jupiter is feminine, mars is muscular
True, but during the drop Jupiter is the universe, your life flashing before your eyes, gratitude.
Kingly taste
classic enjoyer spotted, cares about who performed the piece. mirin
this performance was dogshit tho. i found a good performance a while ago, don't know where i saved it. it has a very hard trumpet part that only few experts in the world can perform.
Think of it as the darker, more fiery counterpart to the Poem of Ecstasy.
What's your favorite recording of the Poem of Ecstasy? Mine is the well-known recording by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy. It's one of the shortest and faster recordings, and I like it this way. Pierre Boulez's version is too slow and doesn't respect the score imo, I don't get why it is the most popular recording.
I think I prefer the Ashkenazy/BRSO rendition as well. I also think that many listeners think that the Boulez version of Prometheus (the video I linked) is also too slow for their liking, preferring Valery Gergiev's rendition instead.
people dont realize how much this matters for classical music
Yeah. Apparently it took Alexander Nemtin 28 years to complete the Mysterium, which is insane considering how it is only around 3 hours in duration, not 168 hours long or something like that.
Yeah and Nemtin also managed to sneak in the 8th sonata in it, which works very well imo. Mogs me hard if you have actually played the opus 74 preludes before. The 5th prelude, which is the very last prelude of the opus 74 set is my favorite of the set. I do plan on learning it soon. Right now, I am learning the opus 9 nocturne and the opus 11 no. 14 prelude in E-flat minor, both these pieces are highly fun to play and listen to. Do you like Scriabin's early works more or his late works more? I think I prefer the early and middle period works a little more than the late works, but the late works are real innovative masterpieces which I highly enjoy listening to.
Damn you know so much more about music and about Scriabin than me. Are you a professional who studied or is studying music or something? I haven't looked into the topic of quartal harmony yet, but I will soon to get a better understanding of it. My theory is still pretty weak, I'm still learning about diminished chords and polyrhythms and how to use them because I want to be a composer.
She had a heart attack? No way that's crazy srs. Where did you read this? Speaking of favorite composers, who are your top 10 favorites? My favorite composer is Liszt. Then after Liszt, it is Scriabin in second place, Chopin in third place, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Ravel, Schumann, Medtner and Brahms.
I already know about Roslavets didn't expect you to know about him ngl. His first sonata is so good, the harmonic language in it is like an even more darker and psychotic one compared to Scriabin. Roslavets' wife tried to hide away his manuscripts from the USSR officials iirc after his death. I listened to the Grosse Fugue once and I wasn't moved tbh. There are a lot of mixed opinions in the classical music community about this piece. I'll give it a listen again though.
Yeah, it's balls. Not to mention that he didn't even live to see its premiere jfl.
Oh, I didn't know he snuck in the 8th sonata, I guess I haven't listened to the whole thing closely enough.
I'm still in high school but I'd say I'm decently versed in music theory. I've written two research essays on music theory already, including one on free jazz. Quartal harmony is just the use of chords, be them blocked or broken, in intervals of perfect fourths (e.g., C - F - Bb). I still have a long way to go in that field though, so don't feel left behind or anything like that.
I read it on Wikipedia lol, so take with that what you will.
Yeah, the story of Roslavets was a tragic one. Thankfully he's gaining a renaissance today.
Yeah. You'll hear the descending fourths in from the 8th sonata in the first movement, titled as 'Universe'.
Brutal. It's sad to hear because I saw the score and even a synthesia video of this piece and I thought it was going to be easy. Almost everything Scriabin wrote is notoriously difficult. I was going to talk about the voicings as well, did you get them right? I listened to Stanislav Neuhaus play it, his interpretation is my favorite, I want to play this prelude like him.
I think you meant to say Scriabin's right hand was the weaker one. He injured his right hand playing Liszt's music in his youth, which is why he wrote the nocturne for the left hand alone. And this explains why the left hand passages in his music are so difficult.
Interesting, so is Eb the next note in the sequence?
Cool list. Scriabin, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, Beethoven, Debussy and Ravel... I expected these composers to be in your list. But Stockhausen and Penderecki... I didn't expect. Do you like the 2nd Viennese school's music? I struggle to enjoy it.
