Alexander Scriabin - Prelude & Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op. 9
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2024
- - Composer: Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (6 January 1872 -- 27 April 1915)
- Performer: Grigori Sokolov
- Year of recording: 2007 (live)
Prelude and Nocturne for the left hand, Op. 9, written in 1894.
00:00 - Prelude
02:44 - Nocturne
While studying at the Moscow Conservatory, Scriabin strained his right hand severely while learning Liszt's Don Juan Fantasy and Balakirev's Islamey. This resulted in two compositions for left hand alone, Prelude and Nocturne Op. 9. Both these pieces enjoyed a minor vogue in the middle twentieth century, but are generally and unfairly neglected today.
- 1. Prelude in C#-: Some critics have surmised that the Op. 9 pieces and the composer's subsequent tendency in some piano works to focus less on the role of the right hand might have been related to the injury. Whatever accounted for Scriabin's decision to write this piece for the left hand alone is still a matter for conjecture, but the Prelude's artistic worth generates no controversy. While it exhibits the influence of Chopin-hardly a surprising quality in early Scriabin-it is thematically attractive and so well-crafted in its writing that the listener will hardly notice the idleness of the other hand. Chopin's voice can be heard in the forlorn beauty of the main theme, a short-breathed creation that dominates the entire three-minute length of the piece in one guise or another. The mood is sad and gentle at the outset, but soon turns angry and intense, only to yield back to the quieter bereavement of the opening. A last struggle to rise up again precedes the hushed, gloomy ending.
- 2. Nocturne in Db: In the admittedly narrow genre of solo piano works for left hand, this is one of the more popular pieces. It is a lush, Romantic composition, Scriabin not yet divulging the mystical character prominent in most of his later works. While this piece exhibits the influence of Chopin, it does not divulge the generally darker manner of his nocturnes. It is full of passion and yearning, full of the kind of Romantic outpourings that would permeate so much of the keyboard output of Scriabin's friend Rachmaninov. The work opens with a lovely long-breathed theme, whose range spans most of the keyboard. Harmonies, mostly played in the bass and middle registers, become part of the thematic flow, not least because only one hand is playing the notes. The theme's arched contour favors its descending half until the final ecstatic phrase in the upper register. The stormy middle section is comprised of a passionate variant of the melody and is followed by a return of the theme in its original guise. A final, ecstatic rendering of it ensues, sending the music into a sort of playful, gleeful tailspin before the quiet close. 
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I am a pianist who recently injured my right hand so looks like I will working on this playing these beauties...
Feona Lee Jones I feel for you. I get carpal tunnel and it is not fun.
so worthwhile- you are lucky- I used to play this until I broke my left wrist- there is no music written for right hand alone- it does not work- and now I do not have the strength- I just love this music
@@darklady2002 There's a small handful of right hand solo pieces but none of it accessible without a godlike technique
Same, I feel ya
I broke my right middle finger last week. It really sucks but this piece has been a lot of fun for me.
The prelude has such a lamenting, aching melody. It almost makes the picardy third at the end seem like a “fake” happy ending. The sadness doesn’t feel resolved. I wish that I could explain this feeling that I have about this piece better.
@@iandimundo5172 i v
Yea me too. I call it bittersweet feel. And its such a typical Scriabin))
Always nice to discover more reasons to love Scriabin.
The Prelude is honestly amazing. So little motifs but so much colours and moods
Those with perfect pitch reveal yourself! :O
haha, i don't have perfect pitch, but i realized it was a bit flat. Tonal memory i guess
Lol I was thinking playing with the music realizing that it was around 3/4 steps flat 🙉
@@authenticmusic4815 Same, my piano at home's flat, and that's what I'm used to.
I don’t have perfect pitch but I was playing my piano at the same time and WTF is wrong with my piano?!?! And am I reading a fake score? 😂
Me!
Such rich and wonderful music. And what a discovery to hear it played by Sokolov! Thanks for posting!
Красивая прелюдия. Прекрасное исполнение, лирический шедевр.
Феноменально и нет слов ! БРАВО !
Sokolov joue admirablement (quel toucher !) ces deux merveilleuses pièces, en leur donnant une couleur onirique rarement entendue.
Beautiful and sensible interpretation, rich touch and nice agogic.
THANK YOU!!..
Extremamente profundo e belo. Incomparável.
Спасибо
I'm not the biggest fan of Sokolov but these two pieces were played magnificiently. I love the nocturne for the left hand, the final part of it is just amazing to hear. Wonderful.
Alekszandr Szkrjabin:Prelűd és Nöktürn bal kézre Op.9
1.Prelűd 00:10
2.Noktürn 02:44
Grigorij Sokolov-zongora
Köszönöm az értékelést
This song for left hand sounds like other songs played with both hands. All four singing voices are present. Just amazing. New subscriber here. 💕
i appreciate the random blues lick at around 5:00
I always loved the smell of this piece.
Isso é vida, alma e espirito.
I’d have trouble playing this with BOTH my hands
lmao
i have played this before.this is not difficult.if put it to simple,only need level of 740 needed
@@Cosimo-composer what kind of levelling system is that?
@@j2bigd590 Czerny op.740,normal level
AHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Fantástico me he lesionado la mano derecha y estoy estudiando estas obras.
why is it a semitone flat?
Not sure, I guess it's an artifact from the recording, made by someone in the audience.
I would presume somebody sped it down, but then it still sounds good lol!
Ganja Mozart Yes. I have perfect pitch and I am pretty sure it is a semitone flat
Chelsea lol i was trying to play along and ofcourse this happens lol
Ganja Mozart I'm pretty sure its tuned to 432 hz
22 year Scriabin was.. sad.
you're right! Amazing.. Similar to Ravel's piano concerto for the left hand.
Yes! Happy that you like it :)
Except this is music, while ravel's is not.
@@Whatismusic123 never thought in my life that I'd see Ravel haters out there
@@joeyhardin5903 why? He's completely incompetent
@@Whatismusic123You are a joke
This sounds like Chopin
A bit like Chopin op 28 no 4
scottbos68 It seems like op.25 no.7.
the prelude sounds quite silimlar to LOVE by nat king cole
Intense grief followed by languid foreplay... Scriabin is, to me at least, the Third Musketeer to Beethoven and Chopin, with perhaps, Charles Ives as their D'Artagnan.
Faulkner....very clever, dear acolyte of our (?) ....
Why is this sounding a whole step lower than written?
sounds like baroque tuning
1:10 that is how you create a transition
Re-echoes the Do😢
For those without perfect pitch, compare to this recording and be blown away by the difference... ruclips.net/video/a6rfb6gNEyE/видео.html
Sounds similar to Chopin's Etude 25/7.
The key doesn't sound right. Is this a digitized LP recording spun at a wrong rpm?
This isn't flat its altered
a half step flat!
Is he playing this with one hand??
yes
He'd get a lot of flak if he played two pieces intended for left hand only with both hands. He's too good a pianist to have to resort to such tactics anyway. However, in preparing this piece for performance, I highly recommend learning the melodic line with the right hand as a way of 'teaching' your left hand (if it's the non-dominant hand) how to shape the melody. In fact, that's something I recommend for any pianist that struggles with left hand passagework. We are often more "in tune" with our right hand, since it tends to carry the melodic workload, so it's often good to let that hand explore the left hand passagework. You'd be amazed what you can uncover by doing that a few times.
I don't think is was Scriabin, but some composer wrote some music for a pianist who lost his right hand, maybe after Scriabin died. I KNOW that happened, but I don't think Scriabin wrote that music. Someone who knows, please help.
@@mikekevitt1322 Is the composer Ravel? He wrote a left hand concerto for a pianist who had lost his right hand during the WWI.
However, I think this work (Op.9) is probably composed by Scriabin.
@@grahamthomason8796 The funny thing is that Prokofiev and Ravel wrote their left-hand concerto for the request from same pianist.
BTW, Ravel's concerto is much famous, and it is an interesting piece you should check it out.
I wonder if this is what inspired Godowsky to write for the left hand?
+scottbos68 Yes, that could be possible. I find these pieces far more musical than any LH piece Godowsky ever wrote though :)
It's really difficult to imagine all this music coming from only one hand.
I mean - maybe but there is so many composers how have written before this pieces fo the lh alone so doubtfull.
@@ziegunerweiser Yes, your right. I am listening to this for an essay homework and it is soooooooo hard to imagine... Good thing I have the sheet music in this video.
The Prelude is in c#, not C#.
Same thing
Thisis possible with one hand? Doesnt look that easy with teo hands lol
ピッチが…
ピッチはこれで全然問題ないですよ(*⃙⃘ˊ꒳ˋ*⃙)
聴く限り19世紀辺りのピアノを使用していると思うで、これが古風な音色何だな〜って思って貰って問題ないと思いますw
is it in lower key?
+Paolo Rico Lacaba No I think something happened to the recording, so it sounds like he isn't playing at the correct pitch.
+olla-vogala oh I see. I appreciate your reply. Thanks for sharing this vid. :)
Paolo Rico Lacaba I think its tuned to 432 hz
semitone flat? oh, this nocturne is a C key
A schiabriiiin.... Ma chi seiiii!!!
though the performance is good, semitone flat... really disappointed.
This is not Sokolov.
Listening to the nocturne makes me so anxious. It's a nocturne for crying out loud. Why does he pound as though it's some concert etude? I can't find a good enough recording of this piece, where the pianist understands it well enough to play. Each recording I've found has a pianist who is technically qualified, but does not speak music well enough to play it. My thoughts and my opinion though.
You're delusional, and blame it on the performer.
piano needs tuning
Don’t believe it’s Sokolov
This is impossible to play with just one hand.
It is possible
Nocturne for left hand....
But cant play RH lol. Fuck tenths
Horrible interpretation. He knows how to mash the entire time.
Such rich and wonderful music. And what a discovery to hear it played by Sokolov! Thanks for posting!