small community orch near where i grew up (but shares some players with San Francisco Symph so not bad) wants to inv me to play da SCRIB CONCERTO at end of diz calendar year
nice surprise, always wanted to learn/perf diz piece, played thru it hundreds of times but never really learned/practiced if u know what im sayin
but i totally lied and said I already know it well hahah TIME TO HIT THE KEYZ
unfortunately gig will also be within a few weeks of some gigs at unis playing all this crazy noteclusterfuck contemp music for piano and electronics so prax time will be limited, but ok, one hiztorical concerto is totally doable
there is an interesting article on how da PLATE made his own transcription (which should be published soon) which is basically a simplification of what SCRIB himself wrote… the piano part is actually insanely hard, sometimes almost unrealistically so, and it turns out SCRIB himself played simplified versions of these passages hahah
gonna try to play exactly whats written tho lets see how it goes
Twas written by a young Zcrib and maybe a tad inexperienced in da orchestration that can be quite frustratingly dominating, so that some 88 parts get lost - I’ve witnessed that happening when twas played by a very good pianist in a hall dat is famous for its acousdicks. Anyway enjoy!
yeah it was the first time he wrote for orchestra as a professional; i’m sure he just did academic exercises before that (gotta go back to my biographies…) i mean look at the difference in orchestration skill between the concerto and Prometheus, which is at the very least concertante… but then again the aesthetic is majorly different too…
and to be clear, the orchestra-louder-than-piano-problem isn’t distinct only 2 da SCRIB or young inexperienced composers only, it’s a problem of the large modern orchestra in general, I mean look at some of the loud passages in the Rach concertos where you can’t hear any of the nuanced sheeyat in the solo part unless you have a really careful conductor tellin everyone to stfu
To be quite honest, I don’t really know this work at all. Deniz Kozhukin will be perfoming it in Oslo on 12 March of this year (Vasily Petrenko as conductor). I will familiarize myself with it before that event
The Feinberg and H. Neuhaus have always been my favorites, with Solomon a close third place… Once I totally know the piece, I’ll hit you up for one or two of these to see if I need the shock of another interp to give me any last briliant ideas thanks for this!
I spent the last 6 months getting deeply acquainted with the Scriabin concerto and all the recs. I find the Gerstein rec to be the most satisfying overall (playing+sound quality). However, I’ve posted it several times and nobody ever comments about it, so I’m probably just wrong.
Feinberg is great, as is live Ashkenazy. Ugorski is decent, and Trifonov is not good.