Vladimir Sofronitsky plays Mozart Fantasy in C minor, K 396

Mozart - Fantasy in C minor, K 396
Radio broadcast recording, 1952, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)

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• vladimir
• sofronitsky
• mozart
• fantasy
• piano
• classical

[sam0xin]

BTW.... if he tried to show his grace on technique by playing Fantasy genre just like Hanon-exercises(sometimes even those could be performed more interesting)...I found many errors...I'm not even like to argue about dynamics..they are simply doesn't exists!

[truecrypt]

Amazing analysis! I'm sure YTers will enjoy your comments for a long time! ;)

[sam0xin]

I'm sorry ! here is the explanation of that expression from documentary about RICHTER "ENIGMA" "I did not found the key to MOZART"... I don't want to believe you going to think that RICHTER was talking about his keys at / for garage door...were the old Goldenveizer version of Mozart Sonatas was stored..!?

[truecrypt]

I understood what you were trying to say, but Richter was talking about his personal search for Mozart and it is not automatically applicable to Sofronitsky here.

Where did you find "panic instead of Fantasy"? This is an absurd! And BTW, KGB stuff doesn't apply here either...

[sam0xin]

Absurd....is when ADAGIO performs faster then allegretto..WITHOUT even SOSTENUTO..& sometimes even presto.You doesn't like my social version of criticizing. OK I'll be more real. This version of K396 is awful to me,& you are right about RICHTER...Sofronitsky can not be compared with RICHTER..he is ONE & ONLY.Simply good,Perfect & GENIUS are totally different values..!

[truecrypt]

Well... you are extremely emotional but not very persuasive...

[jpoiyacneo]

I rather think Sofronitsky's touch is perfect here, and the mood he set is very personal and nostalgic. Mozart's music is not always "light and bouncing". He suffered too.

[RabidCh]

Depends/varies widely, of course. You are not with the wrong idea with liking a different touch, but don't "hate" the other side...

[Gargantupimp]

great recording thanx 4 upload love this peice and love this performer!

[Lukecash12]

@sam0xin If we wanted your personal views on it, we would listen to you play.

[Lukecash12]

@sam0xin No, it is his interpretation. That is like saying Rostropovich didn't play Bach right. Music is heavily interpretative. Sofronitsky simply interpreted a fantasy by ingraining the dramatic, sonorous effects of the Russian school of piano performance.

Also, it must be what it must be. If you find it to be panicky, and not tragic enough, you simply haven't been versed in the context from which he derives his interpretations. His playing is WHITE HOT PASSION. That is his perspective.

[sam0xin]

@Lukecash12 p.s. simply it MUST be in tragic moods ....not as a menueTTO...genre .

[sam0xin]

@Lukecash12 I PERFECTLY know this masterpiece... & I know is not from Czerni's op.299...but URTEXT (original) marked by MOZART....in dimension of  ADAGIO ... Even if NOT ! performing of this work in this LEVEL of PANIC...& loosing ALL possible ideas on HUGE range of characters...AS FAST AS POSSIBLE !? It is JUST WRONG ! & out of logic...

[Lukecash12]

@sam0xin This is a fantasy. You should be able to notice that the rules have always been pretty loose when it comes to interpreting fantasies! Mozart would have no problem with the tempo in the performance, or I wouldn't suspect he would mind.

With that said, Mozart would probably dislike the intonation, occasional rubato, and "salon-like" layer of sentimentality attached to his works.

[FairLady023]

im playing this now!! :D

good song