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Piano music and trios of Leonid Sabaneev ( 1881-1968 ) - Genuin cd's
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Bozo
Jan 9, 2016, 10:43:22 PM1/9/16
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Late Romantic, Scriabin-esque . Suggest you start with his impressive Op.20 Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano , a 2012 Genuin cd :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJWo4V8p7E&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4YCPHVLE2QSwvRUCIGQwN43&index=4
Jonathan Powell's new recording of some of the composer's solo piano works reviewed today on BBCR3 :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tw0p6
Powell's cd :
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018WT9C22?ie=UTF8&keywords=sabaneyev&qid=1452396097&ref_=sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&sr=1-1-catcorr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYn17JOt60 (Prelude Op.10,# 5, Hamelin live )
I enjoy Michael Schaefer's recording of the D'indy Piano Sonata, and this Genuin 2- cd set of early Sabaneev ( Sabaneyev) works , seems attractive as well , released Oct., 2015 ; I'm about 1/4 through :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acv-PylFJQw&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4bkq6pX8hoTRSQJxC0ZCut5&index=2
From Wiki :
" Leonid Sabaneyev was born in Moscow in 1881 and his musical studies were under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Zverev and Paul de Schlözer at the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated in mathematics and physics from Moscow University in 1908. He wrote some early works, such as incidental music to King Oedipus (1889), a Funeral March in Memory of Beethoven, two trios (including a Trio-Impromptu for violin, cello and piano, Op. 4), piano pieces (including a Piano Sonata, Op. 15 and songs.
He then made a special study of Alexander Scriabin, and became an authority on that composer (see synthetic chord). His first book on Scriabin was published in 1916. In addition to his own original works, he transcribed Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire for 2 pianos.He founded the Moscow Institute of Musicology. He was both a conservative and a progressive; his ideas included a scale comprising 53 notes and hoped to create a "Laboratory of the Exact Science of Music".
Sabaneyev famously embarrassed himself in 1915 by publishing a scathing review of the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Scythian Suite - a performance that had actually been canceled at the last minute. This prompted a response from Prokofiev stating that the supposed performance must have been a product of Sabaneyev's imagination, as the only copy of the score was in the composer's hands and thus the critic had not even been able to see it. However, later Prokofiev said that Sabaneyev had information about the Suite from his friends who had already heard the Suite and he probably wouldn't have changed a word in his review even if he had heard it in concert.[citation needed]
Sabaneyev left Russia in 1926, after publishing Scriabin (1916, 2/1923), History of Russian Music (1924), The General History of Music (1925), and Music After October (on post-revolution music in Russia). History of Russian Music was translated into German (1926) and received very positive reviews from critics such as Maurice Cauchie. In his later years he lived in Paris, London, the United States, and Nice, where he is buried. His musicological works from this period include Modern Russian Composers (1927), a monograph on Taneyev (1930), and Music for the Films (1935). His students in Paris included the Swedish composers Dag Wirén and Gösta Nystroem.
His later musical works included a ballet, a symphonic poem, and the oratorio The Revelation of St John (1940). He also wrote Variations on a Theme of Scriabin, for unknown forces.
He also had several science works on mathematics and zoology.
He died in Cap d'Antibes, France in 1968."
From a respected Amazon reviewer :
" Leonid Sabaneyev (1881-1968) is remembered chiefly for his musicology and writings on Scriabin, while his music is ignored in every precinct. Marc-Andre Hamelin favored one of his preludes as an encore, but that's about all the attention Sabaneyev has received. Why? Because Sabaneyev was erased from music history by the Soviet authorities. He was persona non grata like Lourie, Mosolov, and Roslavets, and so many other radicals and modernists guilty of "formalism." If it weren't for the repressive Soviet establishment, their music would be, if not in the standard repertoire, at least regarded in the second tier. I was prostrate with amazement at Sabaneyev's Sonata for violin, cello, and piano (1924) released on Genuin a few years ago. I believe it is one of the best piano trios of the 20th century. Now Michael Schafer promises to record the complete piano music of Sabaneyev across three volumes. This first one is a triumph: a 2-CD set of some of the most emotionally intense and ravishing Scriabinesque piano music I've heard since Feinberg.
Sabaneyev refused to have his music compared to Scriabin's. In lieu of biographical and analytical liner notes, Genuin reproduces an article by Sabaneyev which sets out to dismantle the idea that his music shares an affinity with Scriabin's. Try as he might, his arguments--for all their intellectual force--will not persuade many of us. It is true that Sabaneyev's early piano works borrow more from Liszt, Wagner, and the general milieu of the Russian Silver Age, but even then, the ghost of middle Scriabin is present. From opus 10 onwards, Sabaneyev has fully assimilated Scriabin's late harmonic language, gestures, languid chromaticism, and synthetic chords. What does distinguish his work is the underlying pessimism and preoccupation with tragedy. There are certainly great moments of the ecstatic and heightened mystical expression of Scriabin. But for the most part, Sabaneyev is world-weary, anxious, defiant, and impassioned. This is sober hyper-Romantic music, lacking sentimentality and stressing instead the epic, calamitous, and heroic. His textures are lush; his piano writing technically demanding and ferocious, spanning the entire keyboard in a heartbeat. And Sabaneyev has a talent for writing rich melodic ideas. These miniatures aren't stale and ordinary imitations: every single one is packed with interesting ideas and a passionate voice. I've listened to both discs at least ten times and haven't gotten tired of these pieces.
Bottom line: If you like Scriabin, this recording is a must-own. Anyone who even knows what I'm talking about when I mention Feinberg, Roslavets, Lourie, Myaskovsky, Obukhov, and Krein should immediately procure this recording. Sabaneyev is the last to get his due as one of the major composers of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s. His grandiose and gorgeous piano music deserves your attention; it is played with white-hot passion and technical command by Michael Schafer, the best champion of this music short of Jonathan Powell. "
I would not be as extravagant in praise, but these are worthy works ; I am considering purchases.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJWo4V8p7E&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4YCPHVLE2QSwvRUCIGQwN43&index=4
Jonathan Powell's new recording of some of the composer's solo piano works reviewed today on BBCR3 :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tw0p6
Powell's cd :
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018WT9C22?ie=UTF8&keywords=sabaneyev&qid=1452396097&ref_=sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&sr=1-1-catcorr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYn17JOt60 (Prelude Op.10,# 5, Hamelin live )
I enjoy Michael Schaefer's recording of the D'indy Piano Sonata, and this Genuin 2- cd set of early Sabaneev ( Sabaneyev) works , seems attractive as well , released Oct., 2015 ; I'm about 1/4 through :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acv-PylFJQw&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4bkq6pX8hoTRSQJxC0ZCut5&index=2
From Wiki :
" Leonid Sabaneyev was born in Moscow in 1881 and his musical studies were under Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Zverev and Paul de Schlözer at the Moscow Conservatory. He graduated in mathematics and physics from Moscow University in 1908. He wrote some early works, such as incidental music to King Oedipus (1889), a Funeral March in Memory of Beethoven, two trios (including a Trio-Impromptu for violin, cello and piano, Op. 4), piano pieces (including a Piano Sonata, Op. 15 and songs.
He then made a special study of Alexander Scriabin, and became an authority on that composer (see synthetic chord). His first book on Scriabin was published in 1916. In addition to his own original works, he transcribed Scriabin's Prometheus: The Poem of Fire for 2 pianos.He founded the Moscow Institute of Musicology. He was both a conservative and a progressive; his ideas included a scale comprising 53 notes and hoped to create a "Laboratory of the Exact Science of Music".
Sabaneyev famously embarrassed himself in 1915 by publishing a scathing review of the premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's Scythian Suite - a performance that had actually been canceled at the last minute. This prompted a response from Prokofiev stating that the supposed performance must have been a product of Sabaneyev's imagination, as the only copy of the score was in the composer's hands and thus the critic had not even been able to see it. However, later Prokofiev said that Sabaneyev had information about the Suite from his friends who had already heard the Suite and he probably wouldn't have changed a word in his review even if he had heard it in concert.[citation needed]
Sabaneyev left Russia in 1926, after publishing Scriabin (1916, 2/1923), History of Russian Music (1924), The General History of Music (1925), and Music After October (on post-revolution music in Russia). History of Russian Music was translated into German (1926) and received very positive reviews from critics such as Maurice Cauchie. In his later years he lived in Paris, London, the United States, and Nice, where he is buried. His musicological works from this period include Modern Russian Composers (1927), a monograph on Taneyev (1930), and Music for the Films (1935). His students in Paris included the Swedish composers Dag Wirén and Gösta Nystroem.
His later musical works included a ballet, a symphonic poem, and the oratorio The Revelation of St John (1940). He also wrote Variations on a Theme of Scriabin, for unknown forces.
He also had several science works on mathematics and zoology.
He died in Cap d'Antibes, France in 1968."
From a respected Amazon reviewer :
" Leonid Sabaneyev (1881-1968) is remembered chiefly for his musicology and writings on Scriabin, while his music is ignored in every precinct. Marc-Andre Hamelin favored one of his preludes as an encore, but that's about all the attention Sabaneyev has received. Why? Because Sabaneyev was erased from music history by the Soviet authorities. He was persona non grata like Lourie, Mosolov, and Roslavets, and so many other radicals and modernists guilty of "formalism." If it weren't for the repressive Soviet establishment, their music would be, if not in the standard repertoire, at least regarded in the second tier. I was prostrate with amazement at Sabaneyev's Sonata for violin, cello, and piano (1924) released on Genuin a few years ago. I believe it is one of the best piano trios of the 20th century. Now Michael Schafer promises to record the complete piano music of Sabaneyev across three volumes. This first one is a triumph: a 2-CD set of some of the most emotionally intense and ravishing Scriabinesque piano music I've heard since Feinberg.
Sabaneyev refused to have his music compared to Scriabin's. In lieu of biographical and analytical liner notes, Genuin reproduces an article by Sabaneyev which sets out to dismantle the idea that his music shares an affinity with Scriabin's. Try as he might, his arguments--for all their intellectual force--will not persuade many of us. It is true that Sabaneyev's early piano works borrow more from Liszt, Wagner, and the general milieu of the Russian Silver Age, but even then, the ghost of middle Scriabin is present. From opus 10 onwards, Sabaneyev has fully assimilated Scriabin's late harmonic language, gestures, languid chromaticism, and synthetic chords. What does distinguish his work is the underlying pessimism and preoccupation with tragedy. There are certainly great moments of the ecstatic and heightened mystical expression of Scriabin. But for the most part, Sabaneyev is world-weary, anxious, defiant, and impassioned. This is sober hyper-Romantic music, lacking sentimentality and stressing instead the epic, calamitous, and heroic. His textures are lush; his piano writing technically demanding and ferocious, spanning the entire keyboard in a heartbeat. And Sabaneyev has a talent for writing rich melodic ideas. These miniatures aren't stale and ordinary imitations: every single one is packed with interesting ideas and a passionate voice. I've listened to both discs at least ten times and haven't gotten tired of these pieces.
Bottom line: If you like Scriabin, this recording is a must-own. Anyone who even knows what I'm talking about when I mention Feinberg, Roslavets, Lourie, Myaskovsky, Obukhov, and Krein should immediately procure this recording. Sabaneyev is the last to get his due as one of the major composers of the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s. His grandiose and gorgeous piano music deserves your attention; it is played with white-hot passion and technical command by Michael Schafer, the best champion of this music short of Jonathan Powell. "
I would not be as extravagant in praise, but these are worthy works ; I am considering purchases.
Bozo
Jan 10, 2016, 11:45:43 AM1/10/16
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>On Saturday, January 9, 2016 at 9:43:22 PM UTC-6, Bozo wrote:
> Late Romantic, Scriabin-esque .
Sabaneev's Piano Sonata, Op.15 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODI-Dj-AfLs
> Late Romantic, Scriabin-esque .
Sabaneev's Piano Sonata, Op.15 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODI-Dj-AfLs
Bozo
Jan 10, 2016, 6:29:47 PM1/10/16
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Sabaneev's sweeping Op.4 Trio-Impromptu ; his Op.20 Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano linked earlier in this thread :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFqBVnVJyCU&index=2&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4YCPHVLE2QSwvRUCIGQwN43
My decision would be to first acquire the Genuine cd of the piano trios rather than the solo piano works.
Bozo
Jan 27, 2016, 8:14:57 AM1/27/16
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>On Sunday, January 10, 2016 at 5:29:47 PM UTC-6, Bozo wrote:
> Sabaneev's sweeping Op.4 Trio-Impromptu ; his Op.20 Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano linked earlier in >this thread :
Acquired the Trios at Presto Classical ; good deal , great works.
> Sabaneev's sweeping Op.4 Trio-Impromptu ; his Op.20 Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano linked earlier in >this thread :
P
Jan 27, 2016, 9:32:37 AM1/27/16
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> Late Romantic, Scriabin-esque . Suggest you start with his impressive Op.20 Sonata for Violin, Cello and Piano , a 2012 Genuin cd :
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJWo4V8p7E&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4YCPHVLE2QSwvRUCIGQwN43&index=4
> Jonathan Powell's new recording of some of the composer's solo piano works reviewed today on BBCR3 :
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tw0p6
> Powell's cd :
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018WT9C22?ie=UTF8&keywords=sabaneyev&qid=1452396097&ref_=sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&sr=1-1-catcorr
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYn17JOt60 (Prelude Op.10,# 5, Hamelin live )
> I enjoy Michael Schaefer's recording of the D'indy Piano Sonata, and this Genuin 2- cd set of early Sabaneev ( Sabaneyev) works , seems attractive as well , released Oct., 2015 ; I'm about 1/4 through :
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acv-PylFJQw&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4bkq6pX8hoTRSQJxC0ZCut5&index=2
Found three Sabaneyev albums on Spotify:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUJWo4V8p7E&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4YCPHVLE2QSwvRUCIGQwN43&index=4
> Jonathan Powell's new recording of some of the composer's solo piano works reviewed today on BBCR3 :
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06tw0p6
> Powell's cd :
> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018WT9C22?ie=UTF8&keywords=sabaneyev&qid=1452396097&ref_=sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&sr=1-1-catcorr
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewYn17JOt60 (Prelude Op.10,# 5, Hamelin live )
> I enjoy Michael Schaefer's recording of the D'indy Piano Sonata, and this Genuin 2- cd set of early Sabaneev ( Sabaneyev) works , seems attractive as well , released Oct., 2015 ; I'm about 1/4 through :
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acv-PylFJQw&list=PLUSRfoOcUe4bkq6pX8hoTRSQJxC0ZCut5&index=2
- Sabaneyev: Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1 (Jonathan Powell)
- Sabaneev: Piano Trios (Michael Schafer, piano; Ilona Thenh-Berg, violin; Wen-Sinh Yang, cello)
- Sabaneev: The Complete Works for Piano, Vol. 1 (Michael Schafer)
Will give a listen!
-P
Bozo
Jan 27, 2016, 2:51:26 PM1/27/16
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>On Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at 8:32:37 AM UTC-6, P wrote:
>Will give a listen!
Hope you enjoy. I thought the Trios the highlight, and I purchased the Genuin cd of the Trios thru Presto Classics' download.
>Will give a listen!
Hope you enjoy. I thought the Trios the highlight, and I purchased the Genuin cd of the Trios thru Presto Classics' download.
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