Scriabin: Sonata Op.64 No.7, 'White Mass' (Volodos)

Arcadi Voldos' thrillingly fulgurant live performance of one of Scriabin's late masterpieces -- though "really fucking trippy" suffices as a description, I suppose.

[eloimorenovalle]

For those who came seeking the super arpeggiato chord, it is on 11:38

[pianomarius]

"really fucking trippy" lmao

[stapler]

Scriabin really favoured the "grace-note flourish followed by a trill" motif in his late sonatas. Like deadly flickering candles.

[positive.juice.apartment]

personally i think this may just the the single greatest piano solo ever written... aggressive, dark, painful, hopeless, spiritual, otherwordly... no other piece takes me to the same place this piece does

[annluck]

00:44 transition
01:14 secondary theme
02:42 Codetta
00:10 horizontal process of the vertical
09:24 Symbolic motif: Light motive
02:39 Symbolic motif: Flight motive
11:12 Resonance effect (the symbol of bells)
10:00 Sonorous suggestion of the ecstatic dance
11:54 The final cadence disappears/ The typical non-ending in atonal pieces(As one of the late piano sonatas of Scriabin's career, the music is highly chromatic and almost atonal)

[erikfreitas]

Delirious, jubilant, sinister, searing, apotropaic ... Scriabin's musical ideas are wondrous and well-integrated.

[mariolongo]

Beautiful Sonata, mystery, passion and feeling interpreted divinely by the great Volodos.

[ARTalive]

I can just tell it's Scriabin's work by the rhythmic ideas used. Strange, but true. The intro is a very good tell of this.

[giacomoguarnieri]

I'm literally speechless by awe. Scriabin and Volodos are geniuses!

[MrSrcc]

Somehow I don't think this would be received too well if it was played at an actual mass.

[irakligogiberidze]

This sonata kills me... It looks like fog... Which is talking you.. And which is around you....

[tomowenpianochannel]

Glemser was my previous favourite, ahead of Hamelin, Richter, Ashkenazy (all of which have their merits). But this may now be the best version i've ever heard - spacious, the right weight given to every note or chord, incredible atmosphere and sound quality. You barely notice the technique here, the music is alive; a spellbinding rendition - including the coda and 'super-arpeggio' chord which Volodos gets exactly right.

[lovaaaa]

this truly was the highpoint of piano writing... I can honestly not think of a single piece that stands up to these late sonatas. Also the printed music is fucking gorgeous

[alexj]

The recapitulation is one of the most intense moments in any piano piece

[peterblenko]

When you give this sonata a chance, its astonishingly beautiful. - even when playing it.

[SoupyMold]

If those "Biblically-accurate angels" had a theme, this would be perfect

[Scherzokinn]

I love so much the intensity of this piece.

[lawrenceuk]

This was surely inspiration for Olivier Messiaen...

[davidrehak]

Alekszandr Szkrjabin:7., ,Fehér mise" Zongoraszonáta Op.64
1.Allegro - Poco meno vivo 00:00
2.Poco piú vivo 04:10
3.Tempo primo 06:01
Arcadi volodos-zongora

[ecarohh]

I love how Ashish doesn't write an analysis