Gilels plays Scarlatti Sonata in D minor K 141 L 422

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Sonata in D minor K 141 L 422
Played by Emil Gilels

Picture: Lev Kamenev (1833-1886)
Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery near Zvenigorod

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[Dankbarkeit1980]

This interpretation touches me, beautiful sound, the music flows and his phrases are realy excellent. Gilels could play fast, he could play this sonata realy fast and he decided to give in this piece a new dimension through this tempo.

[bersilu]

¡Grande! Una de las mejores interpretaciones en piano de la K141 que he oído.

[mrrkdino]

I so agreee

[DJPsionix]

What I love about this piece is how interpretations can be completely different. Argerich approached it virtuosically, Gilels is wonderfully expressive, and I've heard it played on harpsichord in a manner expressing some kind of profound brooding horror. Either way, I think as long as the interpretation is making brain cells fire and inspiring or provoking people, then it's successful :-)

[KlaustoIsakara]

I tend to avoid piano interpretations of the Scarlatti's K141 since I love harpsichord much more than piano, but I admit that his one really touched me.

J'ai tendance à éviter les interprétations au piano de cette sonate, car je préfère largement le clavecin au piano, mais cette fois je suis comblé!

[mmoynan]

The two interpretations and people couldn't be farther apart from one another. Why bother trying to decide which is "better"?

Apples to oranges.

[tony176000]

Ah, I am torn. I think she obviously plays it much faster and FEROCE! But is that the best way to perform it? I just don't know. It is originally labeled a "Toccatta" I think, so in that regard, BLOW IT OUTTA THE WATER, go as fast as you technically can. OR, slow it down and take the more Baroque/expressive route.

Hmmm....I think Martha is a little to machine-like in her artistic interpretation, but the tempo is impressive.

[Renshen1957]

I prefer Martha's Argerich, Gilels is an artist who prefers to play Baroque music on the slow side. Not to everyone's taste.

[Perkeno]

IMHO, this is the right tempo. Usually, ppl take this way too fast; it's *not* meant to show off your repeated-note skills. Great as always, Emil Gilels.

[simcha181818]

With all due respect to Gilels, Martha Argerich's Scarlatti, Sonata k. 141 is superior to his. 

[adamsrj06]

At points such as 1:45, the theme sounds very similar to that of the cat fugue, is it identical?