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color=#0000ff>I for one did not compare Scriabin to Bach and it would seem to me
a useless exposition. Bach was entirely wonderful and is without a doubt a
pillar of the Western canon of art. Scriabin was not but that doesn't
reduce him to poverty and disuse. He has his place and in my view he is
best viewed as a moderately important romantic Russian, who stands (in my view)
below Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff>As for berating, people do so when in fact it's just an
opinion. We all know we're just expressing an opinion...there are no
absolute rights or wrongs in musical appreciation.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=399544320-31012012><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>Jörgen
Lundmark<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 31, 2012 3:40 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
Discussion of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [f_minor]
Scriabin<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I still don't understand the need to berate things one doesn't
appreciate. If Gould, Horowitz, Richter, Sofronitsky, Feinberg, Berman, Hamelin
etc., et.c. felt that Scriabin was worth the effort, I don't feel there's any
point calling his music "lot of impressive motion and noise, but not much else".
Gould did on several occations rate Scriabin highly, especially compared with
many contemporary composers. Also, I don't see the point of comparing Scriabin
or most other composers with Bach. The latter had such immense influence over
music history and wrote so many seminal works that only Beethoven and Mozart cut
the mustard in my humble opinion.<BR><BR>Let's instead talk of things we like,
and what Gould did or could have brought to that music.<BR><BR>/Jorgen<BR>
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<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 ?
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