Added: 5 years ago
From: Sissco
Views: 179,352
Sort by time | Sort by thread (beta)

Link to this comment:

Share to:
see all

All Comments (235)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Incredible

  • Scarlatti resided for about 20 years at a rich Spanish court, where -undoubtedly- were several pianofortes. De pianoforte -as the name says- allows dynamic in the volume, which is adding more emotion to the piece. Whether you like that is a matter of taste. I'm sure all composers in ancient times would have loved play the pianoforte.

  • Absolutely superb!

  • Scarlatti one of the great masters.this individual plays this with eloquence.

  • right, this is nice but so much better with harpsichord

  • @joechamell Liar!

  • beautiful, but....it was written for another instrument....

  • ...did not realize just how amazingly compatible is the Pogorelich tone/way of striking the keys...to Scarlatti...his pacing/attacks are a bit weird...but still the combination kinda addictive...other people's Scarlatti...begins to suck?..

  • 554 more..

  • Is it just me or is this pianist hot!

    Seriously mancrushing right now...

  • I could not listen to Scarlatti on Piano before this incredible performer. Pogorelich is an absolute master of his art. Senor Scarlatti would love this guy.

  • I see three things when I listen to Ivo Pogorelich: comfort, perfect posture and breathing. And when I see it, I hear each of them in perfect work.

  • @erandi1680

    and just a bit of don't-give-a-fuck

  • This is an excellent recording and performance, thank you.

  • Beautiful. One of my favourite Scarlatti sonatas.

  • From what I've read this was recorded in the Villa Caldogno located in Italy. There were two rooms in this villa used for recording a few of Ivo's videos. Just look up Villa Caldogno and read up on it.

  • beautiful..scarlatti is excellent and so is this pianist

  • why am I think some Rachmaninoff Prelude in G-minor lol

  • Is that Pogo's living room!? Good Lord, Scarlatti must be bringing in the bacon!

    Seriously, I love Pogorelich's interpretations of Scarlatti on piano. Sensitive yet powerful.

  • i have just heard of Scarlatti on my piano lesson this week, i like it

  • Answer to Naitsabes Winklers: Those performances (not all, of course) are available on DVD

  • KE MERAVIGLIA!

  • Somebody know if those performances are available on DVD?

  • So natural...

  • He performed Scarlatti even better a bit later in his life [truly hard to believe in it, don't you think so?]

  • ...niko nije odsvirao Scarlattia kao Ivo POgorelich...tako precizno ,tako dinamicno,krasan anschlag...bravo majstore

  • ...jedna zadivljujuca preciznost,idealan anschlag,brzina...predivno,jer ne treba zanemariti cinjenicu da je ovo djelo nastalo na cembalu...slusao sam mnoge interpretacije Scarlatti-a,ali Ivi Pogorelicu nisu ni do koljena...kako mi Bosanci kazemo-"bravo majstore"

  • Que manera de acariciar un teclado, un sentir simbiotico, bello muy bello. No pierdas ese sentir.

  • @gabrielaparra1508 Yo no poder perderlo el sentir pero perder el memoria si, yo no poder teclar no more

  • @Jimmyocaca Perdón que pregunte pero ya viste especialistas?, ya tienes detectada las causas?, ya trataste imnosis, regresión, es por daño neuronal? en fin mira creo q la mente es enorme, y aun q aveces pueden pasar cosas no se tal vez hay forma de reencontrar lo perdido. Saludos.

  • @gabrielaparra1508 Thank you, yo viviendo al este del ciudad del Dublin,lejos de los doctors, viviendo solo por 15 anos, todo se olvida, no tener instruments no mas no practice

  • wonderful

  • @gospelkeys07 Definitely, BACH!

  • Lovely performance. Pogorelich is always crystal clear in Scarlatti. The expressive color comes not from any overly-Romantic interpretation, but from the colors of the piano itself.

    Thanks for posting.

  • Comment removed

  • scarlatti is f dificult..i know

  • I love the even-ness of tempo he plays this with- many renditions are much more - i do not know the term... stuccatic?

    I am no one to criticize- i can barely bang this out, and it takes me about 20 minutes.

  • Magic , touching the essence.

  • Pogorelich's playing sounds like perfection. I know little about playing the piano but I noticed how Pogorelich holds his fingers vertically to the keyboard. If you watch Horowitz play, he holds his fingers horizontally (flat) on the keyboard. Both players achieve amazing results with such different styles.

  • @djg3619 ....yeah, that's true. The techniques are interesting. Just curious, though. You say you don't know much about the piano.....so what is your instrument? Which one do you play? (if any)

  • I play the guitar (classical and jazz). I was first attracted to Scarlatti because of the Spanish influence in his compositions.

  • @djg3619 Horowitz's technique dates from the 19th century school of legato playing.

  • C'est excellent!!!!!

  • where's the harpsichord...

  • @satranifan

    It's a piano... Idiot!

  • @brassmonkeyjew Excuse me? I can very well see and HEAR the piano... that's why I asked where the harpsichord is. . . .Last I checked this sonata is for harpsichord...and sounds best that way, though this interpretation is excellent.

  • @satranifan

    In your opinion...

  • Jealous

  • @crimsontoxic You're gay

  • Piekny, selektywny dzwiek. Doskonaly puls.

    Beautiful, selective sound. Perfect pulse. Great!

  • 1:48 - 1:58 Spanish

  • a sewing machine.. great, twinkling pianoplaying and yet a great composer

  • Sissco, you are a genius. You always upload the best video.

    @ThePhilosorpheus Does it really make him sound like a Russian composer? I think his light touch and sharp trills make it sound very Baroque.

  • I kind of agree with ThePhilosorpheus it's almost as if there was a "russian touch" to it :-)

  • @smakisssss

    I do agree... On the 1st bars (before reading yours comments), I was discerning a strong ecole russe sound.

  • he makes scarlatti sound like a russian composer, but frankly i prefer it this way, brilliant performance

  • Personne à ma connaissance n'a jamais joué aussi justement Scarlatti...ni réussi la gageure d'un équilibre parfait entre le phrasé et les timbres.C'est stupéfiant,ni Michelangeli ni Horowitz n'ont atteint ce naturel,ce délié si envoûtant....Pogorelich me fait découvrir un Scarlatti que j'écoute désormais à part entière,et non plus comme un bouche-trou de concert.

    Je crois que les pianistes ont de quoi être gênés devant cette compréhension de l'oeuvre.

  • Excelente. Pogorelich hace cantar el piano,,,, Pocos pianistas encuentran a Scarlatti como él.

  • god, Why do people insist on Playing Scarlatti on Piano.........terrible. Although I love the Piano. It retches me to hear Baroque quartets with a pianist rather than a Harpsichord.

  • so.....your saying ppl should not play chopin on anything other than piano?

    just because u think it sounds better (or belongs) on a certain instrument doesn't mean it's horrible on something else

    learn how to appreciate music

  • ................are u replying to the right person? i was talking about music...not ur name, or food for that matter

    u might want to reconsider who is being offensive here

  • ok shadowsofnineveh....WHAT is not any better than sony's new brand of speakers?

    You are not referring to anything remotely relevant to what i was saying. what do ur so-called "poems" have to be about? soda? or beef? or maybe pennies with a small fraction of copper in them? or maybe even a red paperclip that turns into a house over time? ur clearly high off cheese

    Your off-topic wavering of the mouth isn't going to make your....babble any effective

    get ur head checked

  • Interesting conversation going on here. I used to have an uncle named Brad who loved fried cabbage but wasn't so hot on liver shreds. He sure could play Scarlatti, though. He's dead now, which is probably best. He was a real jerk.

  • doesn't matter what instrument it is, just play with the composers' intentions in mind.

  • To shadowsofnineveh,

    It's simply because most of us aren't so outraged by something so inconsequential.

    You're truly,

    God.

  • ... and by you're truly, I mean yours truly. Even God makes mistakes.

  • ich finde, auf dem Klavier klingt Scarlatti besser, weil man die Feinheiten besser hört. Auf dem Cembalo verschwimmt alles, weil die Saiten immer nachklingen. Damals hatten sie eben nichts anderes....

  • sry, schwachsinn. Klavier schwingt auch! das ist aber nicht der punkt, sondern scarlattis sonaten sind für das cembalo und DESSEN klang entstanden. die art und der ausdruck kommen meist nur am cemblao so zur geltung, gerade weil es transparent ist und "verschwimmt"; sicher, verschiedene interpretationen sind möglich und auch schön, aber das original bzw dem nachzueiefern ist immer noch das wichtigeste, wie ich finde!

  • @Lutzenberger:

    Also wieso dann Schwachsinn. Ich verstehe, was du sagst. Hatten eben nichts anderes. Und ich habe trotzdem recht...

  • Finally, someone can play the piano.

    Thank you, Ivo...

  • Noes! not on the piano!

    Play Scarlatti on the Harpichord!

  • great recording..beautiful rendition.. excellent

  • Remarkable. Thank you for this nice moment.

  • Splendid Klavier Sonate and hes performance Astonish me indeed

  • Excellent

  • these tiny-tripples are nasty to play. amazing job.

  • Scarlatti was invented for Pogorelich and Pogorelich was invented for Scarlatti. A perfect match between the two

  • @truthinmedia

    Absolutely. We're so lucky to have people of this calibre interpreting Scarlatti for us.

  • Amazing touch and performance. Wonderful.

  • This was absolutely beautiful. I really enjoyed your performance.

  • listen to Alexis weissenberg, then pronounce perfection.

    This is beautiful in its tempo, yet weissenberg totally makes the tempo his own, and the results are phenominal

    IvoP is truly gifted, weissenbergs interperetations would make dominico proud!

  • If you think Weissenberg is superb then find recordings of Christian Zacharias and know how Scarlatti would have had them played......Sergei Babayan is also worth hearing.......

  • Wow, thanks for replying! it is sometimes very frustrating trying to find great performances, it's usually a 'blanket' approach, so this is wonderful to have direction to pursue.

    have you heard the jazz banjo virtuoso Bela Fleck's recording of K.159? It sounds like it should be odd, on banjo, but it is arranged for banjo and lute, and is played as a classical guitar might. The tempo and presence feels very good, and the ambience and echos are very flattering to the performance.

  • It is Beautiful but say never Perfect !!!

  • after this fantastic interpretation, the other pianists seems drunk boxers; it is incredible how could be difficult to arrive at an accomplishment so clear and perfect!

  • i really prefer the real master of scarlatti, scot ross (rip) but i like Pogorelichs interpreations, its brilliant on the piano!

  • Listen to Scarlatti played by Racha Arodaky, she's so amazing, a real genius.

  • This is too good to be true ... Incredible!

  • moderation

  • Best played and heard in a harpsichord. Scarlatti composed mostly for the harpsichord.

  • I think especially this piece is an example for the brilliance scarlatti sonatas can get when played on the piano. this is an extraordinary well performed piece of art!

  • wow so simple, yet captivating

  • Such an amazing sense of rhythm - rare quality. There is no rushing - just always in time.

  • minimalistic and elegant. Bravissimo.

  • Next Friday I see Mr. Pogorelich performing Rachmaninov 2nd concert... :-)

  • ugh? i didn'tknow he's on tour these years?

  • Yes, he's working by now. He retired for some years after his wife's dead, but now he is on the road again.

    His Rachmaninov was very PERSONAL (slow, with cadenze....) but, in my opinion PHENOMENAL although audience and reviews had quite diverse opinions.

  • beautiful composition... he made it sound easy and fun, I almost want to try :)

  • Amazing performance by my favorite pianist.

    You should also listen to his Scarlatti CD also released on DG, outstanding performance as well.

  • Wow, what a piece of music, what a pianist

  • perfectly played!

  • I love pogorelich and I love scarlatti!!!

  • me encantan las interpretaciones de scarlatti por pogorelich

  • Moddanis...It is taught to me that if you would not comment so much you would seem smarter.This Scarlatti is perfect to my ears!

  • Thought this was interesting in a relentless way. Aren't there different ways of playing Scarlatti even accepting that this is on a modern grand in any event?

  • There are infinite ways of it.This is just literal metronomism with a beautiful touche.

  • Wake up and listen to his genius instead of criticising greatness!!!!!

  • Listen to Alexis Weissenberg's piano of K 450. Everything this is not. He varies tempo, attack, even blurs some notes, but it _sounds_ like scarlatti! Weissenberg performs in the true baroque spirit. Also, listen to his "rage over a lost penny" (sp?) by beethoven, it'll wear you out!

  • I think they tuned this instrument to make it more suitable to play Scarlatti on...

  • press one time & then wait even it doesn't react; "as heard".Maybe this is what I v o does,too.

  • I'm so sorry for what happened..4 times same thing..How could it be.

  • le chéri de ses gammes

  • This is one of the most boring performances I've ever seen.

  • You are right but I need light when I'm even BORED;too. & he produces this "LiGHT" even though HE is Bored of doing this SO.

    One must have p a t i a n c e; We shouldn't run A WAY When we are BORED.

  • I'm not sure what you're trying to say. In any case, there are different kinds of boredom. All great works of art are sometimes boring, because they are unfamiliar (both familiarity and unfamiliarity can cause boredom); the cure for this type of boredom is interpretation: understanding the "boring" removes the boredom. The other kind of boredom, the kind applicable to this performance, is the kind that's not hiding any secrets, and the only cure for that sort of boredom is escape from its cause.

  • I don't know If I understood your saying right,but I shall put my view anyway."interpretation" may be based on either "understanding composers doing" or "the listener".What I'm bored about is mostly the second one &interpretors mostly choose this way.I v o seems he doesn't.

    I am curious about the way How ART of SOUND move.The Third thing ART itself.

    Here right hand is boring but left hand is interesting as what he tells Us,& understandable because right hand make a stable BASE..for it..

  • I don't know If I understood your saying right,but I shall put my view anyway."interpretation" may be based on either "understanding composers doing" or "the listener".What I'm bored about is mostly the second one &interpretors mostly choose this way.I v o seems he doesn't.

    I am curious about the way How ART of SOUND move.The Third thing ART itself.

    Here right hand is boring but left hand is interesting as what he tells Us,& understandable because right hand make a stable BASE..for it..

  • I don't know If I understood your saying right,but I shall put my view anyway."interpretation" may be based on either "understanding composers doing" or "the listener".What I'm bored about is mostly the second one &interpretors mostly choose this way.I v o seems he doesn't.

    I am curious about the way How ART of SOUND move.The Third thing ART itself.

    Here right hand is boring but left hand is interesting as what he tells Us,& understandable because right hand make a stable BASE..for it..

  • I don't know If I understood your saying right,but I shall put my view anyway."interpretation" may be based on either "understanding composers doing" or "the listener".What I'm bored about is mostly the second one &interpretors mostly choose this way.I v o seems he doesn't.

    I am curious about the way How ART of SOUND move.The Third thing ART itself.

    Here right hand is boring but left hand is interesting as what he tells Us,& understandable because right hand make a stable BASE..for it..

  • I think him playing is very "sissy". Or maybe he is got out of his coffinn because he look very pale and sick. He is femalelike but not so much because him playing is very tut tut tut. It would not work for him to play a luxurious musik like this, but I say it that I think Scarlatti is luxurous music. He is Italian with Spain influence. He has got "hot blooded". This is very ice cold.

  • He is a little too big to be sissy..this means if he can be SiSSY,then there must be a talent for this..A EmpTY CANVAS; is PALe too.but then you can put any color on it; &this white-pale balance,make every color shine.& if dont content; bE Satisfied with these tu,tu, tut,;then soldiers heavy shoe's tut,tut,tut, comes to our country.

    We need Spain to be Established in iCE-Land..agaiN.

    Palaces need to be MADE from iCE ;I think.

  • It is important & (a real talent) to be abLE;to "STOP-ABSOLUT"..When writing, you stop ABSOLUT,& because these musical pieces are "written",then they need an approach with ABSOLUTE Standing..

    İf he is a man MuMyfied in the history of Egypt then he is SWEEPing ;,coming from a long Way & on the road He MEETs Scarlatti; & very objective look to him; from true history.

    When U can STOP ABSOLUTely; your SOUL Walks a way from U for it can not stop;FOR "this is called MUSiC;itself"..

  • Left Hand presented; "Person" is breathing in the Neck ;"frontier"of precursor;

    but "ahead" everywhere.

  • Fine Execution alone does not make Music.

  • i agree.

  • I need this "fineExecution";to exicute written music; for the pure music sense in my soul to have A Sound..

  • Hasn't God,execuded " C u t ",women for them to cut every extension.Soldiers of God,for ONCE He has cut..but Ivo is the SERGEant..or(General..)

    (be aware of your women for their consciousness..in God..)

  • Fine Execution,make music "a OBJECT Made of TRUE SOUND"..Every one has his own soul & Would bend these TRUE Sounds as they Wish.

    We shouldn't consider ourselves a s "important person";& demand someone to carry and perform our soulS as sound.

    SOUND is Sound,& We can Bend sound for our soul if the sound is true.

    You don't need,Your Soul touching YOU.from outside.WEAR true sound & touch, A R O U N D..

  • I think Pogerelich has slowed a down a touch with maturity he's making the very best recordings around. You have to hear his English Suites. The hall he's playing has a slight echo but it's lovely, he holds back and at last I can really hear and enjoy the singing Scarlatti and not the pianist's technique so much.

  • was he playing it with closed eyes all throughout?! that was very neat!

  • IVO IS THE BEST!!!

  • He would be great in a duo with Berdien Stenberg here.

  • sorry, i don't like very much the Pogorelich performance.

  • Wax museum performance.

  • The Scarlatti as Frozen Gello in a plaster caste interpretation.

  • I like it how people interpretet music differently. It becomes interesting, unique and worth listening. I hope to get my own spinet some day. I love the floor:p

  • If ElvesCreed were right, we would still all be playing drums and woodensticks since the stone age. This is called musical evolution. I am sure Mozart would in our time have been one of the greatest djs around...

  • all that discuss about piano/harpsichord seems a bit vain to me. Maybe am I very naïve, but what matters is if the music if beautiful or not methinks.

  • Look I am going to go too my music retailer and pick up a copy of K450 after seeing this.

  • this actually is on a public domain website, so i advise you not spend money on something you could simply print out.

    "sheetmusicarchive(DOT)net"

    when you get on the website, click on Scarlatti, then search down the list for the K number (450).

    hope i helped

  • wait, nvm, i dont see the K. number on there. try "mutopiaproject(dot)org"

    if it isnt there, keep searcing the net, or just buy it

  • thanks bkdukee

  • no problem. did u ever find it, or did u end up buying it?

  • Es algo muy fino y atinado este Scarlatti interpretado en piano, no obstante, los colores suaves y brillantes de un clave (clavecin) transmiten mucho mejor y permiten hacer "bailar" mejor a los ritmos, arpegios, trinos y motivos vivos de una composición de este tipo. Yo soy un convencido que tanto los organistas como los pianistas debemos pasar un buen tiempo en el clave para refinar nuestro toque.

  • Stacy seems to exist in the 17th Century. I think there is medication for that.

  • petie32, If there's any more bitter medicine to snap one out of 17th-century pipe dreams than this performance, I don't know about it. Listening to Pogorelich dispatch this sonata the way a bored secretary would type out a memorandum re: keeping the area around the water cooler clean will always remind me that I'm stuck in the 21st century, the musical equivalent of the Dark Ages.

  • Interesting views here.

  • no sean mamones, toca pocamadre este cabrón y ya

  • Mira, Vulgarcito, llevas razón en decirles mamucas a estos exquisitos de tercera, que luego ni saben lo que dicen, pero tampoco te proyectes cabroneando al Pogorelich, que su mucho trabajo le costó lllegar a dominar su oficio así. Respetar al verdadero mérito no es desdoro ni servilismo, sino muestra de una personalidad solida y conocedora... (órale, raza, me aventé, me aventé...). (De todos modos me dio gusto hallar a alguien que le gusta beber de la buena música, pero no en mamila...)

  • ¡eh! tienes una respuesta, pero el sistema la puso aparte, tienes que leer arriba

  • Superb performance - metrical, yes but also subtle shading in the dynamics.

  • If I were being crass I might point out that this man most likely washes his mane with Pert plus, and that he neglects to use conditioner. But I don't want to be crass so I'll just say that his hands look like talons clutching a lemon sized invisible oculus. If I were to be even more crass, I might say that he plays as though just back from a trip to the john after his daily allowance of prune juice. Keep it regular folks.

  • Were you crass when you made your ID? What kind of comment is that? may be you are too "regular" and just shitting on other people.

  • You may be right in some of your appreciations, but, are they pertinent? What about if you stop seeing the video for a couple of times and hear the rendering of the work? That's the main thing, you know?

  • It's time to take on the trolls who reject a "mechanical interpretaion" to Baroque music. By "mechanical" I suppose they mean Ivo takes no rhythmic liberties with his Scarlatti or Bach. They are right - he does not. And well he should not! Baroque-era music was NOT about rubato and modern piano technique! It concerned exuberant emotional content checked by strict metrical control. If you want a Romantic interpretation of Baroque music, fine. But don't pretend that is how it should be performed.

  • I agree, imo it's harder to keep a constant bpm than put emotions wich are just ways to hide your incapacity of playing a parrt of the song with the correct tempo

  • Then we should just put robots to play the song...

  • If you put a robot to play music it is playing what you programmed it to play, hence, it is you that is playing. Baroque music is great in any capacity. It just should not be labeled "correct" unless it is played exactly as it was played in its time.

  • Then there will never be a "correct" performance of Baroque music since we have no idea how exactly it was played? Bach didn't make recordings.

    Tripe. Stuff and nonsense.

  • If they gave you an enema, you'd weigh ten pounds.

    This is the Conservatory line. Again, there are countless examples in Baroque music, some even explicitly written out, that call for rubato. The distinction between Romantic, Classical, and Baroque "performance practice" was an invention of the Romantic Age. Your point is ahistorical, and exists only as a crumbling monument to the academic desire to classify things that are not classifiable.

  • Stacysucks has perfectly comprehended this for the vapid tripe that it is.

  • Guter Technicker. Aber für meinen Geschmack persönlich zu wenig Herzblut.

  • That's excellent playing. You really can hear Scarlatti's spirit in this.

  • The 80 yards piano playing, no dynamics at all.

  • "Ivo" garners extreme praise from all those who have suscribed to the notion of sterile mechanical purity as an aesthetic ideal.

    This Modern notion of the baroque has zero to do with history,though we can't deny that sterility through abstinence appeals to some.

  • If you were trying to be objective, you will agree that this is not really sterile, this word has an implicit judgement about the quality of the interpretation that is your personal opinion. It would probably be best described as calm and absent. And it appeals to some, yes. So why criticise this? This is music, no one will obligue you to listen to it. Perhaps historical accuracy equals fine taste? mmm... I do not think so. Interpretation is a creative task too.

  • Why would the pianist restrict itself to reproduce what the composer intended when he/she can add a new value and a different and interesting feeling to the piece?