Just when you thought it was safe, here we are again. After playing through Chopin’s Opus 28 Preludes for September 2020 — 24 of them in order of the circle of fifths — we are encouraged yet again by the enthusiasm of Celia, Grace, and Sabrina, and the following of Steven, to play another set of 24 pieces, now the Op. 11 Preludes by Scriabin.
How perfect to play Scriabin on the first day of early darkness. I think the guy is dark. The Russian Winter is coming.
Like the Chopin these are in the order of the circle of fifths. Bach put both his sets of 24 Preludes and Fugues in the ascending order of the keyboard.
I’ve just played through today’s Prelude in C major. Wow, flavors of Brahms, Schumann, a little Chopin — truly pan-Romantic. How did you deal with the rhythms? Especially measure 8 (pictured below) and then again at 20 — do tell!
In the end, I am reminded of the tolling church bells at 5pm in Zürich, Switzerland.
GRACE 11/1: This piece was so lovely! I feel like that certain pieces of Brahms, Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff prepare one for these rhythms. I just loosely and slowly played through the piece so who knows, but it didn’t feel too weird in these sections.
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