Lugansky - Scriabin Étude Op. 8, No. 12. Patetico

Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)
Études, Op. 8, No. 12 in D-sharp minor. Patetico (1894)
Nikolai Lugansky, 2019
From Zaryadye Hall
“... Technically this is another octave study; emotionally it marks the final peak of the cycle. The defiant gestures of the right hand (not dissimilar to Chopin’s in his Op 10 No 12) are propelled by wide-ranging left-hand figurations which give way to irresistibly onward-pressing repeated chords in both hands-a device used later at the climaxes of the fourth and fifth Sonatas.”
Simon Nicholls

[@micheleangelo_pinto_piano]

Don't care about a few fausse notes: NL gets closest to the essence of this piece, a swear and a prayer, at the same time. Great.

[@gdkabsbdkwkwm4187]

It is so stupid to talk about a few fausse notes.... He is super genius, probabpy the best pianist in history

[@elegachi]

The fact that even Lugansky misses a couple of notes makes me feel a bit better of myself 😂 Btw if you like this piece listen to Sultanov's version it's something special

[@c.s.christopher5801]

Kissin better IMO

[@Chefpavel]

"Playing a wrong note is an inconvenience. Playing without emotion is inexcusable." - Ludwig van Beethoven

[@imauz1127]

it’s a bit rushed for my liking, i like lang lang or horowitz more

[@classical.pianist]

Magnificent. Passion. Power. Strength. Fortitude. Amongst the greatest living pianists!

[@etruscie]

May I add…. electricity and frisson!

[@z.d.davidson]

Besides Horowitz's powerhouse version at Carnegie all those decades ago, Lugansky is the best living performer of this piece.

[@emilianocastrocruz7948]

completely agreed

[@Chefpavel]

@@emilianocastrocruz7948 I watched the "Horowitz at Carnegie Hall" concert of 1968 on my black-and-white Zenith TV. I held that rendition in memory as the benchmark until Lugansky.

[@andreasbeschorner1215]

Not in my opinion. Yvgeni Kessin plays far clearer, far less pedal, far nicer interpretation.

[@nezkeys79]

What always amazes me more than the performances of classical music is that a human being created it centuries before

[@ahmetbaturalpmirzabey5141]

Yeah bc you can learn how to play it through years of dedication but if you are not creative than there is no way you can write something like this

[@user-mi2nn1mk3q]

Лучший, все трогает, захватывает- чувства, интеллект, сила Духа - пронзительны как ни у кого. Великий музыкант.

[@probiogr3863]

one of the most emotional pieces ever a human being made !

[@Granolax_]

and with the luganshy's interpretation is already beautifull

[@SeigneurReefShark]

@DimYan he was a god

[@SeigneurReefShark]

@DimYan I know what you said already

[@rosemarysearle7093]

Wonderful interpretation. Beautifully executed 'pull back' at 41 seconds in. Best short piano piece ever written, in my opinion. Such romance and passion. Thank you to Scriabin for your composition ... but also to Lugansky for playing it so meaningfully for us all to enjoy today. Wish I was a good enough pianist to play it too.

[@MuhammadKhan-vm5ow]

I noticed something was unusual at around 41 seconds haha, was wondering what he did and then found your comment!

[@arpeggiomikey]

When I've played this magnificent work, I've always felt a dynamic "pull-back" to also be present at the 1:14-1:15 mark, and a pivotal moment in the piece! I'm convinced others must feel similarly, and I'd love to know which points in this 2-minute masterwork "speak" with particular urgency to others....

[@KeithWhalen11]

1:03 - 1:12 the delayed and punctuated bass in the section is too good.

[@ReadeSnair]

I’d recommend listening to this exact section in Sultanov’s recording on KZbin. Very unique

[@KeithWhalen11]

@@ReadeSnair I've listened to that Sultanov recording for years. One of the most intuitive, passionate, and proficient pianists I've ever witnessed. He reminds me of Shawn Lane, another outlier from the guitar world who left us far too soon. It gives their legendary recordings a haunting, perplexing quality.

[@fslubin]

@@ReadeSnair True. Those accented base notes are startling.

[@venzocaina]

Una de mis performances favoritas. La gran mayoría quiere conservar la perfección en tanto a lo que a la ejecución y tempo corresponde, pero olvidan el patetismo de la obra. En esta performance se siente el dolor. Me encanta.

[@user-tg7ii4ft4f]

Breath taking! Lugansky is amazing!!!!

[@ukdavepianoman]

This piece has to be played slightly unhinged. Occasionally the odd wrong note will appear - doesn't matter in this piece. The passion and almost a manic sense is what matters. It's an extraordinary etude and the LH has to jump all over the place. Magnificent performance by NL.

[@olgal.9011]

Лучшее исполнение, на мой взгляд! Браво!!! 💐👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@iamwhatiam6281]

lugansky with his superfast superhigh jumps with the forearms, could play the chords hitting heavly the keys so his sound is full and powerfull and ffff. he is simply unbelievable.

[@user-cg1ih5ys6r]

Мощно! По - русски! Чувства бушующего Океана! Браво!

[@user-dc1oq6hz8u]

The best performance of this piece from my view

[@SchubertDipDab]

That would be Dinorah Varsi in my humble opinion. :)

[@moldybubbles6543]

have you heard Sultanov's?

[@immortily1673]

@@SchubertDipDab Sultanov's

[@SchubertDipDab]

@@immortily1673 Thanks I'll check it out. :)

[@natelasharashidze8684]

Браво！Как всегда-блестяще.

[@MrBathelemont]

he is the best in these days

[@NS1.]

That is the coolest thing I have ever seen in my life.

[@concettacapuozzo598]

sempre il top !

[@Gildarts69]

He captures the essence great!! One of the most emotional performances of this piece!

[@claudioparrella183]

mismy

[@JoelJuanQuiPiano]

The best version ever...❤

[@giuliobaldi9613]

Amazing quality of sound

[@thomassnider6691]

One of the best 2 minutes of music.

[@mario99ize]

Bravo !!!!!

[@suonaresuonaresuonare2760]

As great as always!!!!

[@islaadele1212]

The only pianist alive who can make me voluntarily listen to Scriabin.

[@christiantino2973]

Amazing.

[@genesis4200]

with lugansky i feel like one of the great old masters of the past days is still with us, reincarnated

[@restonnova6745]

Without doubt the best.

[@olakolade6656]

amazing!

[@vivianasavova_uwu]

BRAVO 💕

[@johnhuffman5608]

So much light -- so much darkness

[@JohnSmith-oe5kx]

Very good! But I prefer Horowitz's thunderous bass line. Also, while Horowitz muffs notes, he generally takes care to do so in the middle bass where it is less evident.

[@robert.m6755]

The bass is very strong. I think that because of the fact that the notes are less muffled, we hear it less since the entire piece is played with strength

[@antoninavirduzzo5492]

Beautiful♥️

[@aalb1970]

Bravo!

[@Troybeallad]

That is fantastic.

[@getfucked-x6z]

omg this is perfect

[@tanyaleef5138]

Outstanding

[@massspec8718]

what a huge hand

[@MarcAmengual]

Great pianist

[@dale731]

Beethoven said to make an error is insignificant. To play without passion is unforgivable.

[@TheZ3R]

Significant if the performer did so well that the audiences start to dream

[@lauraconejeros9720]

beautiful Bbavo

[@nezkeys79]

He plays that one piece in Em the best too I forgot the name lol

[@chrisy367]

Moment musicaux no.4?

[@nezkeys79]

@@chrisy367 yes

[@user-vd9vv1oc4y]

БравОООООО

[@Chima4289]

Eric Lu plays this piece beautifully…

[@Tonysmithmusic]

scriabin was such a genius.

[@purpleblue946]

Great! Also check out Ingolf Wunder. My favorites for this piece are Horowitz, Kissin, Lugansky, Wunder. Too bad Richter never played it (he does a marvelous job with Op. 8 No. 5).

[@bigpancake420]

Check Out sultanov

[@Tis_Not_Ivo]

Sultanov is by far my favourite for this piece!

[@nezkeys79]

I prefer this to horowitz I'm a bad man yes XD

[@getfucked-x6z]

Evgeny kissin and Lugansky are the only two ones I’ll listen to

[@Dylonely42]

Why ?

[@user-fr4fp2rj3u]

손크기...🎉

[@salisuladze5995]

Omg

[@solti1414]

1:19 wrong notes

[@mxrtinfy2248]

What a miserable comment

[@hubschenk1652]

I also have Evgeny Kissin's version. But I think Lugansky's is even better. Why does a country that produces such great pianists wage war against its neighbor!

[@grzegorzkoslacz3859]

Played just like etude.

[@player308]

Didn't know Gretzky took up piano

[@user-np6vs2oz2u]

0:02

[@johnbartlett9568]

It needs more cowbell

[@arpeggiomikey]

Funny thing -- I understand that Scriabin originally scored the piece for piano & cowbell. Huh!... 🤔🧐🙏

[@khn2476]

Great interpretation with much power, though I would prefer a cleaner play with less mistakes, they interfere a bit with the overall impression.

[@marvintorrejas767]

Nikolai Lugansky Is the Reincarnation of Maestro Vladimir Horowitz.

[@rummi72]

Thanks a lot. I really like Nikolai's interpretations. He is indeed a worthy successor to the traditions of Tatyana Nikolaeva school. His performance is filled with dignity and intelligence, but not to the detriment of emotional manifestations. Although my favorite interpretation still remains the interpretation of Sofronitsky: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4PalXupbJppopY I do not want to say that the interpretation of Lugansky is worse, just Sofronitsky is closer to understanding the time in which Scriabin worked. Therefore, the interpretation of Sofronitsky, in my opinion, is more closer to the original source.

[@Reboost269]

Great comment. Although I am a huge Lugansky fan I prefer Sofronitsky's performance. However, this performance is also breathtaking. I watched this 100s of time maybe.

[@rummi72]

​@@Reboost269 Hello. Thanks for your kind words. I'm very glad that you liked Sofronitsky's performance. Except Richter, Gilels, Sofronitsky there are many outstanding and little-known outside of Russia pianists of the past and their teachers: Alexander Goldenweiser, Heinrich Neuhaus, Yakov Flier, Yakov Zak, Rosa Tamarkina, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg and many other names, among them is Tatyana Nikolaeva -- Lugansky's mentor -- whose interpretations of Bach are the most beloved for me, as well as Richter's. I hope their performances will seem no less interesting to you. All the best to you. P.S. By the way, Rosina Lhevinne (which was Van Cliburn's and John Williams' mentor) is also originally from Russian empire and a graduate of the Moscow Conservatory. I really like her Chopin.

[@user-fu4zz5lq7q]

レイズ　クアトロ

[@ilikebroccoliandmorebrocco1481]

Lugansky or Horowitz?

[@jancarlossantiagorojas4688]

Horowitz

[@SeigneurReefShark]

Sultanov

[@jungwirthmartin]

Lugansky

[@jungwirthmartin]

@Shostacovid-19 Sultanov is good, but he misses the poetry and soft touch of Horowitz as well as Lugansky, of course, his voicing in the middle part is quite remarkable, on the other hand, he is just banging and playing strong many places of this great etude, unlike from Horowitz and his singing tone, just my opinion

[@user-zf2cn8vd2k]

Sultanov, but Lugansky is playing like Skriabin!

[@MattLap21]

Such a noisy audience

[@user-rv5gi7hv6c]

Трудный технически этюд .

[@maxc3239]

Im a fan .. but he miss so Many Times ...

[@derwanderer4769]

What do you mean?

[@pqiojsqdklnads3861]

@@derwanderer4769 he is saying that lugansky missed a lot of notes in this performance, which is true. I really wish he didn't because i oftentimes love lugansky and the musicality he presents here is great still, but he missed a lot of notes unfortunately.

[@jungwirthmartin]

And what about Horowitz? He just plays buch of mistakes all the time, but he knows how to cover them

[@brunoantony9257]

good but can't quite match the nuance of Horowitz

[@mooneulogy8717]

1:18 ouch. never seen lugansky that obviously mess up. and 1:29

[@raulq.o.4121]

So? I suppose that you can play it without mistakes, right?

[@nicholasoblonsky5166]

Happens to the best of us

[@jadfaddil7645]

Well he has done some more, but messing up happens to all of us ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@restonnova6745]

@None None mistakes? SO WHAT? To play wrong note is insignificant, to play without passion is inexcusable

[@artemtsarevskiy2785]

We don’t care. I barely noticed

[@jeanlucchapelon]

Bizarre mais je ne ressens pas grand chose en l’écoutant alors que Horowitz !!!

[@augustinmaggetto4813]

Je trouve qu'il y va trop fort dès le début et qu'il n'y aucun cheminement. J'ai l'impression qu'il y a de la précipitation dans ce qu'il fait et que c'est juste pour jouer vite et fort.