Bortkiewicz - 3 Morceaux, Op. 6 (Trapman)

Piano: Klaas Trapman
Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz
I. Prélude - 00:00
II. Valse triste - 03:04
III. Etude - 05:55
Bortkiewicz's piano style was very much based on Liszt and Chopin, nurtured by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, early Scriabin, Wagner and Russian folklore. He was unaffected by the music trends of the 20th century - the composer never saw himself as a "modernist" as can be seen from his Künstlerisches Glaubensbekenntnis, written in 1923. His workmanship is meticulous, his imagination colourful and sensitive, his piano writing idiomatic; a lush instrumentation underlines the essential sentimentality of the melodic invention. But Bortkiewicz was not merely an imitator - he very much had his own style that drew upon all the influences of his life and that can be immediately recognised as a typically Bortkiewicz tone: lyrical and nostalgic.
(Wikipedia)

[@kyokusei]

bortkiewicz never misses 😳

[@freddiehoogewerf3328]

Truly 😳

[@freddiehoogewerf3328]

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[@smb123211]

I play this also but at a slower tempo. Great flow and touch.

[@kaleidoscopio5]

Just what I was looking for. Thanks 😁

[@alcyonecrucis]

I dig it !

[@SCRIABINIST]

Prelude is Chopin Op.72 No.1?????????? Jk but Bortkiewicz has really nice pieces

[@maxwoefull3460]

Its like Chopin wrote another nocturne

[@phillaysheo8]

That is not Andante. That is jogging pace..

[@jacobleis5673]

I think every (late) romantic composer (accept for maybe Prokofiev) goes through their "Chopin" phase before developing their own voice (e.g. Scriabin, Godowsky, Rachmaninoff, Bortkiewicz, Blumenfeld, etc,...)

[@robertwalker2052]

Prokofiev had his Classical Symphony, remember. I also think Chopin himself went through his Chopin phase. . .

[@hadinossanosam4459]

*Russian romantic composer. Also, Medtner is another exception (he had an impressionist phase?!), and I would argue early Rachmaninoff is much closer to Tchaikovsky than to Chopin, while Chopin's influence can be found more strongly later in e.g. the second sonata. But still, Chopin's influence is certainly impressively sweeping (and well-deserved it is, too)!

[@_iakvb771]

She Bort my kiewicz till I Morceaux op 6