Most difficult Scriabin piece!?

[infectedmushroom]

Wich Scriabin piece is, in your opinion, the most difficult one?




For me it's Etude Op. 42 No. 5

[jre58591]

sonata no 8 is up there. so is etude op 42 no 5. btw, you might want to move this to that poll section.

[jakev2.0]

I tried sight reading the climax of the Fantasy...didn't work out so well.

[presto agitato]

All of them

[hodi]

all of the sonatas are very difficult, espeially the last 5.

[kreso]

all of the sonatas are very difficult, espeially the last 5.

I agree for Sonata #5. Richter once said-Scriabin's 5th Sonata is one of the pieces which you have to practice and practice wholle your life...

[mikey6]

The op.62 etudes or the 7th sonata

[soliloquy]

I agree for Sonata #5. Richter once said-Scriabin's 5th Sonata is one of the pieces which you have to practice and practice wholle your life...

Sonata No. 5 is not one of the last five sonatas lol.  Those would be 6/7/8/9/10, yes?


Hardest pieces are Poeme "Vers la Flamme" Op. 72, Sonata No. 8, Sonata No. 7, Sonata No. 10 and Etudes Op. 65, in the order.  Preludes Op. 74 are weird too.

[klick]

Doesn't Scriabin have a ridiculous Nocturne for left hand?

Klick

[nanabush]

Vers la flamme is one of his most difficult pieces? 

[quantum]

There is stuff in No 8 that looks way scarier than Vers la Flamme. 


Anyways where does the concerto fit in difficulty?  I haven't yet had a chance to hear it or see the score. 

[jre58591]

the concerto is an earlier piece, op 20 to be exact. id say it would fit in the area of the op 8 etudes, difficulty-wise. however, it can be a bit hard interpretatively. it is very dramatic and emotional and requires a passionate performer. it wouldnt qualify as one of his hardest pieces though. i dont think prometheus would either, for that matter.

[ibbar]

In general, the sonatas are Scriabin's most difficult pieces.  There are some etudes with roughly equivalent technical requirements, but they lack comparable difficulties in architecture, length, etc.  Almost everyone I've spoken to who's played it has agreed that the eighth sonata is the hardest, although the seventh is often cited in the same breath.

[nanabush]

Are his sonatas in a whole different range than other pieces like Liszt/Rach etudes, Chopin Sonatas, Gaspard etc..  or about there?

[tompilk]

There is stuff in No 8 that looks way scarier than Vers la Flamme. 


Anyways where does the concerto fit in difficulty?  I haven't yet had a chance to hear it or see the score. 

its a wonderful piece, but does not seem that difficult technically - not many virtuosic fireworks but gorgeous melodies...
tom

[moi_not_toi]

I've only played one piece by him (memorising as we speak), and from inference, I'd say ALL his music is really hard: technically, sometimes, but ALWAYS as far as interpretation goes.

Poeme in D Op. 32 (the one I'm playing) nearly took me a month to figure out where the melody lay and how to silence the bass (which nearly killed me because I liked it more than the melody!)

[phil13]

Doesn't Scriabin have a ridiculous Nocturne for left hand?

Klick

Yeah, and a much less difficult LH Prelude to go with it. It's hard, but not on the same level as some of the others mentioned.

In general, the sonatas are Scriabin's most difficult pieces. There are some etudes with roughly equivalent technical requirements, but they lack comparable difficulties in architecture, length, etc. Almost everyone I've spoken to who's played it has agreed that the eighth sonata is the hardest, although the seventh is often cited in the same breath.

I completely agree. The etudes can be monsters, but I don't think there's one that lasts over 4 minutes or changes from the classic A-B-A form.

Phil

[ahinton]

I do so hate these polls, but if I were to be asked at gunpoint to select one piece in this one, it would have to be Sonata No. 8. Like No. 10, the hypertense febrile helter-skelter of fragments that occurs towards its end is monstrously hard to control, let alone render meaningful and the oft-repeated (in different guises) passage in fourths is also notoriously tricky to bring off every time without fail - and these are just two examples of what makes that piece a real challenge, even by Skryabin's exalted standards.

Best,

Alistair

[steinwaymodeld]

Wich Scriabin piece is, in your opinion, the most difficult one?




For me it's Etude Op. 42 No. 5

i performed 42/5, i can assure u, except the 2nd page (which is a B to play well, the polyphonic nature of this part is very weird, the reconfiguration demand on the 2,3 fingers is unheard of in other pieces, but it is doable) it's not as bad as it looks.

but on the other hand, the late scriabin sonata....

are just pure nutcases

i wish one day i can perform a perfect scriabin 5th sonata, then i can just die right on stage.

[fyrexia]

well in my opinion is dificult to select i played all scriabin pieces for piano.
The concerto Op.20 in my opinion is not dificult. more dificults are sonata no.7.
The etude Op.65 No.1  and well a bit must be fantasy.
Cheers