Scriabin - Poème-Nocturne op 61

[@federico6485]

Not only his music sounds poetic, but also his sheet looks like abstract painting.

[@viktorartemiev525]

Sydney Irwin Pollack?

[@klangschatten5610]

Languorous, seductive, mysterious music, beautiful playing. Thank you very much.

[@paulamrod537]

I have played this piece for over 40 years and will until I pass away.

[@pianomanhere]

Always wished I had learned more Scriabin in my youth...

[@paulamrod537]

@Neo Sannyasin Hi Neo, it is constructed upon logical modal movement based on a logical movement of the tritone. It is based in Wagner and Debussy nonetheless Scriabin's modes are more adventurous.

[@paulamrod537]

@@pianomanhere Better now than necer. He is truly fascinated and started an entire movement of Russian Avant Garde that Stalin ceased. Roslavec and Mosolov and Ubokov were some of the composers.

[@pianomanhere]

@@paulamrod537 yes, I'm aware of Roslavets, Lyatnoshynsky, Protopopov and others of that school. Especially enjoy Roslavets...amazing discoveries we can make these days from people who post so much of this fine music ! 😊🎹

[@paulamrod537]

@@pianomanhere I am a composer who has studied this music and for me it was the third school of the twentieth century which fell into obscurity. I knew nothing about these rare Russian composers until 2018. Nonetheless I composed through Scriabin's influence a new style of classic. I also found Scriabin very adaptable to modern jazz. My website is www.amrod.de/audio Here you can hear a bit of my creations. Have a wonderful holiday and take care. Can I hear your music somewhere? Also I have a you tube channel. I am also a Messiaen nut!

[@DihelsonMendonca]

This is beyond... beyond the beyond... Scriabin went where no man has gone before...🎉❤❤❤

[@youngpaderewski3668]

When I listen to this, I feel as though I’ve been suddenly transported into some beautiful alien landscape.

[@SeeNoEvil5]

anyone who can play Scriabin must really have it together. This sounds fantastic. nicely produced. thank-you

This piece is just amazing, Scriabine was an awesome composer, i love it !

[@paulamrod537]

Check all of music from Opus 40 till the end and the work of Nemtin who finished his last sketches.

[@wcsxwcsx]

I must confess that I like these computer performances. So straightforward and unaffected, yet so surprisingly graceful. Of course, there are always performances by humans out there to add a little something extra. Hopefully something good, but not always.

[@erdavis7]

I think this is a lovely interpretation. It makes me dream: Alone in a strange, cool fog. I cannot describe the place or feeling well enough words, but to me the performance speaks it perfectly.

[@mikeg2924]

Music, performance, score - great! Thanks for uploading.

[@ElMelomanopesimista]

wow, played by the computer it feels more un-human, alienated. It fits. One of those examples where, emotionless playing conveys a new experience. Devoid of human interpretation. I am addicted to this recording!

[@popmushee]

It is not devoid of human interpretation. The user mastered this recording, playing with dynamics, timing, and timbre. Producer as performer.

[@Joeyboiification]

Sublime, seductive, super Scriabin!

[@sparkle1272001]

A very interesting interpretation! Somehow, you manage to maintain a certain amount of mysterious seductive yearning quality to the piece, and still make it sensual, fluid and tender at the same time! The ending was interestingly delicate too! Who is to say this isn't what Scriabin wanted the piece to sound like? Thank you for sharing it, I enjoyed it very much! :)

[@guidokorbach]

it really unbelievable what I hear here, as it then arrives in the body and leads to a Neptunian resolution

[@musicencyclopedia]

You've played and inerpreted this piece so much better than many piano players that I heard!! Excellent!!!

[@HarDiMonPetit]

Approaching, touching even the saturation of tonal language, Scriabin's music turns in anemic yet beautiful volutes. A good standpoint to consider the necessity of Schoenberg, isn't it?

[@gerardbegni2806]

This piece is of a quite subtle fragrance and perdfectly illustrates the medium period of Scriabin, but the gereral comment is erroneous. This piecee is not based upon a major/minor mode, but on the so-called Bertha mode (or 2nd limited transposition mode of Messiaen), a regular succession of 1/2 tones and tones - hende the Ebb which cloese the piece, obviously in Db: it is the half-tone above the tonic, the second sound of the Bertha mode. The last arpeggios evidence that mode. It is important to pinpoint that issue, since writing with syntheteic modes is the only key to Sriabin's last period works.

[@violaXplayer]

you did a very nice job here. It's a beautiful piece.

[@4hm3dimr4n]

I haven't heard that much. I have a bad habit where I obsess over a few pieces. But yea look at how his life changed as it went on and the people he came to meet. It's just fascinating how he evolved from practically mimicking Chopin to creating a whole new universe. I can believe that it was the same composer though. I sense Chopin-esque influences in parts of those later works. I think he learned though Chopin how to convey emotions in a provocative manner and took it to a whole new level.

[@harryandruschak2843]

To Charles: On a scale of 1 to 10, what is your favorite color of the alphabet?

[@RepentInReprise]

Harry Andruschak xD

[@karlpoppins]

+Harry Andruschak I prefer h, 2 or green; all the same colour. What about you, my friend?

[@tawanfathai]

+P. Marios Christodoulou I prefer Wednesday!

[@karlpoppins]

Marculus Haimon Well, Wednesday is certainly yellow, so not bad! By the way, I wasn't joking. I am a synesthete, at least with letters and numbers. I wish I were one like Scriabin, that could correlate sounds to colours!

[@tawanfathai]

P. Marios Christodoulou Neither was I joking. Days have colours to me, numbers, too.

[@licricardososa]

Wonderful music! I like Scriabin. Thanks. Ricardo, from Argentina

[@eurisko618]

Beautifully rendered! Very warm touch.

[@mikkeljs]

I like that question... It is possible for a tonedeaf without any technique to learn the notes, just like you would learn to tap a phone number really fast. If you can play the piece and make the ressonance sound as Scriabin intended, you can start applying for Chopin competition.

[@Scarbo09]

Very nice. My personal favorite in this work is Vitaly Margulis, but this is a really sensitive performance that I think would only be enhanced if it had been performed on a real piano.

[@jammybiskit]

Scriabin is a composer about whom I know nothing - this post has inspired me to find out more. Posting the score is a great idea. Thank you and well done. BTW I like your idea of a handle that is a palindrome.

[@jeanclaudelibert6614]

Beautiful !

[@ScriabinFanatic]

@Stivanification Ivory is a sample library... keyboard probably outputting in midi and fed into the Ivory, which is high quality sample library many gbs of sound.

[@Joeyboiification]

I'm in love all over again...

[@joloppo]

BS, it might not be clear at all times but playing Scriabin in an icy cold way works beautifully

[@FailDrummer]

Great description!

[@omgtkseth]

great piece...

[@4hm3dimr4n]

Scriabin seems to be a musician's musician. Without careful study or the right imagination, most are simply not capable of getting past the chaos and into the enlightened world of this true genius. If you like understand or know how to appreciate the fugue art form, you can get an explanation as to why great music may not survive. If you know how to appreciate a fugue, you will know that without adequate study of them, they tend to sound like a confusingly complex lot of melodies.

[@luap1229]

at 0:35 the Enatural that you played should be Eflat, same at 5:12 (there is a flat earlier in the bar). the sound is rather nice, to my surprise. well done.

[@4hm3dimr4n]

I suppose. Anyway what did you think about what I had to say? For the record, I find a lot of the overall sounds and tunes in late Scriabin to be VERY memorable.

[@lionsloin7869]

I love this piece. I love your work. - Best, Jim JJH friend and former colleague. ;>) Sorry it took so long to play it.

[@s1earle]

Yes you're so very right - John seems a fool out to convert others to his paradise by means of overbearing comments, so better we all let him be until he calms down and the dust settles around his ears...

[@s1earle]

For me Scriabin's piano music is very good, beckoning repeated hearings - I have the complete series played by Michael Ponti on 7DVDs and have heard all many times. However having said this I find that overall the late pieces are very good (eg the late Etudes) but like Liszt some late Scriabin music makes one wonder if written by the same composer.

[@javiervivanco919]

Maravillosas armonias

[@robertflynn6686]

This is NOT my idea of night music but who knows???

[@moonjunsu]

Wow

[@helenavondrakenstein4969]

Scriabin takes us outside the box

[@4hm3dimr4n]

part 2: The public don't generally have highly developed musical ears so that is why it is not memorable for them. They have not learned how to properly remember pieces like this because they have not learned how to listen to complex music for what it is. Btw, Scriabin's late works are gaining worldwide interest.

[@paulamrod537]

Once one is exposed to this marvelous music is isn't complex because it goes under the skin.

[@BasileusR]

thou art a brave man

[@4hm3dimr4n]

It seems that one can develop a case for this interpretation. There are pros to it. However, I would naturally side with you. This is not like the "insane soul steeped in beautiful mysteriousness" that feels as if it were improvised by emotions. I feel that if you miss out on the insanity, you miss out on a big part of Scriabin.

[@henrynash4402]

As his career progressed, Scriabin became more and more unconventional. His music became increasingly atonal and obscure. He wanted to shun key signatures altogether in favor of his mystic chord and odd grandiose Ideas. Kevin Gibson

[@toothlesstoe]

Joke's on you; this isn't even close to being atonal. And his "Mystic Chord" is nothing special; it's simply a C Lydian-dominant13 chord.

[@nalankadi1654]

If this piece were a youtube comment, it would end its comment by signing its name.

[@Joeyboiification]

That piece is sexy.

[@paulamrod537]

Scriabin is the best composer to express one's affections.

[@insertpseudonym5311]

...in what way?

[@s1earle]

Like Julius commented - 'he is a fool, let us now pass'...

[@s1earle]

Generally judging by the comments on this page and several others on YT relating to these late works, I think that my case is justified - one wonders why so many popular piano concertos stay in the repertory, might it be because of memorable musicality?

[@roxythrash7348]

It reminds me Dino Campana

[@davidpolkmusic]

yes.....

[@eusebiusseo9809]

스크리아빈음계(도레미파#라시#)이 후기낭만에서 현대음악으로 넘어가는 중요한 음계임데도 불구하고 우리는 잘 인지를 안하는데 이유는 이 음계 자체가 스크리아빈말고 다른 작곡가가 더이상 쓰지 않았고 Impressism과는 다른 개인적인 작곡 수단이었기 때문이라 생각한다

[@MattWeisherComposer]

Unfortunately for you, by most compositional standpoints, this is mainly tonal. haha

[@pianotutto]

It should be a crime to promulgate a MIDI mock-up of Scriabin.

[@davidpolkmusic]

+Richard Valitutto or at least warn us in the title...i had my hopes all up :/

[@PaulSmith-qs1es]

I very much enjoy this when I have questions about rhythms and am learning a piece.

[@samsoustiel4839]

R

[@MJE112358132134]

I have to say this is very good for a synthesized performance - probably the best such I've ever heard: I could almost take it for a real, human performance. What I like about it is that it is not riddled with the grossly excessive rubato that most pianists seem to use when playing Scriabin, thus obscuring his intricate and carefully notated rhythms; and the pedal seems to be handled well, too - which usually not the case with synthesized performances, whose dry (or even sometimes practically absent) pedalling instantly gives them away. The only faults I can find are a couple of wrong notes and a few notes, especially higher ones, that seem a bit dimmer than they should be, or sometimes practically inaudible. Also, perhaps a couple of the climactic parts could have built up a bit more, used a bit of acceleration of tempo, and even a touch (but only a touch!) of rubato. Most pianists who use rubato use far too much, and don't seem to see that a little rubato goes a very long way. But, these small issues aside, I would prefer this to many human performances I've heard of Scriabin - including a couple of big-name pianists!

[@null8295]

bullshit

[@koenraadspijker7776]

There's a horredous error at 3:15 in the left hand.. i think he plays d natural instead of d sharp... making the entire sharp 11 super dominant a spooky minor experience... very much possible, if only you wouldn't be playing the actual D sharp in the right hand movement... HORROR

[@koenraadspijker7776]

same thing at 3:27... oh the absolute HORROR.. i've played this piece in many concerts, these errors will make me flinch in my deepest dreams tonight

[@munkiechatchat]

synaestesia all over! :)

[@pianomanhere]

Listen to the Nemtin realization of Scriabin's "Mysterium: Prefatory Act."... imho it's the very essence of musical synaesthesia. I believe it's still somewhere on KZbin. Enjoy. 🌄 🏋🎹👬💪

[@11jupitercowboy8]

Now did you make this comment BEFORE you read the description where he explains how he recorded it?

[@fbh3872]

bravo meilleur que Richter !

[@mancomortijch]

The Great God Pan...

[@s1earle]

I have many more important tasks to hand than sending replies to fake realists - pls read so many of the comments on "good music" attesting to the fact that the public generally prefer 'memorable tunes' in their music; Scriabin composed much good music but like Czerny, volume brings a need to "weed out" the excesses...

what is the inquietante image at the end?

[@minjuncho4157]

6:22

[@RollaArtis]

??????!!!!! So what is your verdict on other works from this period by Debussy - or Stravinsky even? And what do you think of the contemporary cubist paintings by Picasso and Braque - are these memorable or also rubbish? You must have a very large dustbin.

[@ChannyLY]

what grade would you have reached when your able to play this ? sorry ive just started playing piano and just curious

[@danielklein2282]

this is metal

[@toothlesstoe]

Wrong.

[@s1earle]

Yes my dustbin (as you put it) is getting quite large - eg why put bricks into a piano before playing, or even score loud footstamping during a performance "for added musicality" - the pianists who play such rubbish incite listeners to arrive at the same verdict as me - listen objectively and if needed overlook by lining the 'dustbin'...ignore this music. Good and fine music is already appreciated by millions of subjective listeners,

[@istknu9342]

Неуклюжая заставка в конце не имеющая ничего со Скрябиным общего

[@allarmunumralla]

actually it does; Jean Delville created the title page for Prometheus op 60. www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2009/08/16/delville-scriabin-and-prometheus/

[@4hm3dimr4n]

Next time make a case as to why he's wrong instead of beating him over the head with irrelevant "artists".

[@davidpolkmusic]

i just can't imagine scriabin playing it so plainly...... like a computer....where's the push and pull? the purposefully misaligned notes? the fiery insane soul steeped in beautiful mysteriousness? it doesn't sound improvised.....

[@TheAwesomenessman123]

Sry bud, I only would use that shit for 4-Part Dictation ear training

[@Joeyboiification]

Getting so riled up over a trivial comment from a stranger seems pretty childish. Besides, who are you to criticise how another listens to music?

[@charlesdavis5802]

Who's cranking out this shi_ ? Scriabin in not a romantic; he's a mystic, a sound-mystic. He's not Chopin or Rachmaninov. Stop it right now! Don't play another note of Scriabin until you've studied the metaphysical relationships between color and sound and understand it to some degree. And remember, dynamics are all important to sound as is darkness is to light. PP means PP, not MP A three beat measure of silence is just that, a three beat measure of silence. Complete silence, no pedal. Debussy new that. Debussy too was a mystic but not a Russian one, obviously. If S. Richter couldn't play Scriabin right, even when he played all the notes right, what's going on here? When your dealing Scriabin, you're dealing with an entirely different sling of cat. Go play some Scott Joplin for a while. Red is red, not orange. Lavender is not purple with a little white in it. Please and thank you. CVD

[@ninjaassassin27]

It is pleasing to find someone else who understands that playing a composer is not just hitting notes and dynamics. Scathing, but befitting of this video which was created as a mastered MIDI track.

[@charlesdavis5802]

Thank you. I love my mystics… as difficult as they are! Sent with love. CVD

[@stasa.5865]

Can't say I liked the video either, but that was easily one of the most humorously pretentious comments I've read. Are you actually able to play any instrument or compose music, or is your main talent in "cranking out shi_"?

[@charlesdavis5802]

"Humorously pretentious," is that what you think about what I commented about R.'s playing of Scriabin? Personally, I think you're funny. And yes, I do play (all keyboards and yes I compose for the full orchestra. I work in LA. I specialize in organ music, and I don't mean Tico-Tico, although I learned to play that particular piece when I was around 19 years of age. And loved it. Still do. I do the Ethel Smith version. Ever heard of her? I'm now about 70 years old and still trying to keep my ears open. I'm the head organist at the Founder's MCC church in LA. And if you would care to, you might tune in at mccla.org around 9:00 Easter Sunday to hear one of my latest composition.

[@ninjaassassin27]

Charles Davis As an organist, pianist, and composer myself, it gives me strength to keep going when I read of others who do the same. This person is just a pretentious troll who likes to scathe strangers with comebacks that make them feel better about themselves. I'll be listening for your work!

[@Elzoliiziitha]

Quién es el solista?

[@AndrewHokanson]

es una computadora

[@FromtheMindofJake]

I think this is as far as I'll go into atonality. It's interesting, but ugly and soulless sometimes. This piece was very nice, though.

[@toothlesstoe]

This isn't atonal.

[@s1earle]

Great performance and thanks for the effort; however this music is rubbish akin to so much of late Scriabin - some pieces are OK but most lack memorable tunes.

[@davidpolkmusic]

there is nothing correct about this statement.....

[@sergio6357]

Nocturne?? LoL

[@tunabilgin4331]

Why MIDI??!!!

[@rachman1noff]

Too literal with the tempo.

[@toothlesstoe]

Then maybe composers should stop being so literal with their indications.

[@MuckyGhost]

is this an electric keyboard? yuck.