D. Scarlatti: Sonata in A Maj K 208, Robert Hill, fortepiano

[vagadellestelle]

Wonderful music, wonderful performance, wonderful piano! Just a quick question: the piano's sound seems different from the usual replicas of the Cristofori pianos that I heard (which sound more like harpsichords). Can you tell me if perhaps there is an evolution in the Cristofori pianos and this piano is a replica of a Cristofori piano which is among the last ones that Cristofori built?

[Aze876]

Very beautiful.

BTW, is this instrument tuned to Baroque pitch?

Thanks

[harpsichordRB]

Where is rhytm???

[lovesGenet]

I cant believe this performance. It's like an answered prayer. This want is what sent me to Boulez and Rochberg. The flexibility here is so imaginative andf answers the emotional complexity I believe Scarlatti had which cant be fiound anywhere in this period. Did Bach even dream of such.W.c. Bach expressionist asides maybe .I love this.

[goldberg72]

come si a a dire che nn erano romatici i compositori del 700

[cygnusne]

The most beautiful rendering of this sonata I have heard !!!!! Very expressive, very moving !! Pity more people don't dare to free baroque music from the metronome!!

Thank you !!!

[luisgallegos58]

what program are you using? for notation

[fiandrhi]

Wow, at 1:20 you use a kind of trill (ribattuta) that I usually hear only in performance of Monteverdi and other early Italian Baroque opera. I'd be interested to know why you use this kind of trill. I don't believe I've ever heard a keyboard player use one. I will adopt it in some of my own Scarlatti playing.

[HerrWarja]

How relaxing.

[koushirou]

This really shows the new style after the baroque period.

[lovesGenet]

Wow. My mind was blown away at the rhythm .Landowska i must hear inScarlatti and this wonderful sound.WOW!

[enantiodrom]

5 stelle a questo sensibile esecutore che fa sentire l'eco del Bebung nel ribattuto all'inizio della seconda parte. eccelso

[1dtqcssh]

I deeeeeeeply enjoyed your performance. I play mainly Scarlatti and your play is really inspiring.

Any connection with Wanda Landowska's teaching ?

[earlymus]

Thanks for the feedback. There is indeed a connection, not so much with Landowska's teaching as with her marvelously flexible rhythm in her Scarlatti recordings.

[Noshirm]

How absolutely lovely this playing is!

[Kraviotho]

una de mis obras favoritas ... muy buen video al igual q la interpetacion 5/5

[filsuf]

Scarlatti is a Scorpion!! Like me too!! That's why I like to play Scarlatti -- my fella Scorpion!

I can feel Scarlatti's Scorpion-natural-depth of sensual-emotion expressed so well in here.

[earlymus]

I'm a Scorpio as well...

[danielchong1234]

ermm.you mean the music is as dangerous as scorpion or as "dark" as scorpion?

[akane528bruno]

Words failed me, because this performance moved me!!!

[soadnaruto]

scarlati good

[steelseahorse]

Why is every note a half step down?

[Lifecomesfromwithin]

Standard pitch has been going up a little over the last few centuries. He's using a historical tuning, which was about a half step lower.

[steelseahorse]

oh cool.

[justap19]

Ojej. Czemu nuty są tak dużym drukiem. Po co?

[justap19]

Dźwiek nie jest dobry.

Napisy na nutach?

Dlaczego tak ?

[codonauta]

The sonata looks like so easy to play. The left hand, just quarters notes on the time, in chords, or fundamental and fifth. It looks like music composed to beginners, to students.

[enantiodrom]

Il trillo che inizia la seconda sezione fatto come un bebung o come una ribattuta monteverdiana. Notevole

[neilr3]

I love all these pieces that Robert plays - but this is my favourite. Absolutely beautiful.

It would be nice to hear the Adagio from Haydn Sonata H46 in A Flat Major on this instrument.

[StrangeDodo]

Hi Robert! This is a superb performance! I especially like the way in which you express the beautiful crescendo flow (0:21 - 0:23) where you lift the notes "up onto the clouds" (0:22). Expressive musical Art!

[GerardvanR]

I like this performance on a Cristofori-pianoforte, and I like a personal mood in the performance, but this interpretation is not good, too much freedom of the player. Freedom is good but too much makes a caricature of this piece.

[Viscamo]

I didn't realise, the the old instrumnts could so expresive. Good performance

[polymath7]

By "old instruments" do you mean pianos that were available in Bach and Scarlatti's day? Is that what is heard here?

[suzettegm]

Lovely Scarlatti, thanks for sharing,regards, one of Smith's flock ;))