Pedalling Scriabin's Op 8-12

[presto agitato]

Hello,
Do I need to use th pedal in this piece every bar?
At the mddle of every bar??

Thanks!!

[49410enrique]

short answer? yes. and yes.

you'll have to just really listen and make musical decision on how much blending and bleeding over of sounds you want and will tolerate, that is, even though it is 'earlier' scriabin, he has some wonderful juicy and expressive dissonances built into this piece all over the place, it would be a shame to constantly wipe them clean or not them float around and add to the harmonic and emotional tension. the piece oozes romanticism. good luck and be patient with it. i've been living with the blasted thing since Christmas and am just now going to start a few piano lessons on it for a tentaive August performance of it.


don't be afraid of exerimenting with it. our charge with these often played works is in staying true to the style and understood or percieved intent of the composer while trying to say 'something new' as performing artist.

[pianopenny]

I have played the Etude for as long as I chould remember and I always experimented during my performances. That's why when I look back at the recordings, they all sound different. Over the years, I came up with the most perfect sollution for the pedal (to me it was always a problem)
I would suggest you try pedalling at the beggining of the bar on the first triplet, and then lift the pedal "half way" and press it again for the second triplet in the bar. That way, you hear the big base octave in the left hand, and don't get an overall smudge. No one likes smudges...  Good luck!! 

[danhuyle]

To change harmony is one.

The start of it in the first 16 bars, I pedal on beats 1 & 3 if that makes sense.

[werq34ac]

depends on the measure I suppose. I would change with every significant change in harmony. Though I find it interesting you had to ask this question on this piece.  o.O