Pletnev plays Scriabin Sonata no.4 in F sharp major, Op.30

[@jaejinlee8179]

seriously I consider this as one of the most sublime works of all music history

[@kofiLjunggren]

100% agree with you

[@emmanuelsebaali1767]

the sad thing is that some people would call such music *banging* , not knowing how much effort and time it takes in order to be able to appreciate such music.

[@karrotkake]

@@emmanuelsebaali1767yeah because it takes time to get used to and understand, and many people domt have the patience to appreciate this kind of music. they just hear it once and dislike it, thinking its gonna be the same when you listen to it again

[@HelloSpyMyLie]

No doubt. This is rare and singular music. I have a hard time putting anything besides Bach above it

[@FuckFeminists]

Pretentiousness. Scriabin and Bach are totally different musically. In Scriabin's area you have Faure, Debussy and Ravel, among others.

[@BenBader]

Nobody _breathes_ in this piece like Pletnev. His sense of time, breath, and his sensitivity for the long lines, are exactly what this sonata needs. The poem that inspired Scriabin depicts a joyous flight to a beautiful star. So often people play the coda like a violent rocket, but Pletnev plays it as if one were soaring on a rising volcanic plume, billowing through the air. Joyful and rapturous.

[@CarloGinex]

It feels like a gentle caresse from the sky. I remember it vividly, I felt astonished after I listened to this, all what was bothering me faded away in the sea in front of me. The quiet calmness peaked in me during the climax, where I saw my entire life passing beneath me. It's special, vivid,curious, changing,daring....

[@vincenttong1764]

And not to forget to add: that the star is swallowed! What an imagination by Scriabin.

[@cameronspeirs1588]

Haven’t heard a better performance….🎹🥇🍷❤️

[@stravinskyfan]

​@@cameronspeirs1588 1st movement might be debatable, but 2nd movement, Pogorelich is the only one who gets it right

[@stravinskyfan]

Pletnev's playing of the 1st movement is superb, but he lacks the spirit the 2nd movement was supposed to convey. If you read the poem you'd understand.

[@tarikeld11]

7:58 that bass note, just wow...

[@gankunzhang]

0:00 1st movement 3:05 2nd movement

[@AjLongsPiano]

One of the most beautiful works ever written.

[@Джейсон-в2е]

+AjLongsPiano 　Have you listened to his preludes?

[@AjLongsPiano]

+Jason Of course!

[@Davidpianist-ge5et]

Well, certainly along with sonata no. 4. I also love nos. 2 and 9. I must admit I have never (yet) heard nos. 7 or 8 (my loss, I know)!

[@DihelsonMendonca]

Yes, this is also my favorite Sonata

[@MegaPianogenius]

AjLongsPiano mushy rubbish trying to be gauche and different but ultimately failing I'm substance I've played it but not worth learning only for technical practice

[@OdinLimaye]

One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written in all of human history.

[@FuckFeminists]

Well, you know best don't you.

[@nicholasfox966]

1:37-2:20 is one of the most extraordinary passages in all of the piano literature. There are many instances of composers dividing the music into three or even four staves to accommodate a great deal of material that is ranging across the keyboard--that's not unusual. What's unique about this passage is that Scriabin manages to literally make it sound as though three hands are playing at the same time. It's not even that it's so terribly busy or complicated. It's just that the orchestral manner in which he has deployed the three levels of material sounds individuated to the utmost degree. The illusion is nearly as perfect as in any work that I know of. It's almost frightening.

[@luizmelofilho]

Credits to this pianist that have managed to show this so goddamn well

[@browne8688]

Nicholas Fox ististsitsistsististsitsistsitssitsistssiysysysisysiysysisysysysysisysysisysisyisysisysisyssiysisyssiyssiyssiyssiysysisysisyssiyssiysysyssiysysyssysysyisysysisyssisyisyissysyssysyssyssiysisysisysysyisyisysyissysiysisisysisysyisyisysisysiysysiysysysysysysisysyisysysysyisyisysysysysysysiysysiysisysisysisysyssitsysysysisysyssiystisysyisysysisyisysyssiysisysssysistsysysssysitssisysyisisystststsysysisysysisysiyssiysyststsisyisysisyisystsystssitsysysyot

[@minkhmin]

Nicholas Fox. Thanks a lot for highlighting this passage. I wasn't aware of it until now!

[@s.v.7332]

People like you make comments worth scrolling through. Do you have any other insights that you can share? It's just so interesting, what you've said :)

[@JeremyNohel]

@@s.v.7332 Playing that passage feels like your two hands are two separate people, it's a very strange experience

[@58flixbu]

Pletnev is a magician whose way how to touch the piano fits particularly with Scriabin! Some time ago I heard him live with 24 Scriabin Preludes, he moved through this terribly challenging stuff like a dream walker, completely merging with the meaning of the music.... Same thing here....

[@peter5.056]

Every time I hear this piece, I imagine that if Chopin had lived another 50 or 60 years, his music would have evolved into something like this. And I mean that as the highest compliment to Scriabin:)

[@polka678]

this and Scriabin's sonata no 5 op 53 are two of my most favourite pieces of music that I have ever listened to.

[@wigman1962]

Definetely a sonata that I have ever listened to

[@SpaceAgeOdyssey]

A glimpse of heaven from earth. Scriabin had a divine gift.

[@derekpintozzi2498]

7:20-8:36 is the most beautiful f sharp major chord progression I’ve ever heard

[@krvr989]

No u

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@krvr989 I, sometimes, also define myself as a chord progressions.

[@loonjoshua6416]

Man i wish one day I could be a beautiful f sharp major chord progression

[@jere3558]

Yeah me too

[@bibobabu8756]

A distant relative of mine is an A flat major chord progression

[@polka678]

No one can use a stabbing chord pattern as effectively as Scriabin could in many of his brilliant compositions.

[@elrichardo1337]

the 4th and 5th sonatas really do represent scriabin's progression toward single-movement structure

[@rosiefay7283]

I agree, and I would add the 3rd sonata's last two movements to that.

[@riceinn9437]

Соната для ф-п №4 00:01 I ч. 03:05 II ч. - ГТ 03:46 II ч. - ПТ 05:08 II ч. - тема I части в разработке 07:20 II ч. - Кода

[@RaptorT1V]

Спс за таймкоды А эту сонату в колледже или консе проходят?

[@riceinn9437]

@@RaptorT1V честно говоря, не знаю приходят ли в колледже, у меня она была в консе

[@user-mt1rh9gw8y]

​@@RaptorT1Vу меня в школе на музлит была, классе в 7-8

[@user-mt1rh9gw8y]

А, и потом ещё в 12 классе

[@RaptorT1V]

и чё прям с подробным анализом?)@@user-mt1rh9gw8y

[@KaledTK]

This music belongs to another time and a different world, Her beauty is not of this world or of this moment

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@samuelmincarelli5051 Haha! We all do!

[@vine2197]

s

[@FuckFeminists]

Scriabin was a bloke

[@mmarinesss]

🔷 1 часть 🔸Тема звезды - 0:00 🔸Середина - 0:52 🔸Реприза (тема звезды) - 1:37 🔷 2 часть 🔸ГП - тема полета - 3:06 🔸ПП - 3:46 🔸ЗП - 4:20 🔸Разработка - 4:35 Тема звезды из 1ч - 5:08 🔸Реприза: ГП - 5:32 ПП - 6:07 ЗП - 7:06 🔸Кода - 7:20

[@staceytikhonov282]

МаримбОчка урааааа))

[@RaptorT1V]

чё, тоже проходите в колледже эту сонату?)

[@МарияКоденко-т5о]

❤❤❤спасибо большое!

[@classicalmusiclover4029]

This piece took a little bit of time for me. Now I love it.

[@sansetto2417]

1 часть (Andante, ABA): [0:00] • тема звезды (т. томления по определению Скрябина) [1:36] • тема звезды в репризе 2 часть (Prestissimo vonando, сон.ф.): [3:06] • ГП - тема полета [3:46] • ПП [5:07] • РАЗРАБОТКА, т. звезды как тема воли [7:20] • КОДА, т. звезды как тема наивысшей грандиозности

[@bartremmelzwaal5775]

The melody from the introduction in mov 1 in a totally different state on the top layer at 7:19, magnificent.

[@thebrygi1648]

Probably my favorite reoccurrence of a theme I’ve heard

[@elrichardo1337]

we hear a similar recasting of the opening theme in the 5th sonata

[@thebrygi1648]

@@elrichardo1337 he’s so good at variations on themes!

[@kofiLjunggren]

There is really something special when composers bring back themes but in a variation, like for exemple Rach 2, 1st mvt. Liszt mephitso Waltz no 1, and this somata ofcourse

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@kofiLjunggren Maybe it's when our mind trying to say "Wait, I know this, but it's not like when I saw it. I LOVE IT!"

[@robertflynn6686]

I've always admired Pletnevs piano 🎹 😍

[@PieInTheSky9]

The most startling thing about this piece to me are the bird calls at 0:59 and 1:09. The entire first movement brings to mind the singing of birds in the early morning. Scriabin himself wrote this based on a poem about flying towards a beautiful star, so it could easily apply poetically. So beautiful!

[@Nonononono213]

This music seems to come from another world, and its amazing

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@Nonononono213 It shows that even with 12 notes on the keyboard, we haven't discovered everything about it.

[@alexanderbayramov2626]

@@segmentsAndCurves checks with your profile name tbh

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@alexanderbayramov2626 hehe

[@bibobabu8756]

Do you happen to know the name of the poem?

[@PatrickDirksMr]

First recording of this piece I encountered. Now I can't picture it any other way. Amazing work!

[@fabulouspug1138]

i bet

[@mikhailtrushechkin1642]

Hi:) I wonder how would You like this?....kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnrYoo2aZ8mUkJo

[@johnphillips5993]

Best recording of this piece by far. There’s just so much sensitivity in Pletnev’s playing. I like that he also takes time in the piece for the sake of this sensitivity, because it’s impossible to give this music justice if you just blow through it at a strict prestissimo tempo without taking time, like Pogorelich kinda does. Oh and the way Pletnev plays the coda is nothing short of magical.

[@abyssofmymind]

I don't like the way Pogorelich plays it. Pletnev is the best ❤

[@johnphillips5993]

@@abyssofmymind he just warhorses through the second movement, and the 1st movement is way too slow

[@olimpic5144]

Brilliant music performed brilliantly. Michael Pletnev is a genius.

[@davidrehak3539]

Alekszandr Szkrjabin:4.Fisz-dúr Zongoraszonáta Op.30 1.Andante 00:00 2.Prestissimo volando 03:05 Mihail Pletnyov-zongora

[@danieluman4793]

I like how he develops from this piece to create Sonata 5. The second movement; this whole piece feels somewhat similar.

[@WesCoastPiano]

That's because literally everything Scriabin wrote sounds exactly the same.

[@danieluman4793]

@@WesCoastPiano I guess now that I think about it

[@SCRIABINIST]

The ending climax "estatico" has the very repetitive chords similar to the ending climax of this piece

[@Whatismusic123]

​@@WesCoastPiano no it doesn't lmao. That's a problem with how you listen to his music; where you only look for an emotion to attach to it thus being incredibly close minded to its strengths.

[@suburbaninhabitor]

​@@WesCoastPianoI don't see much similarity between this and the 5th besides maybe using similar techniques but besides that the emotions it conveys are completely different

[@marcsmith7789]

That ending is just gorgeous. So full of yearning.

[@wavechamber]

Scriabin's writing is the God in the world of piano repertoire, no one ever written anything like him.

[@FuckFeminists]

Have you ever heard of Faure, Debussy, Satie, Ravel...

[@derekpintozzi2498]

5:00 - 5:20 how could one think of something like this

[@ILoveMagic15]

This piano sonata is soooo underrated!

[@classicalmusiclover4029]

True

[@gwynbleiddroach2589]

Isn’t Scriabin himself rather underrated?

[@happycreeper6923]

I thought this was one of the most played Scriabine's sonatas...

[@segmentsAndCurves]

@@happycreeper6923 That would be the 2nd, my friend.

[@moonjunsu]

0:00 ~ 1:34 3:04 4:30 발전부시작 4:55 7:00

[@christopherczajasager9030]

A joy to hear this performance after the earth- bound playing of it last week here in Berlin.......

[@happycreeper6923]

Une de ses sonates les plus écoutées... Et aussi une des meilleures pour moi Merci

[@jiaxuli1013]

Hope one day I can play this. (I can play this now, guys! Four years later finally, even though rather crudely. :)

[@williamnelson792]

Me too.

[@chanyeolay._.1218]

Me2

[@realityproof_0891]

I think this sonata isnt as hard as scriabins other sonatas

[@danielalaura7304]

...fenomenalno,kao i sve drugo sto Mihail Pletnjov svira...

[@wigman1962]

This is definetelly by far one of Scriabin's sonatas that he had ever written!

[@PorpandPinky]

It reminds me of sunlight really trying to break through the dark clouds by dancing and almost achieving it at times ~ Gen 🌸

[@rolfpianist3829]

Such colors have never been drawn out of the piano since Horowitz... fabulous

[@fabulouspug1138]

crazy right ?!!

[@mikhailtrushechkin1642]

Hi:) I wonder how would You like this?....kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnrYoo2aZ8mUkJo

[@futurists7076]

Version magistrale, à mon avis parmi l'une des plus grandes qui soit. Et dans ces cas là c'est toujours l'oeuvre qui gagne à la fin.

[@svetlanagrinstein8944]

Когда слышатся все голоса,а время исполнительское протекает спокойно тогда обьёмность фактуры воздействует и возникует образ в своем сложном рисунке. Лучшее исполнение из всех слышанных мною.

[@monarihtas8619]

1 частина: тема - с.78; 2 частина: Г.П. - с.82, 03:05; П.П. - с.83, такт 21, 03:46; Розробка - с. 84, такт 48, 04:35; тема 1 частини - с. 87, такт 66, 05:08; Реприза - с. 87, такт 82, 05:32; Кода - с. 90, такт 144, 07:20.

[@MikhailSamoilenko]

Спасибо!

[@pigeon1451]

Балдеж!!! Такой кайф словил!!

[@nadastojanovic9585]

What a beautiful piece of music!

[@DihelsonMendonca]

My favorite Sonata, and my favorite interpreter !

[@СергійТурлак]

I bet ivo pogorelich will argue

[@mikhailtrushechkin1642]

Hi:) I wonder how would You like this?....kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnrYoo2aZ8mUkJo

[@DihelsonMendonca]

​@@mikhailtrushechkin1642 Hi, I listened to your performance of the sonata. If you want to know what I think...you play really well. This is my favorite Scriabin sonata and I may have hundreds of versions. Yours is excellent as there are other many ones. Although I have listened to it several times, I notice that Pletnev version is deeper. He doesn´t simply follow the sheet music blindly, but he creates spaces inside it. He plays on a more free way, great imagination, creativity. When we play classical pieces, we shall avoid playing everything as it is written, we need to create our personal and unique mark, we must forget the papers and try to figure out the musical ideas beyond that. Not only playing crescendos and all the written stuff. We need to be totally free to make the piece as if it were our own. Pletnev and some other people do that. We must give life to a dead written paper, not only playing the right notes on the right tempo. Music is about passion. But you play very fine. Please, always play such a music as if you are in complete love and passion, as it were the first time you discovered that you are alive, when you discover the supreme beauty of the universe, play with these elements in mind, and you´ll find the passion it deserves, until you burst into tears of joy. That´s music.

[@mikhailtrushechkin1642]

@@DihelsonMendonca 100% agree with You! Any pianist should perform 100% of the text written in the score... and something more...that is not written! I also love Pletnev interpritation:) And S.Feinberg... But I used to do my way... My revelations and my delusions - are mine...:) Any way, I appreciate Your opinion:) You are pianist yourself? May be You will enjoy this...;)... 5 sonata kzbin.info/www/bejne/f6Daaoawdqt1jbM

[@DihelsonMendonca]

​@@mikhailtrushechkin1642 Certainly you are a first class pianist. Any classical music lover would perceive that. And by playing so well, in such a master class level, you deserve thousands and hundred thousands followers in your youtube channel. Unfortunately, the world is not right, there are thousands of people playing really bad which is widely known, they even achieve the celebrity level, and there are true gifted people which can´t cope with social networks, or doesn´t "fit" on the nonsensical thing as being a youtuber musician. For what I know, most of the great gifted musicians have a small really small channel, with a few followers. It´s not fair, but a person can´t do all things at the same time. You can´t be a world class pianist, dedicated to music, and run a youtube channel that consumes all your time, effort, because you need to study the instrument, perfect pieces, record them, etc. Good music is such a difficult thing these days, when bad music is all over the places, and people are forgetting the great values of the past. I wish you good peace in your heart, good health, and success. You deserve. But don´t go for it. Life is not about success, but about happiness, and there´s a big difference among the two words. Basicaly, success is achieving a goal, while happiness and being happy and grateful with your life, with what you have achieved, and being happy about yourself. You discover happiness inside you, and it gives peace in your heart, while the pursuit of success often bring us stress, sadness, anger, competition, and sorrow. All the best.

[@andrea1741]

I love this!!!

[@sociocrat263]

This is the best version ever. Forever

[@realityproof_0891]

Imfind urgorskys better

[@rubenvaudio]

I hear familiar elements from both the 3rd sonata (especially the last movement) and the 5th. This sonata seems to form a bridge between those two: the late romantic 3rd and the more modern sounding 5th. I still like those two better, but this can surely stand on its own as well.

[@seanfogarty5559]

Major goosebumps!

[@Ivan_1791]

What a mysterious and passionate work.

[@Ivan_1791]

@Jemand Anderes Nice performance, although I like the first movement a bit more suspended in the air. Just personal preference.

[@harleyspianochannel9442]

3:06 1page 6:17 7page

[@nahidhasan2568]

Das Video hat mir sehr gut gefallen. Ich werde mir noch mehr solcher Videos ansehen. Ich liebe dein Klavierspiel

[@lester2340]

1st movement 0:00 2nd movement 3:05

[@inraid]

beyond imagination!

[@entermayor1312]

A very strange interpretation. I've never heard such a dreamy final "flight", in most cases it is treated as a violent, almost neurotic ecstacy (i.e. Sofronitsky, and it should be noted that his interpretation could be pretty close to the original Scriabin's one), which sees such flight as an heroic struggle. Traditionally, the idea of "flying to the stars" is left for the very last bars (8.19), but Pletnev tackles it as soon as that serie of chords starts (7.18), conveying perfectly the same exact ideas from a whole new angle.

[@adamrischel3810]

I loved the start of the second part, amazingly played. My all-time favourite recording will have to be Sokolov´s, though.

[@themoonfleesthroughclouds]

Every time I hear the name Sokolov I just think of MGS3 lmao

[@라쏠-y4j]

Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 👏 brava brava!!!

[@entermayor1312]

1.05 That's the second theme from Schumanm's Piano Quintet, 1st movement.

[@jboushka]

Sounds a bit like Liszt with a Parisian overlay, from a Russian composer. Quite an interesting short sonata.

[@coreylapinas1000]

Its clearly inspired by Wagner

[@wcsxwcsx]

Yes, I think Scriabin would be pleased.

[@LucasPianoSalon]

00:01 Andante 03:35 Prestissimo Volando

[@HernandoCruz]

La pieza mas dificil que toque

[@vine2197]

Suertudo

[@themobiusfunction]

I can't understand it

[@melenita57]

@@themobiusfunction he said it's the hardest piece he has ever played

[@ludimagister-2005]

I play it today on exam

[@ОлексійГошій-т4б]

He is a genius

[@Real_Scriabin_Official]

Love this one

[@ОльгаЗюзина-й9т]

Браво!!!

[@VladimirSultanovSoultanov]

Замечательно. Наконец-то симфонический а не пианистический взгляд

[@LucasPianoSalon]

7:19 Finale

[@guillermomarrufo4848]

@fritzmaishenbacher When I hear someone criticize in such a coarse manner like you did makes me think of a spoiled or jealous person that will never be able to do a fraction of what he/she is criticizing.

[@fabulouspug1138]

you are right

[@vine2197]

5:18 🤩

[@Zoldilol]

wonderful

[@raisinbrahms]

just making sure...at 5:39, is there a misprint? seems to be an extra eigth rest in the first beat in the RH...i assume the octave pickup is together with the g sharp in the LH?

[@isaiah1156]

Henle lacks the 8th rest, but maybe there's another solution.

[@happycreeper6923]

Certains passages m'évoquent la troisième sonate...

[@journey3451]

フランスの音楽のようですが、やはりスクリャービンですね。切り取られて聞かされてもおっ！というところが 出てくるのでわかる気がします。スクリャービンクイズ１００点取れる気がします（笑）

[@NOSEhow2LIV]

Very fine performance in many ways, a suitably mystic introduction and,as usual,some remarkable pianism throughout.But the"volando" is tripped up straightaway by teasing mannerisms which continue periodically.A strange choice for this artist,one of the few,surely,able to acheive the feat of realising this elusive piece to the full.There's an astonishing mis-read at 2.44, amazing how one note can alter the idiom,just for an instant!

[@themobiusfunction]

2:44 Also 3:40

[@veganworldorder9394]

My favorite scriabin work with the etude op 8 no 12

[@vine2197]

3:45 😍

[@fabrigasan2150]

Pensa a quelli belli …😳

[@avvocatostyle]

Che vuol dire sto commento

[@АнастасияЧерепанова-б5ф]

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[@edyallreadygalaxy717]

The finale of this sonata is similary to the finaly of the Etude Op 8 No 12. Wtf dude.

[@ciararespect4296]

Scriabin.. Let me compose the most awkward rhythm music in existence

[@Davideberti]

at 7.58 BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@likei8547]

awesome

[@fabulouspug1138]

I agree

[@Dasewig_Weibliche]

넘넘 좋다...

[@Pookie1-q2w]

Goodbye my lover

[@fabulouspug1138]

bye bye

[@Whatismusic123]

did he play G natural instead of double sharp? 3:40

[@themobiusfunction]

Where is the Gx

[@Whatismusic123]

3:40 measure 4 @@themobiusfunction

[@themobiusfunction]

​@@Whatismusic123 wait he did

[@최유안학생기악과]

00:00 1st 03:05 2nd

[@r_on_]

有因為江老師過來的嗎？

[@beethovenianho1642]

沒有

[@themobiusfunction]

4:35 p = porte 6:59 f = fiano

[@jere3558]

Nice tweak there at 2:43

[@waretada]

The 1-st movement - is very good! But Gavrilov's Volando is better :)

[@andreamontevecchi6649]

01:00 William Tell

[@shimsham9113]

scriabin is in his own tier

[@Jing-oj8vh]

5:32, 6:07, 6:29, 6:49 7:20

[@musicsubicandcebu1774]

Pianos everywhere live in fear of Scriabin.

[@vine2197]

6:35 😶

[@minjuncho4157]

7:20

[@stefanocerato6931]

💘❤

[@AlejandroSanAntonio]

I like Gavrilov's and Hamelin's :D

[@marsaeolus9248]

Divin

[@gunwookim4047]

5:08 wow

[@artbugzrecords]

Bliss