Please watch my friend Mary Jane’s UA-cam video: ua-cam.com/video/Xt492xVUEC4/v-deo.html On the day before her 30th birthday, she reflects on her life and gives some very good advice to people in their twenties.
Thank you for recording this precious performance Auke. And thank you for including the score: it's so much more enjoyable to read the music while listening to it. I'm honored by the shoutout to my video, hopefully it can give food for thoughts and help to many others.
Anybody who plays the piano can appreciate just how astounding the articulation is in this performance. Achieving those pearl shaped 16th notes which somehow sound both legato and staccato at the same time takes an incredible technique. I think this might be my favorite.
Ένας σπουδαίος καθηγητής που ειχα στη μουσική οταν τον ρωτούσαμε γιατι δεν εκτιμά τον Ραχμάνινωφ μας απαντούσε : «πολλες νότες…!!!… γιατί;;;; Ενώ ο Μότσαρτ ακριβώς όσες χρειάζονται!!!» Και είχε δίκιο! Όσοι παίζουμε Μότσαρτ ξέρουμε οτι αν μας φύγει μια νότα αν κατι ξεχάσουμε μετά καταρρέει όλο το έργο γιατι κάθε νότα στον Μότσαρτ παίζει τον ρόλο της….
For anyone wondering, the chord progression between 15:10 and 15:40 is V - Im - IVm - ♭VII⁷ - III - Im - IV⁷ - VII° - Im - IV⁷ - ♭VIIm - III⁷ - I⁷ - IVm - ♭VII⁷ - III (with suspensions)
That second movement is exceptionally beautiful! 250 years later we still listen to Mozart's music ... This is one the most precious things life has to offer us
mozart is not beautiful. there is no meaning in his little compositions. they are simple and emotionless. they do not demonstrate true mastery of composition. only of unsophisticated light music.
I appreciate the nuance in your statement, but i would just like to point out that mozart's faux-sentimentality is an affection. He always can ruin a nice melody by going back to arpoggiaturas and alberti basses
Yes, I have heard of that before. I also heard of that happening with Beethoven. Beethoven was really 9 years old when he was considered a child prodigy but his father said Beethoven was 6 years old because 9 years old sounded too old to call Beethoven a prodigy.
Esco Piliatese even if it’s «useless trivia» your comment was not need at all, especially with how rudely you stated it. You had no use in commenting :)
How does Sokolov turn any piece into liquid gold? He makes them make sense. It's magical to me. Not only clear articulation, but extremely musical. All the passages he makes it voiced, cantabile, important. When I try to play it there's so much weird notes. I'm in awe.
This work by W. A. M. is just plain awesome, beautiful piece, It literally brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. I wish Mozart was here today so I could thank him. I have been a fan of Mozart since I was 5 years old In in my 60s now!
Cosindering the situation Mozart faced at that time, I guess that Mozart wanted to express the anger and sorrow in his mind, The living legend Sokolov expresses the emotion perfectly by the brilliant play!!! I have heard this sonata A minor played by various pianists and now I can say with a confidence that Sokolov is the Best.
Grigory Sokolov has very broad repertoire, including Mozart. And his interpretation and ability to apply it to pianoforte is just great. One of the greatest ever
Mozart always stands out from the rest of the composers - especially the ones from his own time. Nobody could create to this height of artistic and technical level.
Mozart wrote this sonata not long after his mother passed away, which was extremely depressing for him. Can you hear how the music leaps between many octaves at once? It's believed by some that's Mozart expressing his sadness in his music, and how he tried to distract himself at the time from the terrible tragedy he was faced with. Mozart is known for creating music with a tone quality that reflected the positive or negative aspects of his life at the time.
The motifs of the first movement are forceful and then an extended feeling of dragging oneself through a swamp with heavy boots. The way the development is written is really telling as well to his misery, which wasn't often for him. The second movement is the lilting cry of a child turning back to his young memories of simple dances, traveling, and simple peaceful tones. The way he wrote the melody pulled like a thread is heartbreaking. The way the third movement runs is incredibly telling of his mood, perhaps his anger at his father. The closing repetitious slamming of chords is uncharacteristic of Mozart and exhibits a rare sliver of his anger.
We tend to read our modern notions of grief, sadness, and art in older artists. Music wasn't such a vulnerable "look at my sadness" type of thing back then. Sad affects were sought to bring out some sort of sadness in the audience, not as a reflection of the composer's own grief, as would be common in the romantic era. Though, sure, one could argue that only a composer with personal tragedy would know how to bring out those "sad affects" onto the audience. Still, we're reading a bit too much into the composer. It reminds me of people who talk that way about Bach's music, when Bach dedicated all of his music to his own expression of how he perceived God, not as an expression of himself. I genuinely think the artist as a self expresser is a new concept.
There is a certain level of insight that Sokolov brings to his performances that I just don't hear in other recordings. Which isn't to say that theirs aren't legitimate, but Sokolov brings something out from behind and between the notes that set him apart from everyone else.
I can't help but to feel heartbreak at 15:10 through 15:39. The six notes per beats are what get me. I can hear a choir singing that section. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Alan Zamarron Yes, I agree, as frantically dark as the first movement is, these few measures in the midst of an otherwise dainty, pleasant reminiscence, is the tragic heart of the entire sonata. Right in the center of the whole thing too! I'm afraid, however, I am less moved by Sokolov's interpretation than by others I've heard.
I would say they are only worthy of emptying Mozart's chamber pot, except that they are not worthy of that honor. Instead, they are worthy of having Mozart's chamber pot emptied on their heads! As Mozart would say, as useful to me as shitting...
This is Mozart's Appassionata. There is that feeling of permanent interruption and necessary continuation, that fighting for expression in the first movement and there is that little volcano of the third. There is something unique and indescribable about this particular sonata of his, despite all of them being, the more often you hear them the more, achingly beautiful.
One cannot necessarily say that. However, its "passion" is not spelled out and screamed into your face. There are other musicians that will more immediately please the very strong passions of Phillistines so Mozart might not be exactly your place to go.
@@miguelisaurusbruh1158 listen to his violín sonata 27 adagio, very melancholic piece. - Don Giovanni a cenar Teco m'invitasti - capriccio k 395 - the requiem - kyrie k 427 from c minor mass - piano Concerto 23, 2nd mov - ah soccorso from don giovanni
This is the most Mozart-ish interpretation of the piece. Others are always too deep too sad too dark. This one has the teasing feeling against those sad feelings. So love the interpretation!!
This is the best Mozart sonata ever, I don't get how this is not much much more popular. It is excellent. Emotionally, it has this raw, in your face opening and theme like Beethoven, and it is very contrapuntal in some places. The development section is ingenious, the way he just develops the initial semi-tone openig motif, to the point of just alternating between E and A on the base along with gorgeous right hand figuration. Then in the recaputilation the theme goes to the left hand for a lengthy section. I think Beethoven got his idea of putting the theme on base on the 3rd movement recapitulation of Moonlight Sonata from this sonata. As much as Mozart is praised, it is pieces like these where you not only think he deserves all praise but you almost think he is underrated somehow still :D
@@kwastormayt Right. Beethoven was a sodomite liar, Mozart was high above both him and all the rest. That is why they murdered him. Unadulterated ENVY.
Sokolov never seezes to amaze me. His understanding of style is so spot on, whether he is in Couperin or Prokofiev.... its a wonder he isn't generally thought of alongside the ranks of Argerich, Pollini, MIchelangeli etc... he deserves his place in the pantheon of the greatest of the greatest... ever. This sonata is a revelation. He effortlessly brushes aside the Mozartians ( Uchida, Pires, Eschenbach ) and plays a fresh, unique and ruthlessly stylish rendering of this often overheard masterpiece.
+mikejr41387 Sokolov is considered by many fellow pianists and piano connoisseurs as far superior to Argerich, Pollini and the like, at least from an interpretative point of view (Michelangeli would be a more complex and different parallel - so let's leave him aside). Sokolov's account of this Mozart's sonata is at the level of Lipatti's famous version, according to me, though their approach is rather different.
well yes, amongst thinking musicians this is obvious... but I mean, he never gained the international popularity or had half the career of Argerich or Pollini. I wonder why?
+mikejr41387 Well he never had a major recording company behind him, and never wanted so since he hates studio recs. He does not travel to US, he rarely playes show-off pieces (like much Liszt, not in his repertoire at all), he stopped playing concerti because of the few reharsals with conductors and complexity in getting around interpretations with many of them. In a nutshell, being uncompromised has its penalties... as usual in life.
This is a truly amazing performance. I find it difficult to imagine a more refined intepretation of this demanding sonata where the repeted left hand chords, in the second movement for instance, almost allways sound murky. Here everything is played with perfect clarity and tone controll. Many thanks!
I've always preferred Emil Gilels, but I have to say Mr. Sokolov really makes these come alive. Sokolov takes a bit more freedom with the tempo/ score, but it works a charm. The few bars around 15:00 are so tender, deep and emotive. I let a few tears. It could also be that I'm more emotional during this whole Corona lock-down, and thinking about my own loved ones. Music really speaks to that like nothing else can.
It’s so good. I’ve read the discription and i saw that he had written the name of the wed where the sheets are available. I accessed that wed but don’t know how to get these sheets. Can you please tell me how to get the sheet or give me the correctly link of the sheets?I would be very thankful.
En el 2019 decidí estudiar piano ya que me gustaba mucho el instrumento y a mí madre igual, hoy en agosto 2024 estoy cursando mi 5to y ante último año de la carrera de piano, esta es la primer obra del programa y estoy haciendo su primer escucha y me encanta ❤
Mozart's best works often come from when he was in too much of an emotional state to give a fuck what the public would think. This was perhaps the first instance of that with his mothers death inspiring this eternally harrowing yet filled with passion for music masterpiece.
I absolutely love the way Mozart used the Neapolitan/Phrygian chord in the first movement. So good. The use of Augmented 6th chords is also on point. That stepwise descent prolonging the motion of i-V incidentally forming a progression of A-, E-/G, F#Ø, F(#6), E is absolutely fantastic. I love the bII6 - vii°65 around 7:58 as well. So much beauty!
Sorry, it may not be related to the topic, but I wanted to ask you something. What is the metronome speed of this piece from start to finish? I'm working on this piece right now, but I don't know its real speed, so unfortunately I'm working slowly.
Sokolov's interpretation of this is admirable both for its period accuracy and its perfect execution, while Uchida's expresses something a bit more emotional, modernly emotional that is. It's impossible to choose a favorite.
Why should we choose? Each mudician expresses him/herself. And each hearer finds what is more important for him/her personally. I enjoy Grigorij Sokolov's playing But other variants are also interesting.
I've been playing the piano for over 15 years now. I can play Bach's fugues and Chopin's etudes and ballades, but I wouldn't dare touch this piece, because it is incredibly difficult to interpret. I don't think I've even heard a completely satisfying interpretation of this piece as of today.
That 3rd movement is so much like Beethoven -- the disjunct melody in the right hand at 21:50, also the use of the lower growly end of the piano at 22:00
One of the rare pieces that I find perfect. Due to the influences of modern time I consider most of classical pieces too long or too boring in some places, despite the beauty of main theme or lightmotive. But this is perfect in its entirety. Mozart is the composer that does this most often.
I wonder if Mozart ever revised any of his music after the fact - it's hard to believe not a note of anything was changed - this piece is typical of his genius...
@@SpaghettiToaster Of course it's 100% Mozart, but the harmony and counterpoint over the pedal points in the development could have come straight out of a bach partita. For example, listen to Bach Partita in D major: ua-cam.com/video/61Hn85VU7d0/v-deo.html It has almost exactly the same harmony (sequence of suspensions including a minor 9th and half-diminished 7th) over the pedal and it's obviously contrapuntal too. Mozart even uses the french overture dotted rhythm in this section too!
Piano Telope Some interesting points; the problem though is that this sonata (1778) predates Mozart’s real introduction to the music of Bach and Handel at Baron van Sweiten’s home in Vienna by about three years - it is very unlikely that before that date he knew much of Bach’s music at all.
@@elaineblackhurst1509 Interesting! Perhaps this is a case of convergent evolution in music rather than a direct influence of one composer on the other. Great minds think alike.
@@elaineblackhurst1509 Perhaps the influence was indirect? Essentially all the music Mozart would have been exposed to during his lifetime was influenced by Bach.
some thing gives me the impression he wanted to be an orchestra composer/conductor but in the process of his making music for orchestra and presenting his creations on piano he practically did it all him self already. its already self-contained performance composition, even though he must have intended it for orchestra
it's very detailed, thought out, a la Sokolov. The pedaling in the opening bars disturb the consistency of the repeated chords a bit but i'm surehe's fully aware of it and he wants it that way, most likely for the sake of the right hand.
This sonata is sad But do you guys know what makes me even more sad? That is someone put several ads, yes, not 1, but 4, ads, right in the middle of this video.
@@Benjamin-ml7sv I mean, nothing is perfect, is it? Ideally, there would be ads in the beginning, between movements, and the end (and UA-cam strives to do that), but the problem I want to ask you is this: if 4-minute music videos can have multiple advertisements, why can't 40-minute concertoes have more than 10 ads? It is because UA-cam (and the music distributors) still has enough sense to limit the alogorithm into placing only a few ads. If you look at it optimistically, we should be glad we are not getting bombarded by advertisements every 4 minutes. I do agree with you that ads in the middle of performances are off-putting, though.
To add to my argument, if UA-cam did not classify this performance as Sokolov's, it probably means that the music distributor holding a contract with Sokolov did not provide UA-cam with a reference recording and did not try to claim this recording for themselves explicitly regarding UA-cam. (I mean, what Google algorithm would not detect a perfect copy or a compressed copy of a recording that exists in its database and label it accordingly?) I don't want to go into much more detail about UA-cam's copyright system but let me ask you this: is it possible for UA-cam to collect every single recording and performance of music out there to put in the database and avoid copyright infringement? The answer is no. Therefore, they relied on a system that assumed that most of the big music distributers will give them their recordings to earn more money. Here is a great video by Tom Scott on UA-cam's copyright system if you want to watch it: m.ua-cam.com/video/1Jwo5qc78QU/v-deo.html (I'm not particularly trying to praise UA-cam here-I don't have UA-cam Red because I do not want to give more money to UA-cam when they fail at a number of things that I want them to fix-but their copyright system is working (at least) to support the legal existence of the company and the liberty of UA-cam creators regarding the posting of copyrighted material.)
Thank you for posting, a five-year belated kudos to your fine UA-cam post "pmc schultz", this wonderful performance with the matching score. It really adds to the enjoyment of this gift to humankind.
This song is very nice. I love how Grigory Sokolov put lots of dynamic into a piece like this. I also love how the first movement is very fast, and the next one is slow and steady. Nice joB!!
I find this piece incredibly moving. Mozart doesn't have many pieces in minor key, and of those that are, quite a few of them end with a movement in a major key (e.g. d minor piano concerto, b minor adagio, g minor string quintet). Interestingly the b minor adagio and g minor string quintet were written shortly after his father's death, and can be seen to have been done so as a response. That they end in a major key puts an entirely different complexion on those works. The last movement here is like an anxious nightmare of a child doomed never to find his mother again.
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Please watch my friend Mary Jane’s UA-cam video: ua-cam.com/video/Xt492xVUEC4/v-deo.html
On the day before her 30th birthday, she reflects on her life and gives some very good advice to people in their twenties.
Thank you.
@@trashguitarplayer ok
Thank you for recording this precious performance Auke. And thank you for including the score: it's so much more enjoyable to read the music while listening to it.
I'm honored by the shoutout to my video, hopefully it can give food for thoughts and help to many others.
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Anybody who plays the piano can appreciate just how astounding the articulation is in this performance. Achieving those pearl shaped 16th notes which somehow sound both legato and staccato at the same time takes an incredible technique. I think this might be my favorite.
Indeed, this pianist has one of the clearest articulations I've heard.
Indeed, the articolato sound is difficult af, and also the trills, in fact I found Mozart being more difficult than some Rachmaninoff ahahahah.
Exactly
For me only Gilels is better for Mozart and Beethoven
Ένας σπουδαίος καθηγητής που ειχα στη μουσική οταν τον ρωτούσαμε γιατι δεν εκτιμά τον Ραχμάνινωφ μας απαντούσε : «πολλες νότες…!!!… γιατί;;;; Ενώ ο Μότσαρτ ακριβώς όσες χρειάζονται!!!» Και είχε δίκιο! Όσοι παίζουμε Μότσαρτ ξέρουμε οτι αν μας φύγει μια νότα αν κατι ξεχάσουμε μετά καταρρέει όλο το έργο γιατι κάθε νότα στον Μότσαρτ παίζει τον ρόλο της….
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
― Artur Schnabel
One of my favorite quotations.
Nice quote.
Why?
Too easy for children? To listen to or to play?
@@brodycates8472 To play.
Sokolov plays with crystalline clarity plus a fine control of dynamics.
Феноменально! ❤
i prefer this to Brendal version.
For anyone wondering, the chord progression between 15:10 and 15:40 is V - Im - IVm - ♭VII⁷ - III - Im - IV⁷ - VII° - Im - IV⁷ - ♭VIIm - III⁷ - I⁷ - IVm - ♭VII⁷ - III (with suspensions)
That progression is a tonal miracle. It could suggest the goal of 200 years of tonal taught was to ground that passage
@@sergiogiudici6976 true
first mozart passage to make me cry lol. i appreciate your comment
I think that should be bIII rather than III?
That second movement is exceptionally beautiful! 250 years later we still listen to Mozart's music ... This is one the most precious things life has to offer us
the most precious
Dean De Block I think it has only been 228 years since his death
Dean De Block gay
mozart is not beautiful. there is no meaning in his little compositions. they are simple and emotionless. they do not demonstrate true mastery of composition. only of unsophisticated light music.
I appreciate the nuance in your statement, but i would just like to point out that mozart's faux-sentimentality is an affection. He always can ruin a nice melody by going back to arpoggiaturas and alberti basses
That Presto... no rushes, no false virtuosism, just pure A minor melodic joy!!!
Thank you for being born, on this day, back in 1756. So indebted to you!
When I hear 15:10 I think of a 70 year old man who has lost his wife.
But it's 21 year old Mozart who lost his mother. Absolutely incredible.
That's because Jesus gave you some response
Yes, I have heard of that before. I also heard of that happening with Beethoven. Beethoven was really 9 years old when he was considered a child prodigy but his father said Beethoven was 6 years old because 9 years old sounded too old to call Beethoven a prodigy.
Basically the same, so you were on the right track.
*Bereavement*
Loss of a family member.
Caters Carrots this is has nothing to do with the original comment, you obviously just wanted to show off useless trivia.
Esco Piliatese even if it’s «useless trivia» your comment was not need at all, especially with how rudely you stated it. You had no use in commenting :)
15:10 is one of my favorite parts. So much tension and beautiful harmony.
I think Beethoven has something just like it in one of his sonatas forgot wich one though. Awsome part
Love his approach to this sonata. Sounds so new, so fresh, so dramatic, and at the same time does complete justice to the language of the period.
Jorge Aguirre right? It is quite fresh.
Agree, not boring at all
Yeah quite fresh
still fresh
How does Sokolov turn any piece into liquid gold? He makes them make sense. It's magical to me. Not only clear articulation, but extremely musical. All the passages he makes it voiced, cantabile, important. When I try to play it there's so much weird notes. I'm in awe.
This work by W. A. M. is just plain awesome, beautiful piece, It literally brings tears to my eyes every time I hear it. I wish Mozart was here today so I could thank him. I have been a fan of Mozart since I was 5 years old In in my 60s now!
Cosindering the situation Mozart faced at that time, I guess that Mozart wanted to express the anger and sorrow in his mind,
The living legend Sokolov expresses the emotion perfectly by the brilliant play!!!
I have heard this sonata A minor played by various pianists and now I can say with a confidence that Sokolov is the Best.
Grigory Sokolov has very broad repertoire, including Mozart. And his interpretation and ability to apply it to pianoforte is just great. One of the greatest ever
Mozart always stands out from the rest of the composers - especially the ones from his own time. Nobody could create to this height of artistic and technical level.
Nobody is a very big word.
@@ffelegal Bach wasn't just nobody, so enriquebonifacino9939's sentence checks out.
Чем больше слушаю., тем сильнее эта музыка меня поражает. О, Господи! ❤❤❤
Mozart wrote this sonata not long after his mother passed away, which was extremely depressing for him. Can you hear how the music leaps between many octaves at once? It's believed by some that's Mozart expressing his sadness in his music, and how he tried to distract himself at the time from the terrible tragedy he was faced with. Mozart is known for creating music with a tone quality that reflected the positive or negative aspects of his life at the time.
vaaai se fu der
The motifs of the first movement are forceful and then an extended feeling of dragging oneself through a swamp with heavy boots. The way the development is written is really telling as well to his misery, which wasn't often for him.
The second movement is the lilting cry of a child turning back to his young memories of simple dances, traveling, and simple peaceful tones. The way he wrote the melody pulled like a thread is heartbreaking.
The way the third movement runs is incredibly telling of his mood, perhaps his anger at his father. The closing repetitious slamming of chords is uncharacteristic of Mozart and exhibits a rare sliver of his anger.
Leitilumo very well said. The second movement in particular is beautiful.
MusicMania248 I know, but from what I have heard and seen, I don't feel sadness. Maybe he wasn't that sad at that age.
We tend to read our modern notions of grief, sadness, and art in older artists. Music wasn't such a vulnerable "look at my sadness" type of thing back then. Sad affects were sought to bring out some sort of sadness in the audience, not as a reflection of the composer's own grief, as would be common in the romantic era. Though, sure, one could argue that only a composer with personal tragedy would know how to bring out those "sad affects" onto the audience. Still, we're reading a bit too much into the composer. It reminds me of people who talk that way about Bach's music, when Bach dedicated all of his music to his own expression of how he perceived God, not as an expression of himself. I genuinely think the artist as a self expresser is a new concept.
I just love the unexpected change starting at 16:37. If that isn't heartbreak I'm not sure what is.
Der beste Mozart ist der Mozart vom Sturm und Drang.
There is a certain level of insight that Sokolov brings to his performances that I just don't hear in other recordings. Which isn't to say that theirs aren't legitimate, but Sokolov brings something out from behind and between the notes that set him apart from everyone else.
I can't help but to feel heartbreak at 15:10 through 15:39. The six notes per beats are what get me. I can hear a choir singing that section. Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Alan Zamarron Yes, I agree, as frantically dark as the first movement is, these few measures in the midst of an otherwise dainty, pleasant reminiscence, is the tragic heart of the entire sonata. Right in the center of the whole thing too! I'm afraid, however, I am less moved by Sokolov's interpretation than by others I've heard.
Totally agreed....feels like my heart is squeezing....
Gives me shivers. It's amazing how that sequence of chords always gives me shivers, in so many different pieces. It's pretty obvious why, but still.
I feel the same thing... Another part that make me feel instigated is in 16:42
The dissonance too excite me, in 15:10
So much beauty here, and power, and melancholy.
There's a specialplace in hell for people who put ads in the middle of classical music smh
Read your comment and just got an ad lol
I would say they are only worthy of emptying Mozart's chamber pot, except that they are not worthy of that honor. Instead, they are worthy of having Mozart's chamber pot emptied on their heads! As Mozart would say, as useful to me as shitting...
Lucifer can and will confirm that.
Lmao
@@user-fu5bp3ep7q in UA-cam app, you can't install ad blocks. They are only useful in browsers .
Astonishing clarity. The first 2 movements are extraordinary, the last nothing short of miraculous.
I’m learning the first movement for an audition and it’s probably become one of my favorite Mozart pieces
The second movement won me the talent show in my high school. I am forever grateful.
That's actually surprising.
toothless toe exactly
We dont give a fuck about you
good job, even though the second movement is free
KuPoMoMo with a classical piece?! Whaaaaat!?
i love the slow movements of mozart
floating and flying on the clouds with his melodies
swooping down into the valleys and canyons and back up again
This is Mozart's Appassionata. There is that feeling of permanent interruption and necessary continuation, that fighting for expression in the first movement and there is that little volcano of the third. There is something unique and indescribable about this particular sonata of his, despite all of them being, the more often you hear them the more, achingly beautiful.
So is this the most passionate and dramatic Motzart can get?
uhm...
ok...
One cannot necessarily say that. However, its "passion" is not spelled out and screamed into your face. There are other musicians that will more immediately please the very strong passions of Phillistines so Mozart might not be exactly your place to go.
@@miguelisaurusbruh1158 it's subtle dramaticism, if you want an in-your-face dramatic Mozart, his minor key concertos are your to-go.
@@FrostDirt Ok thx!, i'm in a mortzart maraton and i've already listened to lacrimosa, all of his piano sonatas, and a lot of his symphonies
@@miguelisaurusbruh1158 listen to his violín sonata 27 adagio, very melancholic piece.
- Don Giovanni a cenar Teco m'invitasti
- capriccio k 395
- the requiem
- kyrie k 427 from c minor mass
- piano Concerto 23, 2nd mov
- ah soccorso from don giovanni
Одна из самых красивейших сонат. Моцарт прекрасен!.. ❤
This is the most Mozart-ish interpretation of the piece. Others are always too deep too sad too dark. This one has the teasing feeling against those sad feelings. So love the interpretation!!
Mozart es inmortal. Esta brillante versión lo pone de relieve
The second movement might be the most beautiful thing I have ever heard from Mozart.
He preforms with the crisp elegance and verve as I understand Mozart.
Falta de respeito do UA-cam colocar um anúncio bem no meio do movimento! Belíssima interpretação, uma das melhores dessa sonata maravilhosa de Mozart.
Какой восхитительный,хрустально-прозрачный звук...
14:16 - 14:45 - 15:10 one can just say: wow
This remarkable performance also requires to to be learned, listening over and over to discover Mozart's and Sokolov's ideas!
This is the best Mozart sonata ever, I don't get how this is not much much more popular. It is excellent. Emotionally, it has this raw, in your face opening and theme like Beethoven, and it is very contrapuntal in some places. The development section is ingenious, the way he just develops the initial semi-tone openig motif, to the point of just alternating between E and A on the base along with gorgeous right hand figuration. Then in the recaputilation the theme goes to the left hand for a lengthy section. I think Beethoven got his idea of putting the theme on base on the 3rd movement recapitulation of Moonlight Sonata from this sonata. As much as Mozart is praised, it is pieces like these where you not only think he deserves all praise but you almost think he is underrated somehow still :D
Beethoven copied Mozart. That is his fame and fortune.
@@psalm2764 and member of the great germany
@@psalm2764 God l wish its not right
@@bedranhikmet5609 It is though.
@@kwastormayt Right. Beethoven was a sodomite liar, Mozart was high above both him and all the rest. That is why they murdered him. Unadulterated ENVY.
Sokolov never seezes to amaze me. His understanding of style is so spot on, whether he is in Couperin or Prokofiev.... its a wonder he isn't generally thought of alongside the ranks of Argerich, Pollini, MIchelangeli etc... he deserves his place in the pantheon of the greatest of the greatest... ever. This sonata is a revelation. He effortlessly brushes aside the Mozartians ( Uchida, Pires, Eschenbach ) and plays a fresh, unique and ruthlessly stylish rendering of this often overheard masterpiece.
+mikejr41387 Sokolov is considered by many fellow pianists and piano connoisseurs as far superior to Argerich, Pollini and the like, at least from an interpretative point of view (Michelangeli would be a more complex and different parallel - so let's leave him aside). Sokolov's account of this Mozart's sonata is at the level of Lipatti's famous version, according to me, though their approach is rather different.
well yes, amongst thinking musicians this is obvious... but I mean, he never gained the international popularity or had half the career of Argerich or Pollini. I wonder why?
+mikejr41387 Well he never had a major recording company behind him, and never wanted so since he hates studio recs. He does not travel to US, he rarely playes show-off pieces (like much Liszt, not in his repertoire at all), he stopped playing concerti because of the few reharsals with conductors and complexity in getting around interpretations with many of them. In a nutshell, being uncompromised has its penalties... as usual in life.
I lost my Mozart sheet music book so I really appreciate this!
The second movement is so good.
Музыка~ божественна! Исполнение~божественно! БРАВО, МОЦАРТ! БРАВО, МАЭСТРО! Лучшее исполнение! Восторг и восхищение! ❤
This is a truly amazing performance. I find it difficult to imagine a more refined intepretation of this demanding sonata where the repeted left hand chords, in the second movement for instance, almost allways sound murky. Here everything is played with perfect clarity and tone controll. Many thanks!
The sonata sweeps one directly into its enthralling beauty, lightness, and intensity. 🥰😍
it is infuriating to have ads marking this masterpiece.
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I've always preferred Emil Gilels, but I have to say Mr. Sokolov really makes these come alive. Sokolov takes a bit more freedom with the tempo/ score, but it works a charm. The few bars around 15:00 are so tender, deep and emotive. I let a few tears. It could also be that I'm more emotional during this whole Corona lock-down, and thinking about my own loved ones. Music really speaks to that like nothing else can.
At this piece, this is best interpretation I have heard! Listen to how every not is as clear as crystal! Brava!!!!
I'm thirteen years old, and my teacher just gave me this piece, I'm so FREAKING EXCITED to start working on it!
Alexandra's same 😆😆
It’s so good. I’ve read the discription and i saw that he had written the name of the wed where the sheets are available. I accessed that wed but don’t know how to get these sheets. Can you please tell me how to get the sheet or give me the correctly link of the sheets?I would be very thankful.
I'm 17 and I've just been given it so.. I guess you're winning in life.
@@misoweli I'm 19 and I just started playing it, and by your logic I should be even more loser than you? xD Makes no sense...
I'm 23 years old and I'm practicing the 3rd movement, I'm the real loser here kids.
La migliore esecuzione che ho sentito! Ricerca timbrica eccezionale!
Mozart was such a genius! Incredible :)
Я думаю, что Моцарт~ посланец Бога на Земле!
I finished leaning the piece, but the precision and cleanness is just unbelievable
Just started studying this and I feel like crying…
truly amazing sonata written at the age of 22. The finale goes like a tragic rocket.
Григорий Соколов, Вы~Гений! Браво! Браво! Браво! ❤ Потрясающе!
En el 2019 decidí estudiar piano ya que me gustaba mucho el instrumento y a mí madre igual, hoy en agosto 2024 estoy cursando mi 5to y ante último año de la carrera de piano, esta es la primer obra del programa y estoy haciendo su primer escucha y me encanta ❤
The Russian musical training is outstanding which is why they have produced so many world class musicians. This is one more example
Mozart was German
@@Smirklessreferring to Sokolov, not Mozart
Mozart's best works often come from when he was in too much of an emotional state to give a fuck what the public would think. This was perhaps the first instance of that with his mothers death inspiring this eternally harrowing yet filled with passion for music masterpiece.
I absolutely love the way Mozart used the Neapolitan/Phrygian chord in the first movement. So good. The use of Augmented 6th chords is also on point. That stepwise descent prolonging the motion of i-V incidentally forming a progression of A-, E-/G, F#Ø, F(#6), E is absolutely fantastic. I love the bII6 - vii°65 around 7:58 as well.
So much beauty!
Wow, whats is A- ? It's Am ?
Can anyone timestamp this?
@@tavmata A minor can also be notated as A-
@@tanmayee3066 man, music theory is so confusing, help me pls
Genius .... expecially so beautiful from 3:22 to 4:04 !!
my favorite part
15:10 sad beyond words
How?
@@musik350 Unless you are born without hearing you can hear that its a sad part
@@Metadeth1997 Then I'm apparently deaf, thanks for your diagnosis.
@@musik350 Apparently
19:10 Does anyone notice Presto sounds very much like Beethoven's Pathetique sonata 3rd movement?
Yes! And both this and the Pathetique were the 8th piano sonata that each had composed.
@@sabersalsh1200And both have a second movement in the key of the 6th scale degree
On the reptition of the second part (1st movement) he changes the dinamics..I find that cool!!
absolutely beautiful and wonderfully played 🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺👏
This is so beautiful.
I had been searching it for a long time.
Incredibly played by Sokolov.
Stupendo,.. meraviglioso !!! 🎶💞💖
My favorite one, the sound is so good. I like all the movements and especially the second one when I imagine he's backing to his childhood.. Oh my *_*
4:21-4:38 Nobody does these kinds of things other than Mozart
Sorry, it may not be related to the topic, but I wanted to ask you something. What is the metronome speed of this piece from start to finish? I'm working on this piece right now, but I don't know its real speed, so unfortunately I'm working slowly.
@@zeynzeynaI would say its around 119 - 121 bpm range, but of course you gotta go faster at some parts
グリゴリー・ソコロフによる非の打ち所がない誠に見事な演奏ですね。円熟期を迎えて巧みな指裁きに益々磨きがかかり、この難曲をいとも簡単に弾いているように感じられます。
Mozart weet altijd met de simpelste middelen het grootste effect te bereiken.
Как же прекрасна эта Музыка!!! ❤
Sokolov's interpretation of this is admirable both for its period accuracy and its perfect execution, while Uchida's expresses something a bit more emotional, modernly emotional that is. It's impossible to choose a favorite.
Why should we choose? Each mudician expresses him/herself. And each hearer finds what is more important for him/her personally. I enjoy Grigorij Sokolov's playing
But other variants are also interesting.
I've been playing the piano for over 15 years now. I can play Bach's fugues and Chopin's etudes and ballades, but I wouldn't dare touch this piece, because it is incredibly difficult to interpret. I don't think I've even heard a completely satisfying interpretation of this piece as of today.
the best except Dinu Lipati
Sokolov is the best (for me) interpreter of this piece
Для меня тоже!
That 3rd movement is so much like Beethoven -- the disjunct melody in the right hand at 21:50, also the use of the lower growly end of the piano at 22:00
One of the rare pieces that I find perfect. Due to the influences of modern time I consider most of classical pieces too long or too boring in some places, despite the beauty of main theme or lightmotive. But this is perfect in its entirety. Mozart is the composer that does this most often.
You mean "Leitmotif". But you don't really mean that, because the term Leitmotif was not used until about 80 years after this was written.
@@mauricerivermusic9110 probably meant the thema
One word. Masterpiece
the second movement is so sincere
4:20 Mozart did it before Dr. Dre
Dunh Lee hehe nice ear bro
Dunh Lee haha! And the time is 4:20 as well 😂
Hahahaha
Also, if you slow down the first RH figure in K. 332, you get the riff for "Flashlight" by Parliament. George Clinton stole it.
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I wonder if Mozart ever revised any of his music after the fact - it's hard to believe not a note of anything was changed - this piece is typical of his genius...
Studying this at the moment, gorgeous piece and the 2nd movement actually sounds harder than it sounds!
The influence of J.S. Bach in the first movement is prevalent.
How? It doesn't sound like Bach at all.
@@SpaghettiToaster Of course it's 100% Mozart, but the harmony and counterpoint over the pedal points in the development could have come straight out of a bach partita. For example, listen to Bach Partita in D major: ua-cam.com/video/61Hn85VU7d0/v-deo.html It has almost exactly the same harmony (sequence of suspensions including a minor 9th and half-diminished 7th) over the pedal and it's obviously contrapuntal too. Mozart even uses the french overture dotted rhythm in this section too!
Piano Telope Some interesting points; the problem though is that this sonata (1778) predates Mozart’s real introduction to the music of Bach and Handel at Baron van Sweiten’s home in Vienna by about three years - it is very unlikely that before that date he knew much of Bach’s music at all.
@@elaineblackhurst1509 Interesting! Perhaps this is a case of convergent evolution in music rather than a direct influence of one composer on the other. Great minds think alike.
@@elaineblackhurst1509 Perhaps the influence was indirect? Essentially all the music Mozart would have been exposed to during his lifetime was influenced by Bach.
some thing gives me the impression he wanted to be an orchestra composer/conductor
but in the process of his making music for orchestra and presenting his creations on piano
he practically did it all him self already. its already self-contained performance composition, even though he must have intended it for orchestra
it's very detailed, thought out, a la Sokolov. The pedaling in the opening bars disturb the consistency of the repeated chords a bit but i'm surehe's fully aware of it and he wants it that way, most likely for the sake of the right hand.
Exellent playing. I have no words.
This sonata is sad
But do you guys know what makes me even more sad?
That is someone put several ads, yes, not 1, but 4, ads, right in the middle of this video.
Use an adblocker, for god sake..
@@leesiheon8013 Well it's not going to Sokolov actually. The algorithm decided it's played by 6 other pianists.
@@leesiheon8013 But not in the middle of a song, I mean you can but as much as you want at the beginning.
@@Benjamin-ml7sv I mean, nothing is perfect, is it? Ideally, there would be ads in the beginning, between movements, and the end (and UA-cam strives to do that), but the problem I want to ask you is this: if 4-minute music videos can have multiple advertisements, why can't 40-minute concertoes have more than 10 ads? It is because UA-cam (and the music distributors) still has enough sense to limit the alogorithm into placing only a few ads. If you look at it optimistically, we should be glad we are not getting bombarded by advertisements every 4 minutes. I do agree with you that ads in the middle of performances are off-putting, though.
To add to my argument, if UA-cam did not classify this performance as Sokolov's, it probably means that the music distributor holding a contract with Sokolov did not provide UA-cam with a reference recording and did not try to claim this recording for themselves explicitly regarding UA-cam. (I mean, what Google algorithm would not detect a perfect copy or a compressed copy of a recording that exists in its database and label it accordingly?) I don't want to go into much more detail about UA-cam's copyright system but let me ask you this: is it possible for UA-cam to collect every single recording and performance of music out there to put in the database and avoid copyright infringement? The answer is no. Therefore, they relied on a system that assumed that most of the big music distributers will give them their recordings to earn more money.
Here is a great video by Tom Scott on UA-cam's copyright system if you want to watch it: m.ua-cam.com/video/1Jwo5qc78QU/v-deo.html
(I'm not particularly trying to praise UA-cam here-I don't have UA-cam Red because I do not want to give more money to UA-cam when they fail at a number of things that I want them to fix-but their copyright system is working (at least) to support the legal existence of the company and the liberty of UA-cam creators regarding the posting of copyrighted material.)
Thank you for posting, a five-year belated kudos to your fine UA-cam post "pmc schultz", this wonderful performance with the matching score. It really adds to the enjoyment of this gift to humankind.
This piece is magnificent
Beautiful - thanks so much for sharing!
He creates a special atmosphere
This song is very nice. I love how Grigory Sokolov put lots of dynamic into a piece like this. I also love how the first movement is very fast, and the next one is slow and steady. Nice joB!!
Piece not song. Song is something else.
@@TheMightyFork_ I saw the main comment and immediately knew what the one reply would say xD (not hate at all but it just made me laugh.)
This is beautiful. Very easy to listen too.
Nicolas Ejzenberg And very hard to play xD
+professor de portuga do YT Yeah... :) I'm actually playing it for a competition, and it's unbelievably difficult!
Joanna Zhang One must be very very inteligent to play this
professor de portuga do YT haha IKR!
Joanna Zhang ikr? What is this?
Truly a great work of art!
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I find this piece incredibly moving. Mozart doesn't have many pieces in minor key, and of those that are, quite a few of them end with a movement in a major key (e.g. d minor piano concerto, b minor adagio, g minor string quintet). Interestingly the b minor adagio and g minor string quintet were written shortly after his father's death, and can be seen to have been done so as a response. That they end in a major key puts an entirely different complexion on those works. The last movement here is like an anxious nightmare of a child doomed never to find his mother again.
4:20 My heart...
Mozart is a great composer. I want to be like him.
son oeuvre pour piano n egale quand meme pas celle de Bach.
I Play it but I'm 14. This is such a beautiful sonate!
Im 15 and I play it too. Its one of the best pieces I've ever taken, its so beautiful.
@@Ksgskshs I agree with you
I’m 16 and I do nothing. Beautiful indeed