work.

[Kalen1457]

This music puts me into an entirely different world...