A Fantasy Indeed - Scriabin - Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28 | Classical Music Reaction

[@usernameatusernameperiodsh2168]

He forget about this piece and only remembered it when his colleague played it

[@sfilkins2009]

I am a pianist. This is my favorite piece in the world to listen to. It just sends chills through me. It is a fantasy. I have learned to play the 4th Sonata and played it in my senior recital at college. It can be heard on my own KZbin channel. It is in F# major…which is a rather difficult key to play in. It is another piece that excites me to both play and listen to. I feel like an anomaly in the world today because I love this kind of music and especially this, my favorite composer. This fantasy is a goal of mine to learn. It is the epitome of a concert piece to show great acclaim for the pianist. The melody is just beautiful! Thank you for paying attention to it and having it played here. Many pianists play it and do it justice. No critique there. Just a fantastic piece!

[@reubenmoisey897]

what's your favourite recording of this piece?

[@sfilkins2009]

@@reubenmoisey897 I don't think I have chosen a favorite artist that plays this. It is just that the piece itself is fantastic and I'll listen to anyone who plays it.

[@nadeemlo]

​@reubenmoisey897 mine is Aumiller's recording!

[@reubenmoisey897]

@@nadeemlo thank you so much!

[@chrissereque8716]

As a non-pianist musician, one thing has always mystified me: how does a pianist play a triplet accompaniment in the right hand, and also a duple melody in the right hand, at the same time (6’10”)?

[@jose2498]

you often see that left hand in scriabin pieces is way more difficult than right hand, because he suffered from pain in the right arm

[@Draspber]

I’ve heard somewhere in the internet someone called this piece “exhaustingly beautiful”. And it is so true for me. It is so beautiful and so passionate and dynamic, that you just don’t have enough time to “calm down”. Especially beautiful is this theme 2:47 - 3:51 and culmination of it which almost made me cry 🥹 6:00 - (6:24) - 7:20

[@ruhtrayen]

absolutely, overwhelming beauty. But I've to say that the interpretation could have been better, Richter gives more nuances to the pieces.

[@nandovancreij]

​@@ruhtrayenagreed, i find this interpretation to be too bangy in the first theme

[@kaysonpiano]

Maria Lettberg is easily one of the best interpretations of this piece hands down but unfortunately not so popular and mainstream like a lot of other Scriabinist so she goes unnoticed. Her and Ruth Laredo don't get enough recognition they deserve for Scriabin.

[@ruhtrayen]

@@kaysonpiano I didn't know her, thanks for the recommandation

[@mangogyfufi6453]

Zhukov performance of this piece is much underrated

[@Viktor-lp4cn]

Massive-massive thanks to GIDI for popularizing the classics!

[@pianoman1857]

One of my favorite piece for piano, it’s so epic and passionate, and yet also intimate

[@n8sterling727]

Another one or my absolute favorites by Scriabin. You gotta hear his Tragique Poeme. You won't be disappointed!

[@FirstGentleman1]

So much Scriabin. You seem to care for the master, GIDI. I have a suggestion for the first time piano left hand only music, if it is not Ravels left Hand Piano concerto. Scriabins Prelude and Nocturne op 9 nos 1 & 2 for the left hand only. Nice.

[@kaysonpiano]

Currently still practicing the left hand nocturne and it is honestly fairly difficult to get the melody to shine while not letting the accompanying notes overpower since its all one hand lol Scriabin was such a goat

[@FirstGentleman1]

@@kaysonpiano The second video on my channel is me playing that piece, but I think I failed. Good luck to you, sir.

[@derekd.4156]

Well I guess I’ll have to listen to Scriabin now….

[@abbeyekrut9528]

I want to learn this piece eventually❤❤❤

[@philipadams5386]

Happy to explain something for you, Gidi. Scriabin wrote several piano sonatas. Sonatas are multi-movement pieces for (usually) a solo instrument. If the solo instrument is NOT a piano, then a piano usually accompanies the soloist. So a piano sonata is a multi-movement piece for solo piano; a flute sonata is a multi-movement piece for solo flute with piano accompaniment. Sonatas normally have three or four movements. We also have sonata form. Sonata form follows a certain procedure, so to speak. Essentially, this procedure has three parts: (i) exposition, (ii) development, and (iii) recapitulation. Usually, the first movement of a sonata (and a symphony, for that matter) follows the sonata form procedure. You ask for help in interpreting this: 'This is a single sonata-form movement for piano, which bridges the gap between the Third Sonata and the Fourth Sonata.' What it means is that this piece, Scriabin's Fantasy in B minor, Op. 28, was written sometime between the publication of his third and fourth piano sonatas. In addition, it tells you that the Fantasy is written in sonata form, meaning that its title 'Fantasy' is something of a misnomer.

[@Ziad3195]

fantasy means has a flowing improvised quality. this definitely has that quality cuz to me, it's a mess. i don't like it. that doesn't mean there are no good fantasies out there. th

[@emilyhutjes]

YESSSYESSYESYESS (Holland-eu) 🌷🌷🌷

[@BadPerson789]

Will you listen to medtner night wind it is something else. Make sure its Andrey Ponochevny playing it

[@DynastieArtistique]

Nahhhh, Eckardstein >>

[@kimwilson3863]

Greetings, I don't know if you are familiar with a wonderful piece of music accompanied by a moralistic story that is Peter and The Wolf, by Sergei Prokofiev, narrated by Sir John Gielgud. My Mother played this to me when I was a little girl and it has stayed with me in my musical memory for 70yrs always transporting me back to a time when music was art. If you have never heard it do take time to listen whether on KZbin or in private, it will delight you too I think. 🎶🇬🇧

[@Swybryd-Nation]

Great piece. So so interpretation. Go with MaH. Marc-Andre Hamelin!!

[@andreacassano3991]

Lazar Berman is so good too here

[@MrInterestingthings]

Scriabin is about deeper worlds. Over time their acerbic ,biting , far-reaching qualities will grab you! The 2nd Sonata in g#minor told all who were paying attention that this one Russian was going further ahead than Tchaikovsky or Musorgsky or any of the Russian Five. Scriabin's experiments in soundworlds, idea and atmosphere,histrionics were in alignment with Mahler and much that we find in late Romantic era literature and symphonic composition-but not in piano writing.Far ahead in metaphysics andThis lone single bminormovement along with the divine 3rd Sonata are really where Scriabin first begins his masculine divination into the dark eternalities . The energies released , revealed ,exposed here are the last time Triumph would sound this bold and undiluted by the techniques of unstable progressions and barely hinted at tonality and key centers . The 4th Sonata gives a poesie and feminine mystique it is utterly unforgettable and then the world of the 19th century is totally blown away by the 5th Sonata and the various smaller works of that period and it only gets more cloudy after that ...There is no other like Scrabin .Roslavetsa bunch of Russians of the early teens strew flowrs in this garden but none took wing nor lasted .Rachmaninoff and Medtner went the other way towards a more romantic positivity equally as boiling,vivid ,sumptuous but less mystic and otherworldly and dozens of othercomposers followed some in Germany even while Ravel brought gentleness back to the fore and Messiaen sought the catholicity of humanity while also going way out into Hindu rhyhms and untried orchestral colors in his piano and orchesral music . Theh 2nd WorldWar helped Messiaen find less destructive goals and joy became the objective and creating an entire chrochromie ,Catalogue d'oiseaux and of course the orchestral piece of all time TURANGALILA . T

[@kaysonpiano]

I think I resonate a lot with Scriabin and love him so much because of everything you described. I am very spiritual and love how much Scriabin reminds me of Nikola Tesla. His Sonatas past 5 definitely start to fade away with romanticism and dive into the mysticism much more. It is funny you mention the 2nd and 4th sonata cause those are easily my fav pieces by him. Ruth Laredo does him justice in interpreting the piece the way I feel it should be played. I would absolutely love to know what Scriabin thought of the afterlife and what happens to our souls and etc but I digress. I can go on and on about those topics so I have to stop myself haha. Cheers and happy practicing to anyone reading, I believe in you. 😊

[@danielcrayne5344]

Hi Gidi, I really enjoy and appreciate your reviews and reactions. May I suggest you check out Hans Rott Symphony #1 in E Major? Rott isn't one of the best known composers, but this piece is a masterpiece.

[@DynastieArtistique]

I’m literally the biggest Rott fan and seeing this made me so happy. Rotts Symphony is beyond sublime and changed my life

[@filipDim]

You should react to Scriabins second sonata, it is very beautiful., nvm you already did.

[@nickarteaga175]

Fun fact: Scriabin died at the age of 43 of an infected pimple. (ok, not so fun) Scriabin's harmonic musical language constantly evolved and this is most evident in the sonatas. If you listen to the first 2 sonatas and the last 2 they sound like a very different composer. His earlier works are directly influenced by Chopin and he started to really develop his own language at the 4th sonata (this work is the very beginning). His later works, such as the last sonatas (9-10) and Vers La Flame (which you have reacted too) is the result of his interest in theosophy and occultism, which led to some very unique music.

[@conannanoc8768]

One of my favorite piano pieces! but i don't like this rendition at all. It gets too loud and shouty. Then some parts that are usually played fast, are painfuly slow and bordering on sloppy. There are so many things going on at once that it's very difficult to produce a clean sound with this fantasie, and I am not sure that it's supposed to be played clean, but i definitely enjoy more those kind of renditions (Bernd Glemser, even though he plays in a much darker piano, comes to mind).

[@usernameatusernameperiodsh2168]

Could you react to lizsts le cloches de Geneve and also his Dante sonata

[@nandovancreij]

he's already reacted to yunchan lim playing the dante sonata

[@usernameatusernameperiodsh2168]

@@nandovancreij that's cool but let cloches de Geneve is still up for a reaction lol

[@nandovancreij]

@@usernameatusernameperiodsh2168 yeah, imo he should react to the whole first year of annees de pelerinage, especially vallee d'obermann

[@usernameatusernameperiodsh2168]

@@nandovancreij YES exactly even better

[@n8sterling727]

Dude this recording is not so good and doesn't do the piece justice, in my opinion. Check out some live renditions. Pascal Amoyal, does this piece a solid. One of my favorites though, along with his Tragique

[@anthropocentrus]

I still think the score is distracting (even if one cant properly read sheet music) because of the constant page skip, makes you want to follow it with your eyes or predict what comes ahead based on how “similar” or “crowded” it looks..etc.. I think it would improve your enjoyment, particularly of these solo piano works, if you would “turn off” your screen/window or put some static image throughout the thing and focus solely on the music without some …schematic 😅

[@ciararespect4296]

But just find it on its own in yt? I wouldn't follow this tiny score

[@Ludwingvanchopin]

I will recommend you to listen to Liszt’s Spanish Fantasy or Alkan Festin d ‘Esope

[@鶴-j5i]

He already did Spanish Fantasy

[@Ludwingvanchopin]

@@鶴-j5i link?

[@DynastieArtistique]

@@鶴-j5iwho’s performance

[@sdsdsdsdsdsd5305]

Love your channel

[@Cherzad-Semoja]

Despite the musical mastery, there's too much "noise" in this piece + it's performed a little too brute, frankly speaking. Therefore not very bearable in this recording.

[@느아아이]

liszt s400 plz