I wanted to write a comment that could begin to do justice to this beautiful interpretation of a beautiful piece of music, and just find that there are no words for it. Listening to it is the perfect antidote to stressful day at work. Thanks, Paul.
This proves beyond all doubt that the men and women of the baroque era were indeed passionate and romantic in all things including their arts and music!
Paul, this is my favorite Scarlatti piece of all time....and one of my favorite classical works of them all, too. I loved your breathtaking performance!! Your pacing and interpretation are just perfect, as is your skillful and passionate touch on your piano! I like the slower pace and emotional pauses, which is also the way I always liked to play it myself. One of my piano teachers was so tough....she just loved to smack her pencil on the side of the piano and give me grief for trying to be passionate with Baroque pieces and would threaten the metronome....I hated that....although this piece has classical period flavors, too. It's been many years since I have played it now and your performance really inspires me to dig up those old sheets and start playing again :-))) BRAVO Paul!!! ~Jackie
i dont mean to be so offtopic but does anyone know a method to log back into an Instagram account..? I was stupid forgot my account password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me!
@Nathaniel Cullen I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process atm. I see it takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
I am learning this piece and it so useful to have the vertical view so I can see exactly you finger this. It was a reassurance that we generally choose very similar fingering!
Have you started to play yet? Many of us start piano because we hear someone play a piece we like instantly and badly want to be able to play it too. I head a friend of my mothers play Schubert's Impromptu Op.90 No.4 and that was it for me, I just had to play it. If you haven't started yet, I really hope you do ...
Hi Mr. Barton. The performance is beautiful and very much in the manner that I like to hear this piece. However, there is VERY loud and prominent percussive sounds on many downbeats. The only thing I could come up with is that these are the actual acoustics of pressing on the sustain pedal. It then makes me wonder if perhaps this is the undesired result of having such large DUAL diaphragms of the E700s and too close to the piano....... conjecture of course but there is of course some scientific reason for it. This also maybe why when so close to the strings I always see small diaphragm mics in stereo pair and LDs further away. Of course that gets into unwanted reflection if that’s the concern etc. Anyway, it would be amazing to hear it with a (literallly) bass drum-like sound occurring on all those 4s and 1s, because, again, the playing is extremely beautiful. Regards oh Btw: Tnx for demoing the apogee two channel.... I am DEFINITELY sold on it. Kind Regards
At 5:00 I suddenly hear the instrument as if it could have been a piano (à la Christofori or Silbermann from 1740 around the time when Domenico Scarlatti was still alive.
Paul, I love How you play the piano it sounds so beautiful and amazing i've started playing piano at a young age of 12 i been having tutors for piano and your videos are very helpful. Also i am planning on buying a piano a khun bosendorfer to be exact or should i buy a piano the same as yours.Can you play the rondo fantastique "el contrabandista" i would like to see that and also make a tutorial about it.
Hi, Barton! I'm accompanying your channel since the last week and I have to say: you're so talented. Really plays with soul. Thank you for these amazing performance and for the video tips too. I have the sensation of taking masterclasses via TH-cam when I watch your videos. I'd like to ask you something - and I hope receiving a very personal answer. I'm a self-taugh pianist. I love to play classical music and I play mainly by ear - without the music sheets, because I'm very slow with them. But I think that sometimes I don't use the correct fingertips. So what do you suggest me? I think this compromises a lot my technique, and because this I can't play very fast pieces, like some from Chopin and Liszt. Should I follow some kind of sequence or method? Thank you so much. Bye bye!
Hi Fabio ... thanks so much for the kind words. There are a good number of fine pianists that were not classically trained and play "by ear" as you do. This works extremely well for musicians that have a natural flair for improvisation. "Classical" music is written down with the human hand in mind, what 10 fingers are capable of doing at the piano. To play classical music fluently, a certain amount of disciplined study, especially for fingering, is almost indispensable if you wish to play a broad range of challenging classical pieces with a sense of technical freedom needed to concentrate on the most important part of playing - your interpretation. After many years experience fingering becomes completely intuitive, but to get to that point, I recommend you study musical notation from the very beginning until it becomes second nature - but combine this study with your natural gift for improvisation. These two approaches to playing piano will compliment each other.
+Paul Barton can you play the rondo fantastique el contrabandista and make a tutorial i am not the best. But i can play la campanella no problem but el contrabandista is way harder
@@Exelitious That's nonsense. This is a great piece to learn at 15 and without much experience. I'm a pianist. You should be ashamed discouraging young musicians from playing music they love
TheRealShadowBit Oh ok, I was just wondering because I was able to sight read this piece pretty easily, so I thought it was for beginners, but now that I think about it, I can see how a beginner might have trouble with this piece.
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I wanted to write a comment that could begin to do justice to this beautiful interpretation of a beautiful piece of music, and just find that there are no words for it. Listening to it is the perfect antidote to stressful day at work. Thanks, Paul.
This proves beyond all doubt that the men and women of the baroque era were indeed passionate and romantic in all things including their arts and music!
Simply beautiful. Good job, Paul - as usual! :) I love how you play the Scarlatti Sonatas!!
Beautifully done! There's more music in this sonata than in ten Liszt Spanish Fantasies.
i started playing piano like how many years but i stopped, just watching you make me play piano again, you inspired me bro, Amazing! Keep it up!
Thank you so much for this!!! I love this piece!!!
Beautiful. I love this piece.
Paul, this is my favorite Scarlatti piece of all time....and one of my favorite classical works of them all, too. I loved your breathtaking performance!! Your pacing and interpretation are just perfect, as is your skillful and passionate touch on your piano! I like the slower pace and emotional pauses, which is also the way I always liked to play it myself. One of my piano teachers was so tough....she just loved to smack her pencil on the side of the piano and give me grief for trying to be passionate with Baroque pieces and would threaten the metronome....I hated that....although this piece has classical period flavors, too. It's been many years since I have played it now and your performance really inspires me to dig up those old sheets and start playing again :-))) BRAVO Paul!!! ~Jackie
Jackie Perks - Classical Jams I could not agree with your comment on this piece more! You echoed my thoughts verbatim !!
i dont mean to be so offtopic but does anyone know a method to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was stupid forgot my account password. I appreciate any tricks you can give me!
@Marvin Adam instablaster =)
@Nathaniel Cullen I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process atm.
I see it takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
@Nathaniel Cullen It worked and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy!
Thank you so much you really help me out :D
So much beautiful, Paul
i love your playing and that you chose to play the piece in full. lovely.
I like this Sonata very much,thanks~~
Maravillosa interpretación Maestro...!!!
It’s so beautiful!!!!! You interpret this piece amazingly well
I am learning this piece and it so useful to have the vertical view so I can see exactly you finger this. It was a reassurance that we generally choose very similar fingering!
may u do some tutorials 2? :D
teaching step by step how to play a piece.
Always love your recordings man
Always nice suggestions from Paul Barton. Thanks!!!
This comes rather close to Emil Gilels whom I consider still the best. I didn't hear it yet with the second part repeated, but it fits very well here!
so beautiful, thank you
I want to play the piano so badly! You're so amazing!
Have you started to play yet? Many of us start piano because we hear someone play a piece we like instantly and badly want to be able to play it too. I head a friend of my mothers play Schubert's Impromptu Op.90 No.4 and that was it for me, I just had to play it. If you haven't started yet, I really hope you do ...
+Paul Barton No, but I will try to begin immediately. Thanks.
+Paul Barton for how long have you played piano? Just curious
why do you want to play it badly? try to play it nicely ;))))
Hi Mr. Barton. The performance is beautiful and very much in the manner that I like to hear this piece. However, there is VERY loud and prominent percussive sounds on many downbeats. The only thing I could come up with is that these are the actual acoustics of pressing on the sustain pedal. It then makes me wonder if perhaps this is the undesired result of having such large DUAL diaphragms of the E700s and too close to the piano....... conjecture of course but there is of course some scientific reason for it. This also maybe why when so close to the strings I always see small diaphragm mics in stereo pair and LDs further away. Of course that gets into unwanted reflection if that’s the concern etc. Anyway, it would be amazing to hear it with a (literallly) bass drum-like sound occurring on all those 4s and 1s, because, again, the playing is extremely beautiful. Regards oh Btw: Tnx for demoing the apogee two channel.... I am DEFINITELY sold on it. Kind Regards
At 5:00 I suddenly hear the instrument as if it could have been a piano (à la Christofori or Silbermann from 1740 around the time when Domenico Scarlatti was still alive.
At 3:53-3:35, what we see Paul playing is not what we hear, am I right?
Paul, I love How you play the piano it sounds so beautiful and amazing i've started playing piano at a young age of 12 i been having tutors for piano and your videos are very helpful. Also i am planning on buying a piano a khun bosendorfer to be exact or should i buy a piano the same as yours.Can you play the rondo fantastique "el contrabandista" i would like to see that and also make a tutorial about it.
Hi, Barton! I'm accompanying your channel since the last week and I have to say: you're so talented. Really plays with soul. Thank you for these amazing performance and for the video tips too. I have the sensation of taking masterclasses via TH-cam when I watch your videos. I'd like to ask you something - and I hope receiving a very personal answer. I'm a self-taugh pianist. I love to play classical music and I play mainly by ear - without the music sheets, because I'm very slow with them. But I think that sometimes I don't use the correct fingertips. So what do you suggest me? I think this compromises a lot my technique, and because this I can't play very fast pieces, like some from Chopin and Liszt. Should I follow some kind of sequence or method? Thank you so much. Bye bye!
Hi Fabio ... thanks so much for the kind words. There are a good number of fine pianists that were not classically trained and play "by ear" as you do. This works extremely well for musicians that have a natural flair for improvisation. "Classical" music is written down with the human hand in mind, what 10 fingers are capable of doing at the piano. To play classical music fluently, a certain amount of disciplined study, especially for fingering, is almost indispensable if you wish to play a broad range of challenging classical pieces with a sense of technical freedom needed to concentrate on the most important part of playing - your interpretation. After many years experience fingering becomes completely intuitive, but to get to that point, I recommend you study musical notation from the very beginning until it becomes second nature - but combine this study with your natural gift for improvisation. These two approaches to playing piano will compliment each other.
+Paul Barton can you play the rondo fantastique el contrabandista and make a tutorial i am not the best. But i can play la campanella no problem but el contrabandista is way harder
How about K.54 (as Horowitz did on his very nice Scarlatti recordings CD, track 2)? Wouldn't it be a pleasure to hear it from your hands?
I don't know if you know it but it would be amazing if you could do a tutorial on Rachmaninoff's Love's Sorrow.
Beautifully played, but I hear a steady thudding sound, which I assume is the pedal.
I started the piano this year and i am 15. Can i master it soon it if i am learning on my own?
if you spend 8 hours a day with highly productive pratice then maybe in about 6 years if you are a prodigy
@@Exelitious That's nonsense. This is a great piece to learn at 15 and without much experience. I'm a pianist. You should be ashamed discouraging young musicians from playing music they love
it's a great piece to learn. I hope with all my heart you didn't pay any attention to idiots who shouldn't be allowed online
Hi Paul, would you consider doing 3 Fantastic Dances by Shostakovich? I need help with the Fingering
About Sonata K. 455?
Does this piece use polyrhythms?
My friend is a beginner at piano and he needs a recital piece for his first year, is this accessible to him or is it too advanced?
It depends in how much he practices, but it is highly unlikely this is reachable for him, just my opinion though...
TheRealShadowBit Oh ok, I was just wondering because I was able to sight read this piece pretty easily, so I thought it was for beginners, but now that I think about it, I can see how a beginner might have trouble with this piece.
I would say, 3-4 years at 2h a day, but for some people it could take 6 years (2h/a day), and for some prodigies or young people not even 2 years
yea I just started my second year of piano and I can sight read this so...
Naah this sonata is already ABRSM 5-6
mhm
Lilo Trinh