Gieseking - MOZART Piano Sonata K.331 (1)

[felijazzpower]

malisimo... hay que tocar con el corazón no con la cabeza.. escuchen a glenn viejo.. la técnica es una herramienta loco, no la obra.

[hunacan]

сердце порхает под музыку Моцарта ! ! !

[Pierinopasquotti]

Gieseking quasi insuperabile! Chi meglio di lui? Forse Escenbach,Arrau, Michelangeli. Grazie infinite per questo video

[soukolgharb1]

j'ai toujours appreciee les pieces de Mozart.merci Andrew.merci

[KishoAudioVisual]

I still have that EMI (LP) set ... Amazing <3

[RobaDiRob]

See the incipit of Scarlatti's sonata K513 !

[shvartze]

Gieseking’s Mozart to this day is the standard. It is not dry. There are occasional recordings that may be more attention grabbing and dramatic (see Yudina Mozart Concerto 23 adagio). The technique and touch are flawless. No use of the pedal which exposes everything!  The greatest trills of any pianist. No unneeded punctuation. His dynamics were subtle. You can search every other virtuoso yet you will not find this required combination of perfect skills for Mozart.

[gintyan94]

ギゼキングはワルトシュタインの演奏を聞いたことがある。かなり­速くひいていた。フレーズが広かった。

[CarlosMondiego]

@gintyan94

hong ching tuan pei tjong pea ?

[kempff95]

GENIUS playing by the maestro !

[EdiEllerymissing]

???

Cage was a very good composer!

Random comments XDDD!

[revelations21v6]

Certainly one of the better renditions around - Gieseking preserves a lot of the feeling within this work of Mozart's; there are technically more brilliant recitals around but they miss out on the beautiful pensiveness that this masterpiece offers.

[margariitaZ]

wow mozart

[mradipatti]

tic , toc , tic, toc

just like the Uhrwerke that M. loved so much, Gieseking is ticking away , giving us the Mozart child, I would rather say that Gieseking stepped out of the way and we get 100% Mozart

[losinggrip1993]

This is delightful to listen too. This Pianist plays it so well!

[Ernesto7608]

I feel somewhat silly writing this comment, but here it is anyway. Listening to Gieseking play this Mozart sonata, I kind of sense that he feels that this music is too easy for him. It must be difficult for a pianist of his stature not to feel this way...

In contrast, I found the other days a version played by Christoph Eschenbach that I consider much superior. His playing of the Mozart sonatas is pure Mozart essence! No personal technique issues but pure MUSIC!

[LPCLASSICAL]

I think I disagree with you. I doubt if a perfomer the stature of Gieseking would make the mistake of underestimating Mozart's music - we know that a grade 6 pianist can play this piece. But who has the taste to shape each little phrase with style and make it blossom - that takes a master - Gieseking succeeds in my opinion - so does Eschenbach - but Gould fails.

[Ernesto7608]

You give me an opportunity to disagree too.  The music of Mozart requires appropriate technique but not a big name to make it 'blossom'. All the little phrases have already been shaped with style by Mozart. This, if we want 100% Mozart and not 60% Mozart plus 40% Gieseking.

I feel the same about the performance of Horowitz here on youtube, which I dislike. You may listen to it, and if you find my comment there, you will have more material to disagree with. :)

[LPCLASSICAL]

I do not believe you can have 100% Mozart. Ever heard of Rolande Barthes? He would have a thing or two to say about that. However - if what you say is true then every great k331 would sound the same. I doubt if Mozart ever played k331 exactly the same twice in a row - there has to be some interpretation within what the composer intended. As for Gieseking - I began to listen thinking it was just another performance - but I just found the left and right hands working together with great force.

[Ernesto7608]

Surely any author would have different ways to write a book on each try. But it does not take away from a good book that every edition, copy is identical. Music has also a language, no need to lick every phrase beyond its message, like a book doesn't need pretty calligraphy.

Maybe the common part of good interpretations is what becomes the 100% Mozart. Why deviate around it? The more we listen to a good version the more we like it, although the listening experience is always slightly different

[LPCLASSICAL]

Hmm, that is interesting. Are you saying that a pianist is to Mozart what a printer is to someone like Shakespeare? Surely the pianist is much more than that?

[Ernesto7608]

More than that... A pianist is to us the public what a storyteller is to those who don't read. Ideally we should all have the skills to create the music from the score. This is equivalent to being able to read Shakespeare instead of having to listen to actors speaking. Thanks to technology we can reproduce forever one instance of playing, but this does not mean that we need a wide collection of different performances to be satisfied.

[LPCLASSICAL]

Yes but listening to a good performance is far more satisfying than reading the score. You should look at the debate I have engaged in with another k331 fan who argues that the feelings and expression of the artist come first - this time with Glenn Gould recording. But anyway I do agree that we do not need an enormous archive of performances.

[Ernesto7608]

Yes? I find that reading the score while playing the music is at least as satisfying as listening to the best performance in the world. That's why we amateurs spend so much time learning to play and practicing an instrument.

I will look at your debate on the G.Gould performance. You must have realized that I am interested in challenging debates :)

[Ernesto7608]

And another reason this recording may not be so satisfying is that the pitch does not seem to be not steady. One can detect a slight wobble, perhaps due to the analog recording. I would not blame Gieseking for this, though, not even the great force of his hands working together...

[diegoman35]

I love so much the sad variation

[sabinastucki]

Very lovely! Thank you so much for uploading!

[Thm46]

I'd forgotten how great Gieseking's interpretations are. I first heard this in 1961 when I purchased the LP on Angel.

Brings back memories of when I was a kid and had been listening to Mozart for only a couple of years.

Another great interpretation is by Ingrid Haebler on the Denon label from 20 years ago.

Thanks for posting.

[Ravel87]

This is dry...

[kjw163]

Yes, as in a 'dry' martini ! Delicious !

[gofreddor]

The Mozart pianist non pareil in a performance combining color and architecture to perfection.

[filippeo85]

I will in a few days.I am in different town in the moment.

[filippeo85]

I will in few days.I am in diferent town in the moment.

[mendontcry2000]

could you post the other two movements?

[mendontcry2000]

never mind. thanks for posting this.