Mikhail Glinka - Nocturne in F minor "La separation" (audio + sheet music)

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1 June [O.S. 20 May] 1804 - 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1857) was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the fountainhead of Russian classical music. Glinka's compositions were an important influence on future Russian composers, notably the members of The Five, who took Glinka's lead and produced a distinctive Russian style of music.
(Wikipedia)
Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to 480p if the video is blurry.
(original audio: • Alexander Sokolov play... )

[@kathng8354]

Practicing on now , it’s beautiful

[@user-ep2zq3pv6w]

Музыка, проникает во все уголки тела, души и духа!

[@InvestingForTomorrow24]

It' s been 35 years since I heard this lovely piece.

[@mariasoledadbravotrivelli6331]

Cada vez que la escucho me vuelvo a conectar con mis emociones más profundas, es una maravilla sutil y fuerte a la vez.

[@pianoarchive3178]

Very underrated composer. Such a beautiful piece. Glinka deserves more fame.

[@greghufton6561]

Why do I feel as if I've heard this piece many times before? Absolutely wonderful!

[@adelaidefrance9026]

Meme sentiment....

[@hadrieneverard8121]

Probably because the harmonics are quite predictible (not that there's anything wrong with that)

[@santiagologioco7971]

@@hadrieneverard8121 What do you mean with Harmonics?

[@citizent6999]

@@santiagologioco7971 look out for the generally predictable meter, phrasing, progression of predictable points of modulations and the standard chords used to do this. The key of F minor is also predictably used for inducing a passing feeling of melancholy. At 1:49 there is a predictable change to A flat. Moving to D major there instead could've been seen as less predictable?

[@santiagologioco7971]

@@citizent6999 he meant harmony then

[@igormikhailov2255]

Экзаменационное произведение моей супруги.досих пор играет. ..с 1996 года...

[@user-oe4qs7du6m]

Совершенно чарующие звуки! Как будто в другом измерении побывала! Как такое возможно??? Великий ноктюрн!

[@myroslavadanilova771]

Спасибо! Thank you!

[@paulinacortes-delorenzo4490]

A most lovely piece; my first time to hear a nocturne by him. His Trio Pathetique with the clarinet is one of my lifetime favorites. Thank you so much for posting this one.

[@estherandherlittleworld7821]

I just found this one today..and I refuse to stop listening to it 😍

[@xuj62]

Love love love this piece. Been looking for it...

[@foxp3769]

OMG, incredibly beautiful !*Many* Thanks for the uploads.

[@thenameisgsarci]

You're welcome.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Incomparable performance ！ From Tokyo in Japan

[@joshuachilders6558]

Beautiful!

[@ziwenjiao3391]

That’s all?

[@giuseppedimarco8358]

very Beautiful! Unknown piece!

[@tatianashishkanova3219]

Очень понравился формат! Спасибо! 😘

[@MimeBrikk]

До души музыка 🎵 ❤ люблю

[@adanayup9268]

Muy bonita composición... sorprendido...

[@minhnguyet5494]

Very subtle and doleful....bravo👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 1839...wow! 180 years ago

[@robertclark7772]

Beautifully played, you have a real gift, thank you for sharing

[@thenameisgsarci]

Glad to hear that from you. :D

[@aparnamohanogale2124]

Good. Glinka is great.

[@user-ok2rw5vh2k]

Как дивен этот божественный ноктюрн, насколько же он поэтичен!

[@user-nl7ch3hx4e]

Ноктюрн - да. А вот играет он его плохо, к сожалению.

[@user-nl7ch3hx4e]

Ещё и текст не тот - в предпоследнем такте на предпоследней акколаде в среднем голосе си-бемоль играет, в то время, как там бекар поставлен.

[@user-el8pr2jn8h]

@@user-nl7ch3hx4e и это не единственная неточность...

[@rebeccadillingham8868]

Привет я говорю по-русский

[@LamovaElena]

@@user-nl7ch3hx4e ох, согласна, на этой ноте часто фальшивят, играть можно и лучше, левая и арпеджио малость топорно

[@AnnaMaria-wx3xn]

Very beautiful music 🎶🎶🎶

[@boatpeople1233]

Wonderful ❣️

[@reidona]

Wonderful

[@GenevieveNeuvillesMusic]

Une belle découverte !

[@user-ec8rm9hr8q]

Beautiful

[@jianchiwei5379]

Very touching and emotional, absolutely beautiful!

[@ruslitful]

Like all Russian music. Beautiful, sensitive, emotional, crystal clear….

[@user-dq1ho1zw4u]

Fantastic

[@alexpianoplayer15]

That's an amazing nocturne ! So beautiful and heartbreaking. The performance is very expressive though a bit fast at some moments

[@TheKorina15]

no words

[@exawolt]

the pianist really doesn't follow the sheet. Adding features, secondary harmonies, left hand improvisations, and variations of the melody line. Very well played anyway, one of the most loving piece of music I know

[@ivankuligovskii5046]

EXAWOLT no no, he play just another version of this piece. I played the same, with those "variations". maybe Glinka has written earlier and later version

[@exawolt]

Иван Кулиговский Possible. But its not the version showing in the video :) I have an intense need to follow the sheets, that why I felt obligated to put it out

[@adelievilleneuve4340]

EXAWOLT yes, je doesn't follow the sheet

[@yenzytenzy2482]

Seighart, is that you? Or is it Jellal? Seigrain? No Wait! Hi Mystogan!!

[@yenzytenzy2482]

Okay, that was totally irrelevant. But I am playing this piece, and this is really helpful for seeing how the melody switches from soprano to tenor. The opening was beautiful as well.

[@tetyanachorna8139]

Thanks

[@fredericchopin7538]

Delightful!

[@adelievilleneuve4340]

sublime... et moi qui le joue au saxophone... super!

[@francksamba2049]

J’aime bien ce morceau qui est. Jouet au piano. Romantique ❤

[@antoniolucricampagnefilho1753]

lindas musicas

[@ariadnelee]

I feel solitude and satisfaction at the same time through this work. This sorrow is not extreme rather pleasant. May I put my rate to this nocturne through all of his works...

[@lucienfournier5399]

Contrary to you I find this extremely sad its almost unbearreable

[@ariadnelee]

@@lucienfournier5399 hope your soul soothe you in your unity

[@lucienfournier5399]

​@@ariadneleeI dont know what does it mean but thanks u

[@qaza82]

Lovely piece

[@georgegoodman5845]

Very nice music, thank you so much for it. Good

[@thenameisgsarci]

Thanks. :)

[@serges.2567]

Сразу вспоминается фильм Сокурова "Русский ковчег". Там слышно переработанные мотивы из этого ноктюрна.

[@GuzelValeeva-]

Захотелось выучить.

[@janetgu5696]

ahhhh... brings me back to the time when i was a little fifth grader with my new piano teacher.... oh the memoriessssss

[@plantocrate6553]

Bel notturno con intensa e sognante melodia romantica. La scrittura sembra però quella di uno Chopin che scriva in modo piu semplice, con una architettura meno studiata e raffinata.

[@delyabg586]

Ноктюрн прекрасен! Исполнение оставляет желать лучшего...

[@demostenes8771]

Esta música aparece en la película "El arca rusa" del director de cine ruso Alexander Sokurov. De hecho, por esa película estoy escuchando la música de este video.

[@markiepolo4643]

I love Glinka...taste of old Russia and Western Europe...now dying

[@arqmontenegro]

Western ?

[@arqmontenegro]

+Landau I would say Eastern Europe, not Western. And he was born in Europe in a geographical sense, why not??

[@arqmontenegro]

Ну, я бы сказал, из Восточной Европы, а не из Западной. И он родился европейцем. Почему нет?

[@MegaPianogenius]

listen to beautiful melodies by city boys rytmus etc slovakian gypsy rhythms

[@1stEarlOfSurrey]

Markie Polo, your profile picture, I haven’t seen that sculpture since I was a teenager and I thought at the time, ‘my God, how like me it looks’. There’s a hidden ratio...the more technology we have for our convenience, the less magic we have for our souls. In desperation, we sometimes have to grab the hand of our Love, throw away our phones and run into the forest to watch the streams splashing over rocks in the moonlight - we can’t know God otherwise.

[@shri777]

check Alexei Lubimov version of this beautiful masterpiece, it is on the ECM records album "Der Bote", by the way astonishing music on that particular CD "Der Bote"

[@marceloluis4000]

Lo más lindo es tocarlo en el piano.

[@cambridgeport90]

I can't tell whether this is F Minor tuned to 440, or F# Minor tuned to 430. I love it all the same, though; will need to learn more of Glinka, it looks like.

[@raisachepcherenko7897]

Очень хорошо по звуку.! Но почему всё так убыстренно? Как будто на пластинке с другой скоростью...

[@tatjanagejbel9153]

Мой госэкзамен....

[@minhhangtran789]

Well, i'm learning how to play this and i'm gonna die before I can play this perfectly

[@steveegallo3384]

Chan Hana -- So just play it IMPERFECTLY....and PROLONG your Life. At least THIS is an easy piece. I've been imperfectly playing Rakhmaninov's 2nd all my life...and have never been executed.

[@b-csundgren568]

👍

[@nguyenthithanhphuong06]

Mình đang học phân tích bài này☺️

[@tiagoaresta7754]

I played this piece in public once, now I forgot about it and I just want to read it and study it again

[@user-yc5yi9ed5x]

Глинка -Разлука

[@Lengo67]

Thanks for the great liner notes. So many people fail to provide adequate descriptions. Yours are very appreciated. Erm, save for one thing. Who is the pianist?

[@thenameisgsarci]

Thanks for the feedback, I really do appreciate it. As for the name, I will strongly advise everyone to take a close look at the first 10 seconds of the video.

[@israasamir2342]

Lovely can you send me sheet music that is played not the one in the video or link where i can find it thanks

[@r0mmm]

Does anybody now the difficulty in g. Henle Score or RCSM?

[@ruoyunbai5294]

Its been 45 years since i heard this lovely piece of music. like if you love beethoven better.

[@alech9418]

Lol, my sheet is the exact same one all marked up like this and everything.

[@thenameisgsarci]

i suddenly thought that you were the one who made those marks on the score. unless, if you actually are...

[@alech9418]

@@thenameisgsarci Well, truthfully I dont speak whatever language is on these sheets. My piano teacher, however is Russian, and my copy came from her. Let the witch hunt begin!

[@shhh.im.thinking3069]

Can anyone help in choosing the versions? There seems to be two of them completely different in the left hand, so I don't know which one's the right one.

[@marciareginaerthalmurad3442]

Adoro essa música!!Vc tem a partitura dela?

[@mvmarchiori]

Aqui pelo KZbin não dá pra passar, mas se vc procurar no Google "glinka separation PDF" vai aparecer um site, logo o primeiro, chamado IMSLP. Lá tem 2 edições pra baixar de graça. Espero que ajude :)

[@marceloluis4000]

La podes conseguir en IMSLP.

[@arnestroehmann3188]

Maybe you like to compare the recording of the 8-year old Trifonow also available here on KZbin Though he is „only“ a child, for me, his interpretation has more soul than this one

[@sachikokogure]

When I heard this piece for the first time, it was the one played by that 8-year-old Daniil Trifonow. It sounded so beautiful and pure. I listened to it with tears in my eyes and many times. After that, I tried to listen to the ones played by other pianists as well but to my surprise, it is always and only Daniil’s Nocturne that makes me cry. Thank you very much.

[@nicolaspenaarias998]

0:32

[@romanhands-3766]

I WAnT vODkA

[@marinawehrli7998]

Very beautiful ! PIANOMARINA.CH Composer from Switzerland

[@GH-iw5ew]

imslp.org/wiki/La_s%C3%A9paration_%28Glinka,_Mikhail%29 I think this is the same version on Imslp. Even though the audio appears to be different, many improvise though it makes it tougher to follow sometimes. Here is a better one for flute: ks4.imslp.info/files/imglnks/usimg/8/84/IMSLP26405-PMLP17597-Glinka__-La_Separation-__Nocturne_Cello_Piano.pdf

[@profel.3487]

Thanks a Lot, buddy!

[@musiclover148]

This might have been a pleasant little novelty, but the pianist plays it as though he is angry at being forced to do so. I found the performance inappropriately heavy, clumpy, mechanical - not a good sales pitch for the piece.

[@GiorgioSeverini]

Reminds a little bit of Scarlatti sonata.

[@Lizettaliza]

Alexander Sokolov plays Glinka

[@philipgranado]

It honestly breaks my heart to sed people saying this is beautifully played.. I hate the way this is played, without any emotion in my opinion

[@potassiumnitrate5817]

Try to listen to it more times. Try catching the ritardando in the bass chords or the brighter parts, played with some irony, like evoking melancholy or nostalgia

[@philipgranado]

@@potassiumnitrate5817 I don't agree, it's too mechanical for my taste, far away from how i would play it

[@user-cx8km6is3z]

Русский ковчег…

[@KEVIN-hh8oc]

I think piano's song is Russian the best

[@greenapple306]

Ja-In Koo its a piece not a song

[@nss4472]

@@greenapple306 actually nocturne basically is the song written for piano😁

[@haasva2637]

there is no 480p available btw

[@InvestingForTomorrow24]

Piquant

[@wilis290555]

Michał Glinka nie czuł się nigdy Rosjaninem. Był Polakiem z Łomży. Polakiem się czuł od urodzenia aż do śmierci

[@friendlyfriend8284]

Great job putting the score together, must have taken you 2 hours to do so. Do you mind putting the name of the interpreter Mr. Sokolov in the title, since he dedicated his life to the art of the interpretation?ffs

[@thenameisgsarci]

It's there in the title card.

[@thenameisgsarci]

And it didn't take me that long, I believe.

[@jadejaguar69]

Anyone think that this sounds like Victor's tune from a Corpse's Bride?

[@olgaavakyan5068]

Бесподобно

[@arqmontenegro]

Russians...

[@isabelfcb8121]

Amo la musica rusa!

[@ziwenjiao3391]

Hey! I my teacher used your Separation piece on the screen, took a picture of it/that, sended that to us, (sorry bad spelling) then we printed that out! But, I don’t really like your playing though. It’s too fast. (not trying to be mean but ya know, that’s what I really think)

[@thenameisgsarci]

2) Thanks for the story. :D 1) Once again, I'm NOT the one who played this.

[@richardlee8627]

This piece is one of the last remnants of Russian music

[@tinagairo1498]

Disagree. After 1840s there were many great Russian and soviet composers . You just do not know. Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Sviridov, Shostakovich - just fee...

[@thenameisgsarci]

Just fee?

[@handledav]

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[@Vic9994546]

Lovely piece but whoever is performing this is just slaying through it and ruining it.

[@Vic9994546]

So choppy and rushed

[@davidhoffman6980]

And it's an old or cheap piano in a room with bad acoustics-at one point you can even hear the piano bech creaking. It's the perfect storm. :-(

[@handledav]

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[@camsun7326]

0:14 Rachmaninov Concerto No 2

[@alexololo6644]

Im afraid this Not "very well played" , Im russian I know what im saying

[@reimakousei793]

Yea I'd agree

[@user-yp5rr2uy9q]

Ужасно. Лупит по клавишам словно молотком.... Где легкость, гибкость, грация, неуловимость, поэзия...???

[@MaestroStefanoPetrini]

banale

[@meziembamara4004]

Глинка- хорошо для беременных дам 🤰.

[@sasha42196]

There are many better performances of this piece out there. You picked a mediocre one.

[@thenameisgsarci]

At that point, I'm definitely encouraging you to make your own. :D

[@sasha42196]

@@thenameisgsarci That would be another mediocre performance which I don't care to share with the world.

[@thenameisgsarci]

@@sasha42196 same feelings for myself, actually.

[@lucienfournier8221]

that's played very bad and inexpressiv

[@1stEarlOfSurrey]

Lucien, I thought very much the same!

[@wcsxwcsx]

No, I just think it's the poor quality of the piano and the recording technique and acoustics.

[@ionutteodorescu8525]

Not true!

[@LL-zf3pj]

Beautiful!

[@ziwenjiao3391]

That’s all?

[@dbean5174]

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