Gulda plays Mozart Fantasy in C minor (1)

I have enormous respect for Mr. Gulda, but this performance is boring and asleep. His constant use of the sustain pedal is peculiar to me. The entire piece is supposed to be "tighter". Not louder, but tighter. The chords in B minor near the beginning are supposed to sound like a rush followed by silence. When the D major passage comes in the high melody needs to have staccatos mixed in. Melodies should be "flute-like".
More *tuck-tuck* and less *wah-wah-wah*.

obdeniye, part 2 of Gulda's interpretation prooves that your critics seems too hard! xD

Friedrich Gulda really is one of the greatest interpretator of Mozart's sonatas and fantasies! :D

I say Mozart sat down at his piano, or desk, basically, to create his works, and his most inspirational idea came to him: How can I create such a heightened You Tube argument that will create a total confusion to depict my work and personality. I've said this countless times and again, I say: you cannot simply say something is entirely one thing, and you cannot take someone else's words to mean only one unchangeable fact. Come on guys! All information is useful! None can be ruled out!!

@brent78900
i say that mozart did not sit down to impress anyone. i believe he was compelled to write music that reflected his personal feelings and what he heard around him. if he were here, he would call us some very bad names!

Are you suuuurrreee? :-P

why are there are so many comments in regard to theory? try having a musical experience instead of picking apart the movements, measures or chords. no one in this century can touch the brilliance of mozart, so one sounds idiotic to critique his work. and... gulda plays this piece far better than most other vids posted here. some i have listened to make it seem like the pianist is trying to kill the piano and blow everyone's eardrums.

try to understand this.
you can't compare mozart with beethoven or with chopin or schubert ....
u can just say that u like mozart more than beethoven or i dont know what.
but these historican men were to MUCH for us.j.s Bach- polypony--mozart--clasic..beet hoven---classic&romantic---sch ubert romantic, Chopin---romantic---usw---unti l yann tiersen xD

words like romantic..were times. WE, today call the music romantic. but mozart didnt sit down and say: ok, nor a write a classic one.
...idiot

Great job!

I think both Beethoven and Hummel are the major composers who brought about the Romantic era in music.
In Mozart's works, we can find some late pieces that are "romantic" in style, although he didn't experiment with this as much as Beethoven. I think you should also give credit to other composers for contributing to the creation of Romanticism.