Pletnev plays Scarlatti Sonata K.24

[Lissbirds]

I wish there was video of this!

[flic71]

vabbè ma così non si capisce un'emerita sega!

troppo veloce, eccheccazzo

[MortiCarthago]

Too bad I can't play like this...

[sam0xin]

As usual ... GENIUS ! Pletnev 's interpritations of Scaralatti sonatas ( 2CD set by "Virgin Classics".) are EVENT of THE CENTURY !!! ONE BETTER the other one...

& this live version of K24 FANTASTIC & even differently ( comp. with recording..) ...GENIUS MASTER-PERFORMANCE ! MASTER of Pianoforte..MASTER !

[NOSEhow2LIV]

I was there! I remember being totally dazzled by his group of Scarlatti, more than the rest of the programme. Listening back, i can understand the comments like: "doesn't get Scarlatti"....etc, it's certainly excessive & individual. But i find his very different "accent" in Scarlatti to be just as valid as a theatrical experience and certainly worth hearing at least once. I am very happy to hear it again!

[thetunr]

Then you heard Pletnev play also Brahms's Handel Variations and Debussy's First Book of Preludes! I should definitely upload some Preludes from that concert.

Concerning Scarlatti... Comments like that about the supposed understanding of a composer are utter BS. Too many listeners want to judge great pianists and explain how they should play instead of shutting up and simply listening what they have to say.

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Yes, I'd love to hear the Brahms & Debussy again too, altho i was less "swept away"by those. In the case of Pletnev, i find his interpretations so vital & imaginative that even when he's "wrong", the result.......sensual, cerebral, visceral, pianistical(!)....is always worth experiencing.

Wasn't there a marvellous Chopin Nocturne as encore?

[pastcloud]

@NOSEhow2LIV I envy you so much!

[lovesGenet]

nothing not even Horowitz surpasses Pletnev or Pogorelich. Horowitz I'm surprised was this considered perfect Scarlatti playing when he did his big record album.I adore Horowitz .He is more than piano playing but there r so many others out there i rather here in this music!even in chopin he aint da one!

[violatione]

@lovesGenet Martha Argerich, and Gyorgy Cziffra also have unbelievable Scarlatti skills.

[antoinezygfryd]

Je suis déçu comme il n'est pas permis,par la clownerie de ce grand pianiste,mais c'est vrai que le peuple russe ne comprendra jamais l'univers solaire et discret de Scarlatti.

J'ai écouté tout son cd consacré à Scarlatti et il n'y a rien à sauver,à part sa technique éblouissante et son toucher aérien.Vite du Prokofiev par lui!

[antoinezygfryd]

Pour découvrir Scarlatti,veuillez écouter Pogorelich,qui laisse entendre un miracle d'interprétation.

Ici,ce sont des clowneries indignes de Pletnev.

[antoinezygfryd]

K20 par Pogorelich.........

[ghardvyu]

FABULOUS!!

TREMENDOUS!!

INSANE!!

[orannisthedestroyer]

he's frightening :) in a good way

[3avrillavigne]

приезжай в КИЕВ

бля

[ggn1234]

@jghancokjr: I have only one things to say.

WHATEVER...

[katkula]

too presto... but very well performed nevertheless!!

[sam0xin]

Maestro Pletnev's 2 CD set of Scarlatti- Sonatas quite an event of century. If some performers in the past realize that "..these are not exercises,these are SONATAS..."(even so they're all were performed as a Hanon ex-es.) " Maestro Pletnev discovered more...I swear! after listening of this recording, I realized...Scarlatti's "Exercises" are basic source (matrix maybe?!) of classical music in general

[sam0xin]

At LAST I heard REAL - VERTUOSO ! Scarlatti's great MASTERPIESES(exercises...btw) composed in XV & anticipated for XXI century...! ! ! BRAVO MAESTRO PLETNEV.

[jghancockjr]

He just doesn't get Scarlatti.

[parazsdavid]

... but he plays awesomely!

[jghancockjr]

That is true. He has a great technique.

[chad410]

nice. i can t belive he played in the Wigmore. and why didn t Martha i wonder?