Mozart: Piano Sonata No 14 in C minor, K 457

Grigory Sokolov in Schwetzingen, May 22, 2001

[@MLCflash]

The tempo is perfect! Too many pianists play it way too fast. I think he really understands how to make us listen carefully to all what happens in the melody. Also the contrast between the three movements is wonderful in his performance. Sokolov rules! Mozart doesn’t need to be played like a high speed train.

[@bernylecuont2116]

Is not tempo .. but plays very hoood

[@user-oe7qw6vm5t]

Какой умный комментарий. Спасибо Вам.

[@jobstludwig6197]

Gulda's Tempo gefällt mir viel besser, weil es so wunderbar frech und anarchisch wird .

[@cikibli]

0:00 - I. Molto allegro
9:41 - II. Adagio
19:14 - III. Allegro assai

[@dusankosanovic5386]

Slow Mozart is superb, people! This is the real way to play Mozart (by, for instance, Rubinstein/Horowitz's suggestion of playing Mozart like romantic Chopin and play Chopin like classicism Mozart) and pretty hard. It's great to hear all nuances of his genial musical structures.

[@frankskorupa165]

undisputed gifted... one of the greatest at the present...saw him a few times. At his recitals he just keep on playing till he had enough (mostly after some hours). Absolutely incredible ❤

[@lennartforsman2553]

Mozart revealing intimate moments in his matrimony. As Mitsuko Ushida said, everything Mozart wrote was opera. Sokolov is again very personal in his both hilarious and dramatic staging of this performance on par with the one by Gulda.

[@NameName-oc4cl]

Splendid rendition!

[@shadowjuan2]

After listening to this it feels like every other interpretation is rushed...what a benchmark!

[@timothythorne9464]

Candid Falcon I like the more relaxed pace of this performance! I think Mozart would have approved.
This whole sonata is different from most of the composer's works. It's introspective, moody at times, romantic, and almost Beethovenish. Truly Mozart at his most inspired.

[@nadastojanovic9585]

Much slower than Brendel. They are both my favourites. I must admit that Sokolov's gentle touch appeals to me. I know that that is the most difficult to achieve, to be gentle and not shallow.

[@gonzalo4658]

Him (He🤡) and Brendel are Real musicians

[@GourSmith]

I like both, but nothing matches Brendel’s intensity of this sonata, for me 💯

[@iksralquyuud]

It takes real discipline to be able to play the first movement this slow. I can't say it's my favorite tempo but he pulls you in and makes you continue to listen, if not accept his point of view.

[@Eric-cb7cq]

try 1.25 speed

[@rosannafara]

Better Emil Gilels

[@gonzalo4658]

This comment is so right that it hurt my head to say anything. And yet despite your so correct comment, i cant say it takes discipline to play that movement slow. Nothing should take “real” discipline to play slow. Adjusting tempos is hard on say, Bach. Sokolov likes playing simple stuff slow to do yes, suck you into that His point of view. God I love your comment again it bothers to say words

[@ms.carlson3904]

I don't know if he hit/ reached the sublime because that is what you aim for or feel in the slow second movements of Mozart Sonatas - you play and feel as if you have entered heaven. It can be quite mind blowing.

[@irenenaselli2429]

Un Mozart operistico, cantado.Una interpretacion maravillosa.

[@user-yk3kh1xx5y]

Восхищаюсь и учусь!

[@TaisiiaKhokhlova]

БОЖЕСТВЕННО!

[@amedeomarra8398]

Ottima interpretazione da parte di un grande maestro.

[@albericolofaso9261]

Splendida l'interpretazione dei Olga Jegunova, una straordinaria pianista che fa rivivere sensazioni straordinarie

[@hammercollege023]

Una interpretación preciosa

[@CarlBowlby]

Another comment about the tempo because there are a lot of them: In Mozart’s “autograph score” the tempo is marked Allegro NOT Molto Allegro. I find his tempo perfect for the 1st Mvt.

[@makytondr8607]

Carl Bowlby Also this theme was inspired by Bach’s Royal Theme from the Musical Offering, which isn’t played too fast either.

[@CarlBowlby]

Maky Tondr i had never noticed that before. And you’re talking about Bach’s BWV 1079, right?

[@syourke3]

Agreed!

[@DanielFahimi]

@@CarlBowlby Mozart's main publisher published it as molto allegro which means that Mozart made a correction later on.

[@CarlBowlby]

@@DanielFahimi how so? Publishers write their own tempos all the time

[@amadeus436]

he played the 3rd mov so beautifuly!

[@GSHAPIROY]

+amadeus Which is exactly why I don't like this recording.

[@timothythorne9464]

amadeus did Mozart borrow a motive from Beethoven's famous "Pathetique" sonata, in the secondary theme of the second movement of this sonata? There's an uncanny resemblance between the two works. And, both are incomparably beautiful!

[@kelvino1237]

@@timothythorne9464 naw beethoven borrowed from mozart

[@NamNgo-op6se]

@@GSHAPIROY why?

[@GSHAPIROY]

@@NamNgo-op6se Not all music is meant to be "beautiful" in such sense. The third movement of this Sonata is agonizing rather than "beautiful".

[@user-tl7wu8ip9h]

*13:24* Середина 2 части!

[@giacomozaccone2284]

In this piano sonata dedicated to Therese von Trattner Mozart largely anticipates the model of the piano sonatas of the Romanticism. WE also feel this in the piano Concerto K491.Entrambi le composizioni indicano gli albori del Romanticismo che si faceva strada e che continuerà con le piano sonate di Beethoven.Therese von Trattner era la piu' bella delle allieve di Mozart. Giacomo Zaccone, Associazione Mozart, Italia.Messina, Italy

[@timothythorne9464]

This is the closest to Beethoven that Mozart ever came. So many aspects of this splendid sonata anticipate Romanticism.

[@godisreality7014]

@@timothythorne9464 Ha! Beethoven didn´t write anything original, but leached off Mozart every step of the way.

[@timothythorne9464]

@@godisreality7014 Mozart brought the 18th-century Classical style to its highest level of development. In his later pieces like this sonata, and the Fantasie, K. 475, as well as the last three symphonies, Don Giovanni and the Requiem K. 626 he explored chromatics and elements associated with the Romantic style, but Mozart never strayed far from Classical orthodoxy.
Beethoven, from the very outset, his First Symphony, the first 3 piano sonatas, the first 3 piano trios, and quartets op. 18 show a bold, innovative composer willing to explore unusual harmonies and rhythms, and abrupt shifts in dynamics. He acquired nothing from Mozart except for occasional melodic fragments, which Beethoven expounded into full-blown songs.

[@godisreality7014]

@@timothythorne9464 Mozart was from above, beethoven (beth-aven meaning worthless) was from beneath. Traditional history does not explain the truth about Mozart - or Beethoven and their connection.

[@godisreality7014]

@@timothythorne9464 From what I gather, Mozart demonstrated that full development and freedom can be achieved only through self-restraint and adherence to the law and not straying beyond it.

[@vijinanadu1962]

此曲精妙，莫札特在天人之間，人不我知，且禱於天，志於道，據於德，依於仁，游於藝，天德流行，自強不息

[@CarlBowlby]

You have to keep in mind that the “piano” Mozart played and composed for was very different than the “modern” pianos we have today. So keeping this in mind any performer, in my opinion, has to perform the way it would have sounded in 1784 and not 2018 (or whenever this sonata was performed in concert). I have some disagreements to his interpretation, but this matters little in the scheme of things. However, all this said, I would have preferred a “lighter” touch and “delicacy” that Mozart himself would have applied to this composition when he composed and performed it, presumably, himself. Other than all this, a bravura performance and excellent execution. Thank you.

[@siemonblidener652]

I see nothing wrong with adjusting older works to newer musical approaches. I'm pretty sure the composers wouldn't mind at all seeing that their music is still played and cherished 200 years after their deaths.

[@walterstoffel4714]

I'd think it would be very difficult to make this sound like it did in Mozart's time short of playing it on a period instrument. www.lanceaspiritunbroken.com

[@timothythorne9464]

I really believe that the composer would be thrilled to listen to this interpretation! It's sublime and underscores the reality that it was Mozart, not Beethoven, who started the trend toward Romanticism in music.

[@user-fg4dv6ru9e]

MOZART is above human being. he is GOD,GOD.

[@GourSmith]

🙃

[@blankroyai]

I thought that was Matt Lucas on the thumbnail 😳

[@oronzorapana]

ELOHIM

[@TheShamwari]

Great almost as good as Wanda Landoska(sp), such a lot of feeling , or is that called rubato ? Many of the modern pianists seem determined to kill their pianos ! And the modern Steinways proove they "can take it" by giving what I would call a viscous(sp) tone !

[@zvezdinki7998]

До минор рулит!

[@xbqchm]

If you have lung disease, stay at home, don't go to a concert. Why do people who don't get this exist?

[@samynohff]

Selfishness .. Egoism ... Cold blooded and insensitiveness .

[@berni1602]

True!
The same: if you don't have any neurons, keep watching TV, don't comment on a social media. Why do people who don't get this exist?

[@berni1602]

I couldn't describe xbqchm better than you :D

[@hyenaskate]

Lots of old people at concerts. Old people tend to cough a lot.

[@bitchslappedme]

It's usually the AC combined with the dust mites on the velvet seats . I'll have no problems for months and months but as soon as I enter a concert room I feel my asthma acting up

[@quatore-5886]

Whoever was coughing the WHOLE TIME should have been escorted out

[@sofiag.b.8783]

0:00 - 0:30

[@amedeomarra8398]

Esiste e c'e' qualcosa di Beethoveniano, prima del grandissimo Ludwig van Beethoven; confermo quello che dico e scrivo. Dogo Argentino.

[@harryandruschak2843]

Voting "Like" on 17 December 2017

[@YANAGITAtokinori]

Not rapid is good.

[@Johannes_Brahms65]

If I would play this so slow people would stumble over each other to condemn it.
It's nice as background music in a restaurant.

[@zladatv]

*👍класс и привет от тренера по футболу!!!!!-!!!!!-!!!!!-!!!!!-!!!!!-!*

[@Eric-cb7cq]

put on 1.25 speed and its normal speed

[@sids5681]

lol

[@miguelkhalil5226]

Sokolov tempo is perfect.

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

First movement, marked "Molto Allegro", is Larghetto asthmatico at best...

[@vadj65]

Сумасбродное сочинение. Я только сам слушаю, своим любимым не даю. Не нужно им это знать, пусть спиннер крутят.

[@zvezdinki7998]

Вадим Подщипков хахаха! Вот неожиданный комментарий!

[@salvatoremartella5397]

Troppo lento

[@user-gk6rx6in6m]

Большой пианист Григорий Соколов,но у него неправильная трактовка ,непонимание в первой и третьей части

[@amedeomarra8398]

Esiste e c'e' qualcosa di Beethoveniano, prima del grandissimo Ludwig van Beethoven; confermo quello che dico e scrivo. Dogo Argentino.