Friday 8 May 2009

Coruscating Words and Music


Beneath you lie two miles of ocean—a bottomlessness, for all practical purposes, an infinity of blue... A thousand coruscating shafts of sunlight probe it, illuminating nothing.
~Kenneth Brower, 'The Destruction of Dolphins'


And... the sound of reflective water, the music of meditative oceans.


Samuil Feinberg plays Alexander Scriabin's Mazurka Opus 3 No. 1 (recorded in 1952), from his Seven Mazurkas.
Feinberg (1890-1962) was a pupil of Alexander Goldenweiser and one of the most eminent Russian virtuosos of his generation. Feinberg met Scriabin at the age of 23, he had the fortune of being one of the very few young pianists Scriabin appreciated; whilst he reproached almost all of them for a style which he considered too hard and insufficiently expressive.



Scriabin Mazurka Opus 40 No. 2, performed by the wonderful pianist Artur Pizarro.



Samuil Feinberg plays Alexander Scriabin's Mazurka in F sharp major, Opus 25, No. 7.



*The secret photographer and more images to be revealed in the following post. :-)

1 comment:

lune_blanc said...

You always introduce me to great music, thank you!

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