13-Year Old Russian Prodigy Daria Korotkova Plays 1st Movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata

Countless children play this piece in countless piano recitals, but almost none play it as it should be played. The brilliant prodigy Daria Korotkova is amazing here, capturing the hypnotic magic of this famous movement at the very beginning and maintaining it in one long, seamless phrase, from beginning to end. The line, the legato, the elegance of the phrasing, all go to show why this extraordinary young pianist is properly called a prodigy.

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Music

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• Beethoven
• Moonlight
• Sonata

[twolefthanz]

Herr Beethoven would have been impressed. If he could have heard it.

[EdmundStAustell]

@twolefthanz Thank you very much. Yes, I agree. She is remarkable for one so young.

[noxema2000]

I agree ED she really feels the emotion of the music and lets it flow through the piano .....Just saying : )

[EdmundStAustell]

@noxema2000  Yes, I agree! Thanks for the comment!

[DanielBerlinTV]

It's one of the most emotional pieces of music of all time so it's hard for children to connect with the pain and sadness in it. Daria does connect with it so I hope she continues with music, as it's easy to read music but quite another to play music.

[chris53010]

I just love it . She played it so well. She is a talent...