Nikolai Roslavets ‒ 5 Preludes

[@EggMCMUFFIN-e4l]

Each piece has its own flavor and very distinct aroma.

[@andrewferguson1227]

Clean your apartment bro

[@EggMCMUFFIN-e4l]

@@andrewferguson1227lol tf?

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Love this!

[@smb123211]

Did he have synesthesia also? LOL Very dream-like and like you know who. Still, beautiful compositions that deserves a wider hearing. I am still amazed that our symphony plays the same thing year after year - the Three "Bs", Mozart, Hadyn, Handel, a little Rach, Tchai, Dvorak, etc. A new director promised "different" music but it was the atonal, experimental type that had to be given a long explanation that no one understood since there was utter confusion on when - of it - to applaud. My favorite "new" piece - a Chinese work with odd, wrenching sounds, odd instruments and primitive "singing" from mortified symphony members as they played. Absolutely Indescribable!

[@blacknwhitesalright]

smb12321 “the atonal, experimental type” - I wish the symphony here played that.

[@alexj1161]

Interesting (in a very good way) set of Scriabinesque preludes. No. 3 in particular sounds like a very good contender for Scriabin’s op. 75; it is very reminiscent of his extremely late style.

[@MegaCirse]

Ce grand compositeur était un révolutionnaire dans la lignée de Scriabine qui a été attaqué et condamné au silence par les tenants du «réalisme socialiste». Beaucoup de ses partitions ont malheureusement disparu, mais il traverse le temps avec une poésie et une féérie proprement stupéfiantes !

[@junyongkang3382]

this remind me scriabin..

[@null8295]

yeah, Roslavets was deeply infulenced by Scriabin's late works

[@SCRIABINIST]

@@null8295 I think he utilized a lot of the sound aspect of Scriabin, but he had his own chord theories and stuff

[@opustravels3659]

I love it!

[@SCRIABINIST]

Colours = Shapes = Sound

[@EggMCMUFFIN-e4l]

Every sense is invoked when I listen to music. I can often times taste the sound of the music or imagine all types of abstract geometric shapes. Some chords feel prickly and some feel soft and soothing to touch.

[@jacobseymour7221]

Oh gee, the flow of this beautiful music was interrupted by an ad for prescription drugs. I think I'll go out and buy some... said no one ever.

[@handledav]

yeah

[@quentinholmes4333]

Roslavets had different opinions on capitalism than you have

[@Poeme340]

No. 5 is particularly sweet IMHO.

[@MalabarTheGreat]

Is it just me, or has Roslavets been getting rediscovered, recently? I keep seeing people mention him, in comments.

[@aram285]

i think the classical nerd made a video on him? i haven't watched it yet

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@aram285 WATCH IT!

[@aram285]

@@segmentsAndCurves THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME

[@SCRIABINIST]

It''s only a matter of time until people find out, which is a good thing. Roslavets is more than a Russian Schoenberg or a second Scriabin

[@ЛилияРодионовакомпозитор]

Слушать долго невозможно

[@eugenepashch5213]

Thank you!

[@Ridicolosamente]

Great stuff!

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

You have to give the Soviets credit for burying a genius like Roslavets. The forces of darkness are always hard at work. Be on your guard.

[@mysterium364]

I like Roslavets as much as any, but you are oversimplifying. I think they made a mistake politically suppressing the Avant-Garde scene, but you have to understand what the government of the USSR was up against at the time. It takes a lot of work lifting a country out of feudalism and protecting it against those who would exploit its labor. There's always going to be a few false positives in the type of crackdown necessary to develop a country without foreign or domestic exploitation. Roslavets was sadly in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

@@mysterium364 And now you are going to tell me how nice Stalin was. What a guy! He only killed 20 million people.

[@mysterium364]

@@stephenjablonsky1941 Yeah, and Roslavets was a member of a terrorist organization. Look it up. You can't boil everything down to good and evil. It's more complicated than that.

[@quentinholmes4333]

You are a victim of propaganda. I like roslavets, and i dont have to by into the bs, “they silenced his music because it was weird” brainworms. he was in trouble from hanging around antigovernment individuals at a time when sabatoge was coming from all directions. The soviet government was flawed, but this narrative is pure propaganda. You think propaganda is obvious, it isnt. thats the whole point

[@quentinholmes4333]

You have no source on that information. The “great” purges ( affecting a tiny part of broader society) and holodymor (well established to have been unintentional and down to economic mismanagement and natural disaster) only make up a few million at MOST. Where is your condemnation of previous famines before the soviets? Where is your condemnation of the ghouls that sent russians into ww1? Western propaganda through and through

[@mysterium364]

#3 Scriabin Sonata 8 reference?

[@beecolor]

I hate those who put advertising in the middle of the music: they are anti-musical people (too bad because Roslavets is beautiful)

[@beecolor]

@SIU MAN LI Neither, but I've reported you for discrimination

[@Prometeur]

Download AdBlock, it's seriously a life saver.

[@rondorondo557]

KZbin puts the ads there, not the channel's owner, so it can generate ad revenue for the copyright holders. You can see that in the description. Just explaining that it happens for a reason beyond the channel's influence, although still unfortunate.

[@mysterium364]

7:47 Doesn't sound right. I know I have no right to complain, but my hope is that someday we will get mistake-free renditions of Roslavets music. Heck, there are probably mistakes all over this recording that I don't notice because this is the only recording I listen to of the Roslavets Preludes. Only way I noticed this one is that it is an obvious repetition of a sequence of notes that doesn't sound like it is supposed to be repeated. Unfortunately, I have not practiced piano regularly in 5 years and I am in engineering school. And I have never played anything like this before. So I probably won't be playing Roslavets any time soon.

[@CatkhosruShapurrjiFurabji]

Based

[@efun1234]

I feel like he and berg could be friends

[@Lircking]

sounds like depression

[@tedpiano]

Looks like Scriabin; sounds like Scriabin.

[@MalabarTheGreat]

This is good, but it doesn't come close to Scriabin.

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@MalabarTheGreat More like Scriabin in terms of theory.

[@Bruceykeys]

You can hear the experimental, theoretical approach in Roslavets whereas Scriabin is a lot more organic, warmer and self assured

[@RedZed1974]

These sound like Ravel and Prokofiev sat down, smoked opium and tried to imitate Debussy.

[@na-kun2136]

Did you heard Scriabins music?(late period op.65-74)

[@Luca-yg5qx]

@@na-kun2136 I think you could say his late period already starts with his op 60, Prometheus.

[@na-kun2136]

@@Luca-yg5qx yup

[@kotopec4978]

@@Luca-yg5qx I'd say even after 58 op

[@singtatsucgc3247]

Scriabin

[@ЛаврентийПоляков-я5п]

очень не музыкально.. Будто робот играет просто ноты, простите.

[@rushana1956]

Все в порядке. Просто вы - русский:) все остальные - наслаждаются

[@ЛаврентийПоляков-я5п]

@@rushana1956 мне нравятся эти гармонии и сам композитор. Есть исполнители которые эту музыку играют по-другому. Более чувственно.

[@jean-francois.chemila]

Ayant entendu que Roslavets utilisait le système de composition du dernier Scriabine, et surpris que Roslavets soit dédaigné par les pianistes concertistes, j'ai écouté ces préludes. J'ai vite compris : pas de thème ni même de motif clairement définissable. Aucune trame narrative sous-jacente. Des oeuvres angoissées mais sans génie et sans aucun fil conducteur. Une oeuvre qui ne signifie rien n'est pas digne d'intérêt, disait Chopin. Un compositeur qui restera à jamais aux oubliettes, comme tant d'autres qui ont voulu remplacer l'absence d'inspiration par des harmonies dissonantes cachant leur assèchement créatif derrière un hermétisme altier. Les 5 préludes du petit Julian Scriabine de onze ans valent cent fois mieux que ceux là.

[@franksmith541]

You know nothing of this music. It shows how ignorant you are of modern music and harmonies that you criticize it based on a statement by Chopin - from a completely different Era! Roslavets was a genius and these works are sublime. Go back to your Mozart and Chopin and stop writing on a subject you know nothing about. Blocked.

[@jemtheweeknd97]

Вы стали одним из тех, кто не понимает суть такой музыки, мне очень жаль вас..

[@jean-francois.chemila]

@@jemtheweeknd97 Je comprends parfaitement l'essence d'une telle musique, sombre, rêveuse, tourmentée, extatique, je vois les marches harmoniques, je pressens le système harmonique. Et j'ai composé trois pièces dans le style de la dernière période de Scriabine. Mais si vous ne réalisez pas que Scriabine a un génie bien plus puissant que celui de Roslavets, je suis vraiment triste pour vous. Il y a bien pire que Roslavets cependant, c'est la sonate N°1 de Sabaneyev; et je reconnais quelques qualités à Roslavets, qui est attentif à la forme comme Scriabine.

[@ЛилияРодионовакомпозитор]

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[@jemtheweeknd97]

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