Scriabin - Prelude Op 11 No 1

[gustaaavo]

Here's a tiny gem from Scriabin which I recorded today. I hope you enjoy it.
Any feedback would be hugely appreciated.

[mjames]

...the tempo!!!! Pick up the pace!!!

Also I don't know if it's the recording or you, but the pedaling seems to get smudged in quite a few areas. Personally for this piece I would prefer a more clearer tone.

You're on track, but damn man, the tempo!!!

[gustaaavo]

...the tempo!!!! Pick up the pace!!!

Also I don't know if it's the recording or you, but the pedaling seems to get smudged in quite a few areas. Personally for this piece I would prefer a more clearer tone.

You're on track, but damn man, the tempo!!!

Thanks for that. As for the tempo, the Dover edition has a footnote which says that the autograph was marked "ondeggiante carezzando" which was then modified to vivace. And pretty much all editions have a metronome mark of something like 60-70 for the quarter note. But it is ridiculous to count in quarter notes here (because it is 2/2 with 5 eights in every half note)! So it would be half note at 30-35, so I wouldn't be far away. But the point is that the metronome marking is bullshit, not that it justifies my choice of tempo. So I just had to make a choice.

As for the pedal, guilty as charged: I was changing it with every bass note. 

Anyway, I've been banging my head against this score on and off for some years now; it's full of mysteries. Until just recently I arrived to some conclusions about it (maybe right or (more likely) wrong) and that's why I ventured to record it. So you may consider the recording an experiment.

Thanks a lot for listening and for your opinion, it'll surely be circling my head in my next practice sessions.

[goldentone]

Enjoyed it.  Nice work so far.

[siveron]

Nice work, keep it up!