<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>bravo, fred !!! you have said it perfectly. and your instincts are correct. don't feel you have to re-listen to scriabin to find what you have been told you missed. for you have missed nothing. you won't find much more the second time around. don't get me wrong. mr scriabin offered a breakthrough ( or continuation ) in the destruction of key, and the chance to play the world's hardest piece, according to s. richter. ( the only problem with the latter is that now EVERY pianist plays it to deserve that prestige ). and there are very impressive clusters of musical color. but the problem is that it's a little like mickey mouse , the sorcerer. a lot of impressive motion and noise, but not much else.------ in the same league with
your bach ? nope, not a chance. </div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. <f_minor@glenngould.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, January 30, 2012 9:31:30 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [f_minor] Scriabin<br></font><br>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="722012614-30012012"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">GOOD Heavens, I seem to have set the GG forest
afire!!!! Well, my reaction to the Scriabin was a first impression
and what I was paying attention to were the melodic elements, not the
structures. I've heard lots of Scriabin and find him attractive, but
this particular Sonata, on first encounter, I found, now that I think of my
initial metaphor, like a forest devoid of all its leaves. Stark, blank and
empty are the first things that come to mind. To honor the strong
responses that my small post has elicited I will revisit the sonata and give it
another listen......</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="722012614-30012012"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">I still lament GG's lack of Debussy and Faure for that
matter. I can only imagine how he would have launched a frontal
attack on some of Rach's more treacherously ponderous technical
moments.....</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="722012614-30012012"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">Kind regards,</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="722012614-30012012"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff">Fred Houpt</font></span></div><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> f_minor-bounces@glenngould.org
[mailto:f_minor-bounces@glenngould.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>f h<br><b>Sent:</b>
Saturday, January 28, 2012 5:17 PM<br><b>To:</b> Discussion of the Canadian
pianist Glenn Gould.<br><b>Subject:</b> [f_minor] Scriabin<br></font><br></div>
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<td valign="top"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAmdfoeYVs&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAmdfoeYVs&feature=related</a></span><br><br>I
hope that I've copied the URL correctly. Am listening to GG play
Scriabin's sonata #5. Not heard this before and am not overly
impressed. I think GG would have been better off playing more Ravel
and certainly Debussy than this mediocre work.
<br><br>regards,<br><br>Fred Houpt<br></td></tr></tbody></table><p><font style="FONT-SIZE:9px;">_______________________________________________________________________</font></p>
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