He didn't only write it shortly after she died. He has written it a few seconds after he saw his mother lying dead in the room next to his piano in Paris. And so he sat down and wrote this...
gets better and better as it delves deeper: a fantastic piece of music whose technical composition is brilliance itself; but it is far more than that, a baring of heart and soul, with such a reflective tone, entwined with surges of unleashed emotion, a fury of spirit, expressed through sublime melody, elegance of cadence, superb ascending, assaulting chords.
+Mohammad Reza Rahimi I cant say whats his best because he composed so much beautiful works, but its one of my favourites too. I love this slow movement. They say this sonata was composed when his mother died. You can hear it in my opinion.
I also have a deep love for Mozarts piano sonatas. Hard to choose the favourite one. This A minor sonate is definately one of my favourites. Thank the pianist for this wonderful performance. Excellent work. Bravo.
If you go to mozart-archiv.de, and then go to "SYSTEM GRUPPE -1-" for .wma or "SYSTEM GRUPPE -5-" for .mp3 and find the music you want, you should be able to listen to it in your browser with the QuickTime plugin, or you could right-click and choose "save target/link as..." to download.
People complaining about the dislikes. Every video has dislikes, there are just people who hate on everything. It would've been weird if there were no dislikes.
One of the most beautiful of Wolfgang works portraying his self struggle against the odds and mediocrity in life other ex are his 20 piano conc and 40 symph.
he didn't die homeless but yes, he died ill but , again , no , not because nobody liked his music but because he didn't know how to spend his money correctly . his operas always were a great success for example.
Mozart wrote this sonata for his mother who passed away the time he wrote it. I think you can hear his feelings the best in the second movement. Here's a letter he wrote about the death of his mother: Allerbester Freund! Für Sie ganz allein. Trauern Sie mit mir, mein Freund! Dies war der traurigste Tag in meinem Leben, dies schreibe ich um zwei Uhr nachts. Ich muß es Ihnen doch sagen: meine Mutter, meine liebe Mutter ist nicht mehr! Gott hat sie zu sich berufen; er wollte sie haben, das sahe ich klar, mithin habe ich mich in Willen Gottes gegeben. Er hatte sie mir gegeben, er konnte sie mir auch nehmen. Stellen Sie sich nur alle meine Unruhe, Ängsten und Sorgen vor, die ich diese vierzehn Täge ausgestanden habe. Sie starb, ohne daß sie etwas von sich wußte, löschte aus wie ein Licht. Sie hat drei Täge vorhet gebeichtet, ist kommuniziert worden und hat die heilige Ölung bekommen. Die letzten drei Täge aber phantasierte sie beständig, und heut aber um fünf Uhr einundzwanzig Minuten griff sie in Zügen, verlor allsogleich darbei alle Empfindung und alle Sinne. Ich druckte ihr die Hand, redete sie an, sie sahe mich aber nicht, hörte mich nicht und empfand nichts. So lag sie bis sie verschied, nämlich in fünf Stunden, um zehn Uhr einundzwanzig Minuten abends. Es war niemand darbei als ich, ein guter Freund von uns (den mein Vater kennt), Herr Heina, und die Wächterin. Die ganze Krankheit kann ich Ihnen heute ohnmöglich schreiben; ich bin der Meinung, daß sie hat sterben müssen; Gott hat es so haben wollen. Ich bitte Sie unterdessen um nichts als um das Freundstück, daß sie meinen armen Vater ganz sachte zu dieser traurigen Nachricht bereiten. Ich habe ihm mit der nämlichen Post geschrieben, aber nur, daß sie schwer krank ist, warte dann nur auf eine Antwort, damit ich mich darnach richten kann. Gott gebe ihm Stärke und Mut! Mein Freund! ich bin nicht itzt, sondern schon lange her getröstet. Ich habe aus besonderer Gnade Gottes alles mit Standhaftigkeit und Gelassenheit übertragen. Wie es so gefährlich wurde, so bat ich Gott nur um zwei Dinge, nämlich um eine glückliche Sterbstunde für meine Mutter und dann für mich um Stärke und Mut, und der gütige Gott hat mich erhört und mir die zwei Gnaden im größten Maße verliehen. Ich bitte Sie also, bester Freund, erhalten Sie mir meinen Vater, sprechen Sie ihm Mut zu, daß er es sich nicht gar zu schwer und hart nimmt, wenn er das Ärgste erst hören wird. Meine Schwester empfehle ich Ihnen auch von ganzem Herzen. Gehen Sie doch gleich hinaus zu ihnen, ich bitte Sie, sagen Sie ihnen noch nichts, daß sie tot ist, sondern präparieren Sie sie nur so dazu. Tun Sie, was Sie wollen, wenden Sie alles an, machen Sie nur, daß ich ruhig sein kann und daß ich nicht etwa ein anderes Unglück noch zu erwarten habe. Erhalten Sie mir meinen lieben Vater und meine liebe Schwester! Geben Sie mir gleich Antwort, ich bitte Sie. Adieu, ich bin Dero gehorsamster, dankbarster Diener Wolfgang Amadé Mozart.
I thought mozart's mother died in a hotel room in Germany when she accompanied her son. He new she was very ill but went to party after the performance and when he came back his mother was already dead. Have I got this wrong. I am sure I read it somewhere.
Kristen, if you look at Britain or anywhere, the girls started to go wild about a band with two boys aged 7 and 10, saying "bars and melody are the best! The instrumental of classical music in Europe... Who cares about that dumb old music?! We have no feelings towards that generation!
Kristen, even worse: they want to show off their singing in music is better than classical musicians! I said "Europe is famous for classical music, why are you born there then?!" They said "we know it is famous! But you're wrong!"
It's all gotta do with the stupid generation of the bad reputation in music which they never show the feelings or emotions in the music. Some pop songs for example "My Heart Will Go On" has very emotional feelings. And some movie soundtrack like Harry Potter has those too.
yep, true, i used to like all piece a semi tone higher too 'cause it sounds brighter and more playful, but for some reason now i like it a semi tone lower best... simply personal taste
...RUclips doesnt do that, the dumbass user did it without thinking it. An orchestra likely is not going to demand this be taken down for copyright infringement. Y Who ever played this, you do them a disservice and if Mozart were alive, youd contribute to his poverty.
@@addisontran4308 I think there's another site or recording of this that set copywrite claims. It does the same with the Schubert Serenade (Rousseau's channel).
Amazing peace obvioulsy' and a very good preformance of it. But for some reason the whole peace is preformed a half step above the scale that it was written in. meaning in B flat minor for the first and third movements and g flat majoe for the second. mysterious...
It may be possible that the sound was somehow pitched higher through a sound editing program by the uploader to prevent the video from being taken down for copyright protection purposes of the pianist...you think?
Well he composed it on his way from France to Wien. He went to France to become famous and to get students but it didn´t work that´s why he went back and his mother died also in France so he has to travel with his dead mother´s body to Wien. And in this time he composed this sonata.
Am I the only person who noticed that this version's soundtrack is defininetly not in a minor XD The first note (quarter) you hear is an F XD This version is shifted a half tone higher
a little sad, depend on you but the mood in 1st mov, imp, is mostly raging in middle section, 2nd is calm but there are intense moment like at around 14:40, it almost like heart wrenching, you can feel the emotional pain in that little section (at least i do) and 3rd is just confusing, almost out of order and bizarre, and it sounds so...quick? like it keeps changing so fast, you can barely keep up and it also ends abruptly, almost like it's implying his mother died too quickly and suddenly
youtube isnt the place to show off, it was altered on purpose to avoid automatic audio recognition of this piece so it wouldnt be removed for copyright purposes, which some people fear. do you honestly think people play the same piece a half step higher? lol
ah ok. i just red that at the time of mozart the A was not 440Hz at all. It was at 421Hz. But thanks for the info. :) Didn't know that anybody has the rights for so old music. I thought mozart, beethoven and all those guys are free to be played
sometimes i wonder how it would sound if you could hear mozart himself playing piano. Maybe nobody can sound like him as nobody can sound like Jimi Hendrix for example. :-o
actually i dont think it would be THAT different. Of course he would be skilled, but I wouldnt expect him playing much better than any pro pianist nowadays
Yes it can, people are different. I can show you A LOT of masterpieces that would most probably bore you to death(I'm assuming you're not musically educated). You can dislike whatever the hell you want, because in the end it's all subjective. However. you can still appreciate and value something even if you dislike it.
I personally dislike Gould's interpretation of this piece. Being a huge Gould fan myself; I somehow feel he tried to approach Mozart the same way he did Bach. He is often criticised over his recording of the sonatas because of this.
Luke Collins I would agree. Gould does approach Mozart as he does Bach, although I think that's why I enjoy it. Being an equal admirer of Bach and Mozart, I like the melody played in a strong striding manner like a fugue...sometimes.
![Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331 [complete] (Alla Turca)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/x7Pd2OqxfnU/mqdefault.jpg)
![Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331 [complete] (Alla Turca)](/img/tr.png)
![Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 15 in F, K. 533 / K. 494 [complete]](/img/1.gif)
00:00 - Allegro maestoso, common time
08:09 - Andante cantabile con espressione, F major, 3/4
18:47 - Presto, 2/4
+Or Ron: thx for this
Thankyou
I really do love Mozart !
his pieces are very ...... not a word can describe beauty of his piece
Mozart wrote this shortly after his mother's death. The agony is so apparent is this heart-wrenching passage of the 2nd movement 14:40
He didn't only write it shortly after she died. He has written it a few seconds after he saw his mother lying dead in the room next to his piano in Paris. And so he sat down and wrote this...
yes that 14.40,.... sometimes I am afraid to hear it.....
c.g. Marseille thumping pain, dolore martellante
Thanks Anna
I feel that from 14:15 he is trying to tell to himself its all right don't lose courage but it the end it all falls down..
It really is a crime, literally and figuratively, not to credit the pianist for this beautiful performance.
Amazing. My spirit gets lifted up. I want to play this to God when I get to heaven.
Then worship him the right way
gets better and better as it delves deeper: a fantastic piece of music whose technical composition is brilliance itself; but it is far more than that, a baring of heart and soul, with such a reflective tone, entwined with surges of unleashed emotion, a fury of spirit, expressed through sublime melody, elegance of cadence, superb ascending, assaulting chords.
the most beautiful sonata among all other sonata of Mozart which is very unique cause is composed in minor and cause it is passionate.
+Mohammad Reza Rahimi I cant say whats his best because he composed so much beautiful works, but its one of my favourites too. I love this slow movement. They say this sonata was composed when his mother died. You can hear it in my opinion.
I also have a deep love for Mozarts piano sonatas. Hard to choose the favourite one. This A minor sonate is definately one of my favourites. Thank the pianist for this wonderful performance. Excellent work. Bravo.
i think that dislikes could be among other things, that this isnt the most expressive version of this sonata. :/ love mozart
Happy Birthday tomorrow, Herr Mozart. You are more popular today than when you were alive.Also more revered.
I know nothing about piano, all I know is that its sound brings me great joy.
Super Wolferl !!! I ❤️ you !!!
Mozart really loved his mother.
If you go to mozart-archiv.de, and then go to "SYSTEM GRUPPE -1-" for .wma or "SYSTEM GRUPPE -5-" for .mp3 and find the music you want, you should be able to listen to it in your browser with the QuickTime plugin, or you could right-click and choose "save target/link as..." to download.
I have no idea who this is, but it is played with sensitivity, style and taste.
The performer is Mitsuko Uchida.
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슬픈곡이고 어럽지만 곡의 깊이가 너무깊고 모짜르트 피아노 소나타중 가장 좋은것 같습니다.
People complaining about the dislikes. Every video has dislikes, there are just people who hate on everything. It would've been weird if there were no dislikes.
14:15 and for the next 1 minute mozart's sorrow agony for his mother's death at its peak
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The eerie sadness of this piece really brings out Mozart's sorrow - sounds like it could almost have been written by early Beethoven.
One of the most beautiful of Wolfgang works portraying his self struggle against the odds and mediocrity in life other ex are his 20 piano conc and 40 symph.
I can only imagine Mozart playing this piece in front of a king!
¡Espectacular!
Adoro Mozart! Muito muito! 💕
beautiful
what a beautiful entry
Good song love the first movement! Sounds like it may have been played on a bright piano....
Wait a minute.... why doesn't youtube have a LOVE button!???
Maybe the best interpretation of this sonata in youtube, good style with great taste... but who is the pianist?
王品文 why is it wrong for someone to want to know who the performer is tf?
If you want the correct pitch then you'll have to buy the CD! It is of the complete set of Mozart sonatas played by Mitsuko Uchida
don't need to.. I can change the pitch myself
I thought you said Uchiha fucking sharingan
he didn't die homeless but yes, he died ill but , again , no , not because nobody liked his music but because he didn't know how to spend his money correctly . his operas always were a great success for example.
3:03 to 3:39 is really intense to play ngl
Mozart wrote this sonata for his mother who passed away the time he wrote it.
I think you can hear his feelings the best in the second movement.
Here's a letter he wrote about the death of his mother:
Allerbester Freund!
Für Sie ganz allein.
Trauern Sie mit mir, mein Freund! Dies war der traurigste Tag
in meinem Leben, dies schreibe ich um zwei Uhr nachts. Ich muß es Ihnen
doch sagen: meine Mutter, meine liebe Mutter ist nicht mehr! Gott hat
sie zu sich berufen; er wollte sie haben, das sahe ich klar, mithin habe
ich mich in Willen Gottes gegeben. Er hatte sie mir gegeben, er konnte
sie mir auch nehmen. Stellen Sie sich nur alle meine Unruhe, Ängsten und
Sorgen vor, die ich diese vierzehn Täge ausgestanden habe. Sie starb,
ohne daß sie etwas von sich wußte, löschte aus wie ein Licht. Sie hat
drei Täge vorhet gebeichtet, ist kommuniziert worden und hat die heilige
Ölung bekommen. Die letzten drei Täge aber phantasierte sie beständig,
und heut aber um fünf Uhr einundzwanzig Minuten griff sie in Zügen,
verlor allsogleich darbei alle Empfindung und alle Sinne. Ich druckte
ihr die Hand, redete sie an, sie sahe mich aber nicht, hörte mich nicht
und empfand nichts. So lag sie bis sie verschied, nämlich in fünf
Stunden, um zehn
Uhr einundzwanzig Minuten abends. Es war niemand darbei als ich, ein
guter Freund von uns (den mein Vater kennt), Herr Heina, und die
Wächterin. Die ganze Krankheit kann ich Ihnen heute ohnmöglich
schreiben; ich bin der Meinung, daß sie hat sterben müssen; Gott hat es
so haben wollen. Ich bitte Sie unterdessen um nichts als um das
Freundstück, daß sie meinen armen Vater ganz sachte zu dieser traurigen
Nachricht bereiten. Ich habe ihm mit der nämlichen Post geschrieben,
aber nur, daß sie schwer krank ist, warte dann nur auf eine Antwort,
damit ich mich darnach richten kann. Gott gebe ihm Stärke und Mut! Mein
Freund! ich bin nicht itzt, sondern schon lange her getröstet. Ich habe
aus besonderer Gnade Gottes alles mit Standhaftigkeit und Gelassenheit
übertragen. Wie es so gefährlich wurde, so bat ich Gott nur um zwei
Dinge, nämlich um eine glückliche Sterbstunde für meine Mutter und dann
für mich um Stärke und Mut, und der gütige Gott hat mich erhört und mir
die zwei Gnaden im größten Maße verliehen.
Ich bitte Sie also, bester Freund, erhalten Sie mir meinen
Vater, sprechen Sie ihm Mut zu, daß er es sich nicht gar zu schwer und
hart nimmt, wenn er das Ärgste erst hören wird. Meine Schwester empfehle
ich Ihnen auch von ganzem Herzen. Gehen Sie doch gleich hinaus zu
ihnen, ich bitte Sie, sagen Sie ihnen noch nichts, daß sie tot ist,
sondern präparieren Sie sie nur so dazu. Tun Sie, was Sie wollen, wenden
Sie alles an, machen Sie nur, daß ich ruhig sein kann und daß ich nicht
etwa ein anderes Unglück noch zu erwarten habe. Erhalten Sie mir meinen
lieben Vater und meine liebe Schwester! Geben Sie mir gleich Antwort,
ich bitte Sie. Adieu, ich bin Dero gehorsamster, dankbarster Diener
Wolfgang Amadé Mozart.
Is that a joke that you suppose most people dont speak German?
I thought mozart's mother died in a hotel room in Germany when she accompanied her son. He new she was very ill but went to party after the performance and when he came back his mother was already dead. Have I got this wrong. I am sure I read it somewhere.
mozart wrote this right after his mother died, u can hear the passion and his love for her in the piece
6:23 that scaling and then back...
Hello
Mozart's best work is in minor.
i don't think so...listen to the n.11 in a major
I had a music instructor who always said that "g minor is his serious key"
D minor was his geniusness. Requim, and no 20. Those are his 2 most serious pieces imo
mitch no bitch
I agree
Great Sonata
Belíssimo!!!
The best ever. But why is whitten above that the person who posted it, didn't know the artist?
18:46⚠️ best moment
It's called the 3rd movement
74 dislikes !! how stupid are people hwo cant enjoy mozart's sonata...
Salimk Chahinek well it's out of tune, but frankly I like it more this way
the are afraid of it I think
For me only this piece is good from mozart :o but it's my opinion
37 dislikes on this piece?! Why can't these people get the idea on how emotional this piano sonata is?
KRISTEN KIM i dont get it either. this generation is gone totally bizarre!
Kristen, if you look at Britain or anywhere, the girls started to go wild about a band with two boys aged 7 and 10, saying "bars and melody are the best! The instrumental of classical music in Europe... Who cares about that dumb old music?! We have no feelings towards that generation!
Kristen, even worse: they want to show off their singing in music is better than classical musicians! I said "Europe is famous for classical music, why are you born there then?!" They said "we know it is famous! But you're wrong!"
They're so out of tune. I saw this girl sang with a guy and this guy is disgusting. He never understands the generation of the music....
It's all gotta do with the stupid generation of the bad reputation in music which they never show the feelings or emotions in the music. Some pop songs for example "My Heart Will Go On" has very emotional feelings. And some movie soundtrack like Harry Potter has those too.
such a amazing song ;)
So amazing
Happy 258`th birthday , Immortal one !
LOL:
yep, true, i used to like all piece a semi tone higher too 'cause it sounds brighter and more playful, but for some reason now i like it a semi tone lower best... simply personal taste
The 2nd movement had my tears, though this is not the correct pitch, it’s still one of the best sonatas
It isn't played in a minor, cause stupid youtube copyright :(
...RUclips doesnt do that, the dumbass user did it without thinking it. An orchestra likely is not going to demand this be taken down for copyright infringement. Y
Who ever played this, you do them a disservice and if Mozart were alive, youd contribute to his poverty.
Isn't this Mozart dude dead? wtf
@@addisontran4308 I think there's another site or recording of this that set copywrite claims. It does the same with the Schubert Serenade (Rousseau's channel).
It's pitched an half tone higher, not in A minor
+Wilfried Berk I am quite certain this is pitched less then a half tone apart from the standart. Double checked it with software aswell
This piece is more beautiful than hot chicks
No it isnt.
Erlend maaaaaybe
Exactly right!!
@@ryanjames4168 Yes it is.
@@mlx870 Nah it isnt.
Mozart played moonlight sonata's 3rd movement before it was cool.
I'm adicted to the first 6 or 7 minutes.
8 minutes
+Fruehlingsrolle Rico I'm addicted to the last movement, fantastic
But the first two are excellent too
The first movement is quite wonderful isn’t
I’m addicted to the whole sonata😍
All of Am4d3us M0z4rt's videos are raised a bit to avoid copyrights.
Ay, same pfp
movement 2 8:07 movement 3 18:44
Amazing peace obvioulsy' and a very good preformance of it. But for some reason the whole peace is preformed a half step above the scale that it was written in. meaning in B flat minor for the first and third movements and g flat majoe for the second.
mysterious...
It may be possible that the sound was somehow pitched higher through a sound editing program by the uploader to prevent the video from being taken down for copyright protection purposes of the pianist...you think?
Stav Goldberg The modern day piano is a half step lower that it was when Mozart wrote it so modern day Bb is Mozart a minor
It is hightened for copyright issues. Nevertheless, it sounds good in a specific way.
damn , who is playing ? realy nice rendition !
Well he composed it on his way from France to Wien. He went to France to become famous and to get students but it didn´t work that´s why he went back and his mother died also in France so he has to travel with his dead mother´s body to Wien. And in this time he composed this sonata.
Excellent version, Am4d3usM0z4rt, thanks for posting it. But please, who is the pianist? Brendel, maybe?
It is Mozart
하헌경 Made my day :"D
Beautiful song !!👍👍💕💖
Good job Mozart 😂😅
It's not a Song you twat
Am I the only person who noticed that this version's soundtrack is defininetly not in a minor XD The first note (quarter) you hear is an F XD This version is shifted a half tone higher
Poor mozar
Rip mozart and his loved mother💔💔
Why poor Mozart? Mozart is like one of the best geniuses classical composers of all time. Maybe because he only lived 35 years...
why the fuck not ? Mozart's music's so mainstream...but i can't stop listening to it.
Too nice. If one is arrogant enough to say he/she is the second Mozart, then it's ok to offend.
Zero unlikes, as it should be.
This isn't played in A
True !!
FlameOfDust Yuury It's in B flat :P
Written in A, played in A on the piano, audio we hear sounds not so much. Thanks for showing off your basic hearing skills!
John Duffy I realized that when I heard it, The modern day pianos have gone down half a step so modern Bb minor is Mozart time A,
Makes sense! I used to own a harpsicord, so I ought to have had that same thought :-)
beautiful music!! :D i wish i can play like this but i can only play easier sonatinas with three movements
it's really rare for Mozart to use a minor key, is this preformed by the claverchord?
gottta learn this even if it takes me more than a year >____
LMFAO!!
this remember me very much Andràs Schiff
a little sad, depend on you but the mood in 1st mov, imp, is mostly raging in middle section, 2nd is calm but there are intense moment like at around 14:40, it almost like heart wrenching, you can feel the emotional pain in that little section (at least i do) and 3rd is just confusing, almost out of order and bizarre, and it sounds so...quick? like it keeps changing so fast, you can barely keep up and it also ends abruptly, almost like it's implying his mother died too quickly and suddenly
Who is the pianist??!!
Wasn't this written for his mothers death?
That's what I Heard
Why is it that the left hand is barely heard at times?
this is a half step to high, isn;t it? i tried to play along the second movement but its a complete differnt key than it is on the sheet
European pianos are tuned to A444 while American pianos are tuned to A440 :)
youtube isnt the place to show off, it was altered on purpose to avoid automatic audio recognition of this piece so it wouldnt be removed for copyright purposes, which some people fear. do you honestly think people play the same piece a half step higher? lol
ah ok. i just red that at the time of mozart the A was not 440Hz at all. It was at 421Hz.
But thanks for the info. :)
Didn't know that anybody has the rights for so old music. I thought mozart, beethoven and all those guys are free to be played
Heller's Op. 46 No. 1 sounds the same with the second theme of this sonata :3
very. nice.
probably best a semitone lower as that is how it is supposed to sound in period instrument, the kind Mozart played on in his time
Isn't the third movement a tad too fast?
buongiorno! :))
great
All idiots it's A minor at first , but it changed key to Bb minor and then change back to A minor
Kinda good I like u. XD
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Great
Great comment my friend!
sometimes i wonder how it would sound if you could hear mozart himself playing piano.
Maybe nobody can sound like him as nobody can sound like Jimi Hendrix for example.
:-o
TheBluesmountains Imagine Mozart... live... at Woodstock
actually i dont think it would be THAT different. Of course he would be skilled, but I wouldnt expect him playing much better than any pro pianist nowadays
None of the links to this composition are working from mozart-archiv.de :(
Who is playing??
Mozart
Hahahaha
Is Hasselmann the pianist?
voll schön
Gould certainly plays this to perfection and I believe the way a emotionally stricken Mozart would of...
Hi
Enjoy
who is the violinist?
why's the tuning sharp? like everything up by a semi tone almost
For avoiding copyright
Is this A minor?
2000MAX Mozart A not modern A
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Yes it can, people are different. I can show you A LOT of masterpieces that would most probably bore you to death(I'm assuming you're not musically educated). You can dislike whatever the hell you want, because in the end it's all subjective. However. you can still appreciate and value something even if you dislike it.
Though it is not him in this recording but if one wants to hear some true aggression check out Gould's interpretation...
I personally dislike Gould's interpretation of this piece. Being a huge Gould fan myself; I somehow feel he tried to approach Mozart the same way he did Bach. He is often criticised over his recording of the sonatas because of this.
Luke Collins I would agree. Gould does approach Mozart as he does Bach, although I think that's why I enjoy it. Being an equal admirer of Bach and Mozart, I like the melody played in a strong striding manner like a fugue...sometimes.
Why is it a quarter tone sharp??
Mairéad Lonergan actually a semitone. And it was probably done in an editing program to avoid copyright.
this is played in B flat minor
yet it sounds better like this
Mozart's mother had just died when he wrote this piece. No wonder it sounds sad.