Antonii Baryshevskyi: Mussorgsky & Scriabin

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Antonii Baryshevskyi
Modest Mussorgsky
Alexander Scriabin

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Performer Biography

Antonii Baryshevskyi, born in Kiev, Ukraine in 1988, began his piano studies at the age of seven.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Antonii Baryshevskyi views Mussorgsky as a composer of program music, attempting to depict reality, while Scriabin's music is more personal and abstract in its colors and harmonies.

Interpretation

Pianist Antonii Baryshevskyi believes that the most important thing for an interpreter is to achieve balance between the composer's written intentions and the performer's inner world of reflections and emotions.

Performer Biography

Antonii Baryshevskyi has won over 20 international and Ukrainian competitions, including the 1st Prize at the 14th Arthur Rubinstein Piano Competition in Tel Aviv in 2014.

Interpretation

Antonii Baryshevskyi aims for his interpretations to be personal, new, and open, making everything sound fresh so that fantasies can come alive for the listener.

Composition History

Scriabin's 5th Sonata is considered a clear turning point in his oeuvre, where he "destroyed Romanticism altogether" after creating a prototype in his 4th Sonata.