Mozart Piano Sonata No. 8 in a-minor KV 310, Grigory Sokolov

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  • Grigory Sokolov: Mozart Piano Sonata No. 8 in a-minor KV 310
    1. Allegro maestoso [0:00]
    2. Andante cantabile con espressione [8:33]
    3. Presto [19:09]
    This work was on his program from February until December 2012.
    From "Mozart's piano sonatas" by Paul and Eva Badura-Skoda (from the web site of Henle Verlag, www.henle.de):
    Mit der a-Moll-Sonate wird plötzlich ein Abgrund aufgerissen. Alfred Einstein dürfte recht gehabt haben, wenn er annahm, dass diese Sonate unter dem Eindruck des Todes der Mutter in Paris entstanden sein muss und wenn er damit die in dieser Sonate ausgedrückte Tragik erklärt.
    ERSTER SATZ Allegro maestoso ist der erste Satz überschrieben, und er beginnt auch mit einem wahrhaft majestätischen Thema. Früher galt ja der punktierte Rhythmus als Symbol des Majestätischen und wurde von Mozarts Zeitgenossen als solches verstanden. Die unerbittlich klopfenden Akkorde der orchestralen Begleitung freilich zeigen keine festliche, sondern viel eher eine dämonische, düstere Majestät: Ein ständiges Hin und Her zwischen Aufbäumen und Resignation oder Verzweiflung charakterisiert diesen ersten Satz. Die Vorschlagsnoten im 2. und 4. Takt des ersten Thema sind sicherlich jeweils „lang" zu nehmen. Anstelle eines zweiten Themas steht (ab Takt 23) [0:44] eine durchgehende Sechzehntel-Bewegung, der eine polyphonierende Zweistimmigkeit in der linken Hand ab Takt 28 [0:53] folgt. Die letzten fünf Takte der Exposition [1:24] bringen nochmals den punktierten Rhythmus des Hauptgedankens. In der Durchführung [3:07] bricht dann ein Sturm los, wie er nicht seinesgleichen hat, weder bei Mozart noch in der Klaviermusik seiner Zeit. Ganz ungewöhnlich ist dabei der vorgeschriebene dynamische Kontrast zwischen ff und pp und danach wieder ff, wie Mozart ihn für die drei Wellen der Durchführung vorzeichnete. Spezielle Beachtung verdienen zwei verminderte Septimenakkorde in Takt 126/127 [5:31], die in der Klassik-Epoche immer Ausdruck höchster Tragik und Erschütterung bedeuteten.
    ZWEITER SATZ Wunderbar ist dann der milde Trost, das ruhige „Schreiten der Grazien" im zweiten Satz dieser Sonate [5:47], ein Andante cantabile con espressione in F-Dur, das mit Würde zu spielen ist. Trotz einer lyrischen Grundstimmung vermittelt dieser ausdrucksvolle Satz etwas leidenschaftlich-Großartiges und ist somit weit entfernt von der warmen und graziösen Innigkeit anderer Mittelsätze in einer Dur-Tonart. Ein zweites Thema (ab Takt 15) [9:53] erinnert mit seinen Tonwiederholungen im Aufbau übrigens deutlich an das Seitenthema im zweiten Satz der Symphonie KV 201. Die großartige Steigerung in der Durchführung mit dem Höhepunkt in Takt 43-49 [15:10] erweckt natürlich Reminiszenzen an die Durchführung des ersten Satzes. Umso schöner ist dann die Rückkehr zum trostreichen Hauptthema und zur Reprise [16:00].
    DRITTER SATZ Der dritte Satz [19:07] führt wieder in die düstere Stimmung des ersten Satzes zurück, nur dass er anstelle der orchestralen Dramatik nur eine im presto-Tempo dahinhuschende schattenhafte Darstellung des tragischen Grundaffekts gibt. Anders als Beethoven kennt Mozart in den Finali seiner Moll-Sonaten und Symphonie nicht oder nur selten die Befreiung in strahlendes Dur, die Überwindung der Tragik durch die Freude. Schicksalshaft kehren die meisten seiner Moll-Stücke nach Dur-Episoden in die Stimmung des Anfangs zurück. So ist es auch hier. Dieser Presto-Satz ist eines der düstersten Stücke, die Mozart je geschrieben hat, mit einem merkwürdigen Wechsel von Aufbäumen und Verzweiflung. Nur einmal wird in diesem Satz eine subtil zarte, lichte Vision der Seligkeit in A-Dur, eine Fata Morgana, kurz sichtbar; danach kehrt die Stimmung der Verzweiflung und Resignation vom Anfang zurück. Trotzig und energisch schließt der Satz in a-Moll.
    The sheet music is freely available at imslp.org. This edition is Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1878 (public domain: free from copyrights).
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  • @pmcschultz
    @pmcschultz  4 года назад +107

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    On the day before her 30th birthday, she reflects on her life and gives some very good advice to people in their twenties.

  • @chopin4525
    @chopin4525 3 года назад +833

    The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
    ― Artur Schnabel

  • @davidofpiano423
    @davidofpiano423 5 месяцев назад +45

    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.

    • @ffelegal
      @ffelegal 5 месяцев назад +4

      Indeed, this pianist has one of the clearest articulations I've heard.

    • @monkeflip2510
      @monkeflip2510 4 месяца назад +5

      Indeed, the articolato sound is difficult af, and also the trills, in fact I found Mozart being more difficult than some Rachmaninoff ahahahah.

    • @AlfieTheProducer
      @AlfieTheProducer 3 месяца назад +2

      Exactly

    • @karoldettlaff5345
      @karoldettlaff5345 2 месяца назад

      For me only Gilels is better for Mozart and Beethoven

    • @amaliachr8661
      @amaliachr8661 Месяц назад +1

      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….

  • @davidmoset5012
    @davidmoset5012 6 лет назад +602

    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.

    • @user-st5re8ip7z
      @user-st5re8ip7z 5 лет назад +8

      That's because Jesus gave you some response

    • @caterscarrots3407
      @caterscarrots3407 5 лет назад +30

      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.

    • @eunsungkwon485
      @eunsungkwon485 5 лет назад +3

      Basically the same, so you were on the right track.
      *Bereavement*
      Loss of a family member.

    • @escopiliatese3623
      @escopiliatese3623 4 года назад +4

      Caters Carrots this is has nothing to do with the original comment, you obviously just wanted to show off useless trivia.

    • @sadhoe5258
      @sadhoe5258 4 года назад +18

      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 :)

  • @Fernando31611
    @Fernando31611 6 лет назад +24

    That Presto... no rushes, no false virtuosism, just pure A minor melodic joy!!!

  • @DeanDeBlock
    @DeanDeBlock 7 лет назад +305

    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

    • @gezaradai2958
      @gezaradai2958 6 лет назад +6

      the most precious

    • @shadowjuan2
      @shadowjuan2 6 лет назад +4

      Dean De Block I think it has only been 228 years since his death

    • @fernandopaxeco7709
      @fernandopaxeco7709 6 лет назад +2

      Dean De Block gay

    • @maxstuart9568
      @maxstuart9568 5 лет назад +1

      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.

    • @maxstuart9568
      @maxstuart9568 5 лет назад +2

      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

  • @romulo-mello
    @romulo-mello Год назад +41

    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)

    • @sergiogiudici6976
      @sergiogiudici6976 Год назад +4

      That progression is a tonal miracle. It could suggest the goal of 200 years of tonal taught was to ground that passage

    • @luytmiau1363
      @luytmiau1363 Год назад

      ​@@sergiogiudici6976 true

    • @dylanberger3924
      @dylanberger3924 3 месяца назад

      first mozart passage to make me cry lol. i appreciate your comment

  • @ffelegal
    @ffelegal 3 месяца назад +4

    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.

  • @meredith218461
    @meredith218461 5 месяцев назад +8

    Sokolov plays with crystalline clarity plus a fine control of dynamics.

  • @MusicMania248
    @MusicMania248 9 лет назад +728

    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.

    • @professordeportugadoyt113
      @professordeportugadoyt113 9 лет назад +2

      vaaai se fu der

    • @Leitilumo
      @Leitilumo 9 лет назад +35

      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.

    • @smughomersimpson1237
      @smughomersimpson1237 9 лет назад +8

      Leitilumo very well said. The second movement in particular is beautiful.

    • @seancloser
      @seancloser 6 лет назад +5

      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.

    • @sameash3153
      @sameash3153 6 лет назад +33

      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.

  • @didierschein8515
    @didierschein8515 2 года назад +42

    Der beste Mozart ist der Mozart vom Sturm und Drang.

  • @herpyderpy2869
    @herpyderpy2869 3 года назад +647

    There's a specialplace in hell for people who put ads in the middle of classical music smh

    • @carlozulueta5455
      @carlozulueta5455 3 года назад +28

      Read your comment and just got an ad lol

    • @Churchcantor
      @Churchcantor 3 года назад

      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...

    • @m0ment219
      @m0ment219 3 года назад +11

      Lucifer can and will confirm that.

    • @vikiez4911
      @vikiez4911 3 года назад +1

      Lmao

    • @vikiez4911
      @vikiez4911 3 года назад +2

      @@user-fu5bp3ep7q in RUclips app, you can't install ad blocks. They are only useful in browsers .

  • @victron6
    @victron6 6 лет назад +43

    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!

  • @playercembalo873
    @playercembalo873 9 лет назад +49

    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.

  • @jorgeaguirre7260
    @jorgeaguirre7260 7 лет назад +107

    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.

  • @georgeantonakis4151
    @georgeantonakis4151 4 месяца назад +4

    Thank you for being born, on this day, back in 1756. So indebted to you!

  • @maglinantmesothelioma
    @maglinantmesothelioma 7 лет назад +25

    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

  • @ffelegal
    @ffelegal 5 месяцев назад +7

    15:10 is one of my favorite parts. So much tension and beautiful harmony.

    • @floridasfinestproductions4651
      @floridasfinestproductions4651 Месяц назад +1

      I think Beethoven has something just like it in one of his sonatas forgot wich one though. Awsome part

  • @jeremygwynn
    @jeremygwynn 3 года назад +32

    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.

  • @stellamantikou4978
    @stellamantikou4978 4 года назад +49

    it is infuriating to have ads marking this masterpiece.

  • @enriquebonifacino9939
    @enriquebonifacino9939 3 года назад +40

    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.

    • @ffelegal
      @ffelegal 5 месяцев назад +1

      Nobody is a very big word.

    • @thestranger3833
      @thestranger3833 5 месяцев назад

      @@ffelegal Bach wasn't just nobody, so enriquebonifacino9939's sentence checks out.

  • @toddcollins3881
    @toddcollins3881 7 лет назад +30

    I just love the unexpected change starting at 16:37. If that isn't heartbreak I'm not sure what is.

  • @phen-themoogle7651
    @phen-themoogle7651 4 года назад +22

    I lost my Mozart sheet music book so I really appreciate this!

  • @eliogaviria04
    @eliogaviria04 6 лет назад +93

    I'm thirteen years old, and my teacher just gave me this piece, I'm so FREAKING EXCITED to start working on it!

    • @jugutierrez
      @jugutierrez 6 лет назад +2

      Alexandra's same 😆😆

    • @garan716
      @garan716 5 лет назад +1

      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.

    • @misoweli
      @misoweli 4 года назад +5

      I'm 17 and I've just been given it so.. I guess you're winning in life.

    • @Ivan_1791
      @Ivan_1791 4 года назад +3

      @@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...

    • @Assassunn
      @Assassunn 4 года назад +8

      I'm 23 years old and I'm practicing the 3rd movement, I'm the real loser here kids.

  • @memedreams8558
    @memedreams8558 5 лет назад +17

    I’m learning the first movement for an audition and it’s probably become one of my favorite Mozart pieces

  • @PaulHummerman
    @PaulHummerman 3 года назад +10

    Astonishing clarity. The first 2 movements are extraordinary, the last nothing short of miraculous.

  • @AlanAlexis013
    @AlanAlexis013 9 лет назад +92

    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.

    • @REpianist
      @REpianist 9 лет назад +2

      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.

    • @playercembalo873
      @playercembalo873 9 лет назад +1

      Totally agreed....feels like my heart is squeezing....

    • @sender1496
      @sender1496 7 лет назад +1

      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.

    • @luci_-ub9xx
      @luci_-ub9xx 7 лет назад +4

      I feel the same thing... Another part that make me feel instigated is in 16:42

    • @luci_-ub9xx
      @luci_-ub9xx 7 лет назад +4

      The dissonance too excite me, in 15:10

  • @user-fj5pm8zl6y
    @user-fj5pm8zl6y 5 месяцев назад +3

    Какой восхитительный,хрустально-прозрачный звук...

  • @kupomomo1712
    @kupomomo1712 8 лет назад +164

    The second movement won me the talent show in my high school. I am forever grateful.

    • @toothlesstoe
      @toothlesstoe 6 лет назад +17

      That's actually surprising.

    • @LocksVid
      @LocksVid 5 лет назад +4

      toothless toe exactly

    • @lucaamorosoofficial
      @lucaamorosoofficial 4 года назад +10

      We dont give a fuck about you

    • @leo17921
      @leo17921 4 года назад +2

      good job, even though the second movement is free

    • @NelsonFilmsStudio
      @NelsonFilmsStudio 4 года назад +5

      KuPoMoMo with a classical piece?! Whaaaaat!?

  • @DonFarshido
    @DonFarshido 3 года назад +61

    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.

    • @miguelisaurusbruh1158
      @miguelisaurusbruh1158 3 года назад +3

      So is this the most passionate and dramatic Motzart can get?
      uhm...
      ok...

    • @DonFarshido
      @DonFarshido 3 года назад +2

      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.

    • @FrostDirt
      @FrostDirt 3 года назад +2

      @@miguelisaurusbruh1158 it's subtle dramaticism, if you want an in-your-face dramatic Mozart, his minor key concertos are your to-go.

    • @miguelisaurusbruh1158
      @miguelisaurusbruh1158 3 года назад +3

      @@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

    • @ignacioclerici5341
      @ignacioclerici5341 2 года назад +4

      @@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

  • @millicentbystander5206
    @millicentbystander5206 2 года назад +6

    So much beauty here, and power, and melancholy.

  • @user-yg5qd8lz7q
    @user-yg5qd8lz7q Месяц назад +1

    Чем больше слушаю., тем сильнее эта музыка меня поражает. О, Господи! ❤❤❤

  • @burakunsal7499
    @burakunsal7499 3 года назад +50

    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

    • @psalm2764
      @psalm2764 2 года назад +2

      Beethoven copied Mozart. That is his fame and fortune.

    • @kwastormayt
      @kwastormayt 2 года назад

      @@psalm2764 and member of the great germany

    • @bedranhikmet5609
      @bedranhikmet5609 Год назад

      @@psalm2764 God l wish its not right

    • @psalm2764
      @psalm2764 Год назад

      @@bedranhikmet5609 It is though.

    • @psalm2764
      @psalm2764 Год назад

      @@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.

  • @kwastormayt
    @kwastormayt 7 лет назад +66

    14:16 - 14:45 - 15:10 one can just say: wow

  • @sarahblasi3441
    @sarahblasi3441 4 года назад +14

    Falta de respeito do RUclips colocar um anúncio bem no meio do movimento! Belíssima interpretação, uma das melhores dessa sonata maravilhosa de Mozart.

  • @obrcht
    @obrcht 10 лет назад +16

    He preforms with the crisp elegance and verve as I understand Mozart.

  • @aaronjorgefridman5662
    @aaronjorgefridman5662 3 года назад +25

    Mozart es inmortal. Esta brillante versión lo pone de relieve

  • @polgomezriquelme7505
    @polgomezriquelme7505 9 лет назад +41

    The second movement is so good.

  • @TheMadisonHang
    @TheMadisonHang 3 года назад +3

    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

  • @Metadeth1997
    @Metadeth1997 7 лет назад +194

    15:10 sad beyond words

    • @musik350
      @musik350 3 года назад +1

      How?

    • @Metadeth1997
      @Metadeth1997 3 года назад +1

      @@musik350 Unless you are born without hearing you can hear that its a sad part

    • @musik350
      @musik350 3 года назад +1

      @@Metadeth1997 Then I'm apparently deaf, thanks for your diagnosis.

    • @Metadeth1997
      @Metadeth1997 3 года назад +1

      @@musik350 Apparently

  • @dimaborisovsky3410
    @dimaborisovsky3410 5 лет назад +12

    This remarkable performance also requires to to be learned, listening over and over to discover Mozart's and Sokolov's ideas!

  • @Walter50
    @Walter50 11 лет назад +11

    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!

  • @sameash3153
    @sameash3153 6 лет назад +5

    The second movement might be the most beautiful thing I have ever heard from Mozart.

  • @allegroconfuoco6
    @allegroconfuoco6 14 дней назад +3

    the second movement is so sincere

  • @irishmanonthecan
    @irishmanonthecan 8 лет назад +23

    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.

  • @eddiezhi5190
    @eddiezhi5190 6 лет назад +5

    At this piece, this is best interpretation I have heard! Listen to how every not is as clear as crystal! Brava!!!!

  • @hoodpianogirl
    @hoodpianogirl Год назад +3

    Just started studying this and I feel like crying…

  • @ekklesiast
    @ekklesiast 2 года назад +19

    19:10 Does anyone notice Presto sounds very much like Beethoven's Pathetique sonata 3rd movement?

    • @sabersalsh1200
      @sabersalsh1200 2 месяца назад

      Yes! And both this and the Pathetique were the 8th piano sonata that each had composed.

  • @cnqso
    @cnqso 8 месяцев назад +4

    Mozart was such a genius! Incredible :)

    • @user-yg5qd8lz7q
      @user-yg5qd8lz7q Месяц назад +1

      Я думаю, что Моцарт~ посланец Бога на Земле!

  • @Radian1978
    @Radian1978 4 года назад +10

    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.

  • @juanriano9018
    @juanriano9018 5 лет назад +3

    This is so beautiful.
    I had been searching it for a long time.

  • @user-yg5qd8lz7q
    @user-yg5qd8lz7q Месяц назад

    Музыка~ божественна! Исполнение~божественно! БРАВО, МОЦАРТ! БРАВО, МАЭСТРО! Лучшее исполнение! Восторг и восхищение! ❤

  • @Alaedious
    @Alaedious Год назад +2

    The sonata sweeps one directly into its enthralling beauty, lightness, and intensity. 🥰😍

  • @user-ff4fd2wr3w
    @user-ff4fd2wr3w 4 года назад +10

    악보를 보면서 들으니.
    더욱더 귀에 잘 들어오고
    신이 납니다

    • @same666xxx
      @same666xxx 4 месяца назад +1

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  • @paolobiondi1378
    @paolobiondi1378 4 года назад +3

    La migliore esecuzione che ho sentito! Ricerca timbrica eccezionale!

  • @esraokan
    @esraokan 22 дня назад +2

    Sokolov is the best (for me) interpreter of this piece

  • @mikejr41387
    @mikejr41387 8 лет назад +3

    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.

    • @daniele8716
      @daniele8716 8 лет назад

      +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.

    • @mikejr41387
      @mikejr41387 8 лет назад

      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?

    • @daniele8716
      @daniele8716 8 лет назад

      +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.

  • @jasontimmanov3351
    @jasontimmanov3351 3 года назад +43

    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.

    • @pjimenez08
      @pjimenez08 3 года назад +8

      Use an adblocker, for god sake..

    • @dareen93mt98
      @dareen93mt98 3 года назад +1

      ​@@leesiheon8013 Well it's not going to Sokolov actually. The algorithm decided it's played by 6 other pianists.

    • @Benjamin-ml7sv
      @Benjamin-ml7sv 3 года назад

      @@leesiheon8013 But not in the middle of a song, I mean you can but as much as you want at the beginning.

    • @leesiheon8013
      @leesiheon8013 3 года назад

      @@Benjamin-ml7sv I mean, nothing is perfect, is it? Ideally, there would be ads in the beginning, between movements, and the end (and RUclips 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 RUclips (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.

    • @leesiheon8013
      @leesiheon8013 3 года назад

      To add to my argument, if RUclips did not classify this performance as Sokolov's, it probably means that the music distributor holding a contract with Sokolov did not provide RUclips with a reference recording and did not try to claim this recording for themselves explicitly regarding RUclips. (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 RUclips's copyright system but let me ask you this: is it possible for RUclips 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 RUclips's copyright system if you want to watch it: m.ruclips.net/video/1Jwo5qc78QU/видео.html
      (I'm not particularly trying to praise RUclips here-I don't have RUclips Red because I do not want to give more money to RUclips 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 RUclips creators regarding the posting of copyrighted material.)

  • @nervenerd
    @nervenerd 3 года назад +3

    truly amazing sonata written at the age of 22. The finale goes like a tragic rocket.

  • @berrntortner6801
    @berrntortner6801 8 лет назад +2

    Exellent playing. I have no words.

  • @claireli-schall3389
    @claireli-schall3389 9 лет назад +2

    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 *_*

  • @johannsebastienbach
    @johannsebastienbach 4 года назад +6

    One word. Masterpiece

  • @lehten
    @lehten 3 года назад +10

    0:00 -1
    8:37 -2
    19:10 -3

  • @rnnyhoff
    @rnnyhoff 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you for posting, a five-year belated kudos to your fine RUclips post "pmc schultz", this wonderful performance with the matching score. It really adds to the enjoyment of this gift to humankind.

  • @xunbaoduan8544
    @xunbaoduan8544 8 лет назад +3

    I finished leaning the piece, but the precision and cleanness is just unbelievable

  • @MrGer2295
    @MrGer2295 7 лет назад +4

    Beautiful piano playing ! Thanks for posting :)

  • @GUIM1797
    @GUIM1797 5 лет назад +15

    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!

    • @tavmata
      @tavmata 5 лет назад

      Wow, whats is A- ? It's Am ?

    • @oldbird4601
      @oldbird4601 2 года назад

      Can anyone timestamp this?

    • @tanmayee3066
      @tanmayee3066 2 года назад

      @@tavmata A minor can also be notated as A-

    • @alessbritish228
      @alessbritish228 Год назад

      @@tanmayee3066 man, music theory is so confusing, help me pls

  • @robertbairdmusic
    @robertbairdmusic 3 года назад +2

    Beautiful - thanks so much for sharing!

  • @sandatoacsen9858
    @sandatoacsen9858 Год назад +2

    Stupendo,.. meraviglioso !!! 🎶💞💖

  • @Ivan_1791
    @Ivan_1791 5 лет назад +13

    4:20 My heart...

  • @dunhlee7288
    @dunhlee7288 7 лет назад +231

    4:20 Mozart did it before Dr. Dre

    • @user-xk3hq1le1d
      @user-xk3hq1le1d 7 лет назад +7

      Dunh Lee hehe nice ear bro

    • @harryrees627
      @harryrees627 5 лет назад +49

      Dunh Lee haha! And the time is 4:20 as well 😂

    • @colebernstein9954
      @colebernstein9954 5 лет назад +1

      @@oi.meunomeejaorampvp5846 Jesus calm down. he's just pointing out that the arpeggios sound similar to those in Still Dre

    • @nestininolearning
      @nestininolearning 5 лет назад +2

      Hahahaha

    • @nadiaboulanger9323
      @nadiaboulanger9323 5 лет назад +3

      Also, if you slow down the first RH figure in K. 332, you get the riff for "Flashlight" by Parliament. George Clinton stole it.

  • @else528
    @else528 11 месяцев назад +2

    absolutely beautiful and wonderfully played 🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺👏

  • @TimondeNood
    @TimondeNood 6 лет назад +2

    Truly a great work of art!

  • @sousafan100
    @sousafan100 6 лет назад +13

    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...

  • @tube4beno
    @tube4beno 2 года назад +5

    Genius .... expecially so beautiful from 3:22 to 4:04 !!

  • @snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454
    @snowcarriagechengcheng-hun3454 7 лет назад +1

    Thanks for uploading!

  • @KV4671
    @KV4671 9 лет назад +2

    Mozart weet altijd met de simpelste middelen het grootste effect te bereiken.

  • @luisseven7
    @luisseven7 3 года назад +8

    was vibin 2 this and then an ad started playing... wtf

  • @user-ue5tv2gx3j
    @user-ue5tv2gx3j 5 лет назад +3

    oh..is builtbar!! Great.I Playthepiano
    I love the piano

  • @dhanirivai
    @dhanirivai Год назад +2

    I love his interpretation ❤️

  • @user-yg5qd8lz7q
    @user-yg5qd8lz7q Месяц назад

    Одна из самых красивейших сонат. Моцарт прекрасен!.. ❤

  • @emiracle2231
    @emiracle2231 3 года назад +16

    4:20 the guy who always turns everything to still dre

    • @alexyu8951
      @alexyu8951 3 года назад +1

      ik ur joking but just wanted to say that this was created hundreds of years before still dre

    • @Souls_p_
      @Souls_p_ 2 года назад +8

      @@alexyu8951 I know you're just being pedantic but it's pretty obvious it was. Mozart didn't just release a hot new single.

  • @matthewvarney6214
    @matthewvarney6214 4 года назад +3

    This piece is magnificent

  • @aerous1275
    @aerous1275 5 лет назад +1

    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!!

    • @TheMightyFork_
      @TheMightyFork_ 5 лет назад +1

      Piece not song. Song is something else.

    • @bnatrual
      @bnatrual Год назад

      @@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.)

  • @user-li4tp7et2v
    @user-li4tp7et2v 7 лет назад +1

    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。

  • @jimamydemp
    @jimamydemp 6 лет назад +115

    The influence of J.S. Bach in the first movement is prevalent.

    • @SpaghettiToaster
      @SpaghettiToaster 4 года назад +15

      How? It doesn't sound like Bach at all.

    • @jamesrockybullin5250
      @jamesrockybullin5250 4 года назад +33

      @@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: ruclips.net/video/61Hn85VU7d0/видео.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!

    • @elaineblackhurst1509
      @elaineblackhurst1509 4 года назад +32

      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.

    • @jamesrockybullin5250
      @jamesrockybullin5250 4 года назад +16

      @@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.

    • @egmcdonald4790
      @egmcdonald4790 4 года назад +8

      @@elaineblackhurst1509 Perhaps the influence was indirect? Essentially all the music Mozart would have been exposed to during his lifetime was influenced by Bach.

  • @ViolaRrecaj-ie5gc
    @ViolaRrecaj-ie5gc 3 года назад +3

    On the reptition of the second part (1st movement) he changes the dinamics..I find that cool!!

  • @PrismaPog_17
    @PrismaPog_17 Месяц назад +2

    4:21-4:38 Nobody does these kinds of things other than Mozart

    • @zeynzeyna
      @zeynzeyna Месяц назад

      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.

  • @curaticac5391
    @curaticac5391 6 лет назад +2

    Wonderful rendition!

  • @Bruce88keys
    @Bruce88keys 9 лет назад +11

    He creates a special atmosphere

  • @raymondgibson1906
    @raymondgibson1906 9 лет назад +3

    A fine, intelligent interpretation.

  • @user-yg5qd8lz7q
    @user-yg5qd8lz7q Месяц назад

    Как же прекрасна эта Музыка!!! ❤

  • @acevaptsarov8410
    @acevaptsarov8410 Год назад +1

    Totally mesmerizing piece!

  • @imnegan7275
    @imnegan7275 8 лет назад +11

    so cool that you put the note sheet in the video. its awesome to follow the notes. although im not very good at piano i can read the notes

  • @annabellshea7954
    @annabellshea7954 2 года назад +6

    I Play it but I'm 14. This is such a beautiful sonate!

    • @Ksgskshs
      @Ksgskshs Год назад +1

      Im 15 and I play it too. Its one of the best pieces I've ever taken, its so beautiful.

    • @annabellshea7954
      @annabellshea7954 Год назад

      @@Ksgskshs I agree with you

    • @Dylonely42
      @Dylonely42 Год назад +4

      I’m 16 and I do nothing. Beautiful indeed

  • @albertgrayalbertcgray2009
    @albertgrayalbertcgray2009 6 лет назад +2

    Such con espressione! The best on a difficult piece!

  • @hoodpianogirl
    @hoodpianogirl 5 месяцев назад +1

    Studying this at the moment, gorgeous piece and the 2nd movement actually sounds harder than it sounds!

  • @angelahsiao9527
    @angelahsiao9527 8 лет назад +6

    Sokolov, how come I've just discovered you! You put all the contemporary piano virtuosos to shame!You've recovered the music of Beethoven and Mozart to their original form and intent --- such clarity and logic of expression!Absolutely brilliant!Angela Lai

    • @curaticac5391
      @curaticac5391 6 лет назад

      And not only the contemporary :-) ... .

  • @zlognorpbrimbio4252
    @zlognorpbrimbio4252 7 лет назад +3

    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.

    • @user-il8ne5qb7v
      @user-il8ne5qb7v Год назад

      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.

  • @suuri_toukeigaku_channel
    @suuri_toukeigaku_channel 5 лет назад +1

    Cool piece!! I love it!!