Scarlatti Sonata in D minor, K.9 [Denis Zhdanov]
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2024
- This piece is often played at a faster tempo; however, I have always imagined it on a rather slower side, reminding me of old-fashioned fairy tales about sad and naive princesses and magical folks.
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So nuanced, so subtle 🥹 I’m no expert but in my humble opinion this performance shows just about highest level of piano artistry, bravissimo 😭👏👏👏
Какие интересные украшения, изысканные штрихи, браво, Денис, потрясающее исполнение!
Beautifully played Denis. The performance has so much elegance and finesse. Nice additions to the ornamentation too!
Thank you very much!
Absolutely beautiful, thank you .
Thank you too!
Wonderful
I studied this piece several years ago and your beautiful rendition makes me want to pick it up again 😊
Sounds gorgeous! Congratulations!
while this may not be my style of music to listen or play, you played it really wonderfully!
❤❤❤ so cantabile, so refreshing.... listened over and over. Woow!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you😊
Very beautifully played,thank you
Many thanks!
@@DenZhdanovPianist I just discovered your wonderful piano lesson courses on teachable. I can’t wait to get started. Very inspiring indeed. Wishing you lots of success in 2024
Beautiful playing Denis, the recording is excellent. I noticed your added ornamentation they are very tasteful. Scarlatti for me evokes the renaissance which i see as the final height of the middle ages. It gives me ambiance images like time travel in Italian palaces, the rich nobility so educated in the arts and the handcraft of artisans everywhere a million times more skilled than today without machine automation.
I've continued my studies of Czerny school of velocity i have reached n 36, with the hope of elucidating my right hand thumb issue (you remember). Czerny is excellent for focusing on technical problems.
I still don't know if it's an injury sequel i am not convinced of that anymore. I find no technical difficulty for my left hand in these studies but for my right hand because of the thumb, they are difficult. It sometimes baffles me how easily my left feels playing and it is the exact opposite for the right hand. i am left handed but this is too much of a difference to explain it that way. At the same time this has given me an experience that probably no other pedagogue pianist has known. Expert professionals like you, have equally developed both hands or nearly and the memory of how it felt to advance your technique from a lower intermediate level is a long ago faint memory. You can watch intermediate piano students and see posture mistakes and use of hand errors but i have both the expert (my left hand) and the student (my right hand) in the same person. I have made extremely careful minute decomposition of micro-movements (always using mirror symmetrical transpositions when comparing the hands) and what i observed was astounding. Suppose i want to improve a passage in the right hand. My left hand demonstrates it and it feel it's so easy, no problem at all litteraly. Then i see and feel the right hand struggling quite badly with it. I then decompose the micro movements of my left hand (better than any teacher-student relation can do since i can feel every muscle and any sensation and demonstrate slow motion at infinity). Then i try for my right hand to mimic exactly every micro movement to make it do exactly what the left hand does. One would think the progress would be immediate, since nobody has such difference of levels between their hands, but it does not work at least not instantly no matter how slow. It's as if the brain does not find the same ease and comfort in the positions and transitions that the left hand gets. And there i also found that every slightest micro time adjustment of movement, use of gravity, counter movements from other fingers to help the thumb, makes a total difference. It's almost invisible to the eye, the wrist slightly rotates while weight is also used and muscle relaxation or sometimes counter balance is so precise all happening at the same time. Bottom line this cannot be taught. I heard many Doctoral pianists told me, I just can do it but i don't know how i do it and i couldn't teach it. That's exactly it. Somehow it is acquired but how ? that is still a mystery lust like my left hand.
But maybe there is hope i see a slow progress. I think that this micro movements decomposition approach is suited to my situation because one hand is so good and the other poor. Sometimes i spend 20 minutes on a very simple movement that feels so natural and easy with my left hand and no matter how much i try to be an exact copy the right hand does not find it.
Yes, the thumb feels efficient when is not isolated but being used with some rotation and gravity.
Like how it sounds like a harpsichord
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Hi Denis, any plan for a tutorial on this K9 sonata ? Thanks. Luc
Hi Luc
Actually, that’s probably a good idea. I’ll try to do it soon.
@@DenZhdanovPianist I'd love it, too... Sign me up! This is a piece I've played for years...at first it was lumpy and vertical and bombastic. Over time, more fluid and charming....and your playing is exactly what I'd like to achieve - also at the tempo you picked. So...as soon as you do a lesson on this, I'll be there!
I keep saying this, but you're a fabulous teacher! and fun. and funny. Bravo
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Me too waiting for Scarlatti tutorial!
Denis, how hard is K. 1? I've always dreamt of playing it since I heard the Pogorelich recording.
A bit tricky, but not among the hardest. It was probably my first Scarlatti, after a while it was a bullet proof 1st round piece. If you sort out the fingering and motion coordination for broken thirds, it’ll be easy enough
I see. I love how Pogo plays the trills. I always have the image of an 18th Century young debutante with a powder wig, laughing coquettishly during the trills. Making trills expressive is quite a challenge. Maybe I'll wait a little before playing it. I want to tackle it when I can make art out of the piece and not just the general idea of the piece.
Bravo, Denis! Actually, I always disliked this sonata. So many awful performances heard. But somehow, you made me like it. And with your performance, I even enjoyed it A LOT 👏
Thank you Felix! Glad you liked it! ☺️