Simon Farintosh Plays Preludes by Scriabin

Simon Farintosh plays his arrangements of Four Preludes by Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1871-1915). This comes via Simon’s YouTube Channel with video and sound production by the Drew Henderson. Nice arrangements and great phrasing and pacing throughout. I used to teach Simon when he was a youth student at the Conservatory, so it’s great to see a former student doing so well. He is now finishing off his masters with Rene Izquierdo down at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Congrats Simon! The preludes are originally for piano, here are the opus numbers and timings for video:

0:00 Prelude in E Major, Op. 11, No. 9
1:50 Prelude in G Minor, Op. 11, No. 22
3:07 Prelude in E-flat Minor, Op. 16, No. 4
4:17 Prelude in B Major, Op. 27, No. 2

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

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Bonnie Stenstrom

March 12, 2020 / 6:41 pm Reply

Brad, thank you for this video of Simon .. I didn’t realize he had a You Tube channel and haven’t heard him play for two years. Now I can have enjoy hearing him and his progress at any time. This was delightful and the video and audio were thoughtfully done. Bonnie S.