Hi David:

I enjoyed your performance of this wonderful Prelude. I particularly liked your pacing from 12 bars before the end of the piece until the last bar.

A Scriabin prelude, how come?
Just kidding.
I was very tempted to hear your view of this marvellous piece, David. You drive masterfully. No doubt there. More Scriabin to follow, I suppose?

Hi David,

Thanks for listening and commenting. And for the compliment on my playing too.

I agree with you that this prelude is wonderful indeed--perhaps even one of Scriabin's best. This lament exudes so much sorrow and despair. I'm so glad you liked my approach leading to the codetta. Seldom do I feel the need to count in a piece, but in that part of this prelude I counted ever measure! The piece is in 9/8, so I wanted to be sure that I wasn't early or late in the execution of that thin but poignant and haunting melodic line. In the past, I've heard a couple of pianists rush through that section without even realizing that they had departed from the tempo. I think it would be easy to underestimate this piece.

Again, I'm glad you enjoyed listening!

David

Hi Pantelis,

I'm so glad you enjoyed my playing of this piece. It's quite intense in its own way. Here on Page 1 at the moment I have posted four Scriabin preludes. I'm now working up a character piece and might do an etude as well. Following that, there's a Glazunov piece I'd like to do. So maybe some more work in the Scriabin literature, but then I'd want to move on--but I could return to Scriabin in the future, of course.

Thanks for listening!

David