M. Clementi: Allegro vivace Robert Hill, fortepiano

[BaroqueMusicOnly]

music is like food you have to listen to music like you have to eat food couse u cant stop eating and you cant stop listening to music

[BaroqueMusicOnly]

its like playing black

[Gargantupimp]

Keep in mind this is from gradus ad parnassus- a instructional work. His sonatas are perhaps more gorgeous than this.

[sarge0256]

3:19 through 3:27



[Gargantupimp]

@sarge0256 Also you can really tell Chopin learned alot from this guy. "In fact he made all of his students learn the gradus ad parnassus"

[TheBarryLloyd]

According to my edition (Breitkopf & Hartel) this is no. 41.

[oneginee]

excellent interpretation and this forte piano is a million times better than modern pianos which sounds monstrous and create hard sounds to the ear.

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

That was so amazing. Nobody plays this music anymore.... and to hear it on that fortepiano was just even better

[scyldschefing]

@ReturnOfTheStienway I agree, with both sentiments! It's a shame that the cannon of repertoire is being more and more restricted to the "greats," while other composers fall in and out of fashion or are forgotten altogether.

And it is neat to hear it on a very good sounding fortepiano.

[Cantormatis]

Man, he keeps your fingers busy. Too bad for all those notes there isn't anything all that interesting to listen to!

[maternalheart66]

@Cantormatis Oh hushup it's a delightful little work.

[Gargantupimp]

@Cantormatis Wtf are you talking about Clementis sonatas far exceed Mozarts (Except A major Turkish). Mozart excels in Concertos and other Orchestral works though above all else.

[scyldschefing]

@Gargantupimp That's your opinion.

[Gargantupimp]

@scyldschefing Yeah well I value my opinion highly and consider it quite accurate. Clementi's sonatas are always interesting and entertaining

[scyldschefing]

@Gargantupimp I like Clementi too. Like I said in another comment here, I agree that his works aren't performed often enough.

But picking favorites and talking about what composer is better than what other composer is a different matter.

[Gargantupimp]

@scyldschefing Clementi is not better than Mozart, but a lot of his piano works are a lot better than a lot of Mozarts piano works

[Tchaikov]

@Gargantupimp Well said

[Babejuda]

Listen how beautiful the sound is. It is maybe "buzzing" but not "dry". On the contrary - after you get over the 1st 'shock', you realize that it has a very rich sound. Listen to the beautiful bass-sounds: they are beautiful while not obscuring, as are the modern ones.

Bravo for the performance!

[alilapointe1]

i wiped the floor with his ass at the imperial concert

mozart letter to his father after his contest with clementti in1781

[bachboy111]

holy crap that's a lot of black on that score.

[Kurtyoungblood]

Thank you.

[Kurtyoungblood]

I keep coming back to this, thanks again!

[teoani]

So this is on a fortepiano? How cool! I just went on Naxos to listen to a series of comparisons between the modern grand piano and the fortepiano. At first, I found the fortepiano dry and buzzing, sounding like what I would consider a poorly manufactured piano. As I listened on, the lack of sustain brings in an element of liveliness. I was doubly excited listening to fast & loud passages being played on the fortepiano than on the modern piano.

If only I could try one out to experience the fun!

[squarepiano]

Bravo how beautifully you play. I myself am trying to learn this piece but as many musicians we have to work on other pieces.

Best regards. Square piano

[GIOIS01]

Ottima esecuzione!

Questo studio è uno dei miei preferiti: l'ho suonato tantissime volte. La parte centrale in tonalità minore è molto suggestiva, insomma, è una figata!

Se penso a quanto Clementi sia negletto nei concerti mi prende una rabbia indicibile.

[anonimoalfin]

¡¡WOOOOOW!! Thas incredible, THANKS FOR POSTING IT! Things like this make me a little jelous of pianists (in a good sense, that is) THANKS AGAIN!

[MOZARTasaWARcrime]

...in addition,I missed the contrasting of hands.(So necessary to make the structure less gross,but more subtle.)But I liked the many quicks turn of phrase acknowledgements you gave to the structure.Your articulation

seems notably more varied than most pinaists(Modern or otherwise)are giving these.

[MOZARTasaWARcrime]

I love the witty and excitable elan.There are some very nice changes of mood here.On the other hand,The playing is not ahead of the perceived downbeat,(necessary for the whimsical element.)Also I would have preferred more pathos in the fleeting pathos,along with chords that are BROKEN.

I AWARD THIS 2 3/8 WOLFIES...You lost an 1/8

because I got Vertigo trying to follow the score!

[earlymus]

Not only that but it took me forever to get the score to play that way. The Scarlatti posting K 517 has stable screens for a whole line of music. But since Clementi is an original score, with much wider pages than a modern piano score, I had to set it up with a scrolling score.