Now for those who look for a not well known absolute treasury of piano "repertoire", the mighty Samuil Feinberg, whose fourth sonatas was praised by Scriabin himself...
As i already said, Scriabin nor Feinberg are for me secondary composers, but great one....Feinberg is a Scriabin disciple....
Here it is double CD BIS recording. Nikolaos Samaltanos plays the piano in the 1,4,5,9,10,11 sonatas. In the other sonatas (2,3,6,7,8,12) plays Christophe Sirodeau.
The two pianists to my heart and ears are more than just good....
Feinberg sonatas are massage of the soul and spirit dialogue....The dual musical time dimension are together woven in a continuous flyings between heights and depths , the melody is born only to return different toward his original source....I cannot fault Feinberg... It is with Scriabin my prefered works in the Russian piano school... The greatest piano school on earth by far...For sure it is only my opinion, feel free to differ... 😁😉😊
One word can resume these sonatas for me :
"Enthusiasm" , which meaning came from ancient greek i studied in my teen and i remembered for all my life the stunning etimological spelling :ἐνθουσιασμός from ἐν (en, “in”) and θεός (theós, “god”) and οὐσία (ousía, “essence”), meaning "inspired by [a] god’s essence"...
The melody, rythm and harmony are only there to suggest a journey toward a never taken road toward a higher truth....
As claimed the Mathematician Alexander Grothendieck in his stunning 1000 pages book about God ," la clef des songes" untranslated alas! in English and even not officially published save as a PDF on the internet , "truth" cannot be defined....
The greatest Christian mystic before him, Dyonisos the Areopagyte demonstrated why and inspired completely Georg Cantor, who know him well because he taught also theology , for his set theory foundation and pre-axiomatization principle of lim itation of size , the greatest mathematician before Grothendieck...Cantor and Grothendieck are without any possible discussion the most influentials and deep mathematicians in mathematic history, on par with Archimedes, Newton, Gauss or Riemann...
Feinberg Sonatas
