rss feedScriabin plays his own Poem, op.32, no.1
posted by Roger Bourland on 2008.12.20, under BourlanDiaries
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This a a piece I fell in love with after I heard Ruth Laredo play it. I took it to my piano teacher (Carroll Chilton) who said it was beyond my ability. I said I didn’t care, he said “you ARE stubborn, ok, try it.” And I learned to play it. All the luscious inner voices and cross rhythms were intoxicating.
I stumbled across a recording of Scriabin playing it himself. The recording is scratchy, and at best a document, but the performance IS interesting.
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This is from a 1910 piano roll. It’s been issued on CD several times, along with his half-dozen others.
Regards,
Eric Grunin