In music, sometimes, you find what TS Eliot described as the "still point of the turning world". I think he meant moments when time stands still, or at any rate your mind briefly comes to rest. I didn't know this piece until TH-cam found it for me. It is one of those moments. Thank you so much for sharing.
I love Scarlatti and this is played so tenderly and with the utmost joy and emotion by Maria. This is the pinnacle of beauty to me :-) Thanks so much for posting! ~Jackie
Por paradójico que parezca, Maria João aúna lo sencillo y lo sublime en un toque insólito que pocos saben dar a este compositor, a menudo, tenido por trivial. Ahí radica el talento de esta maestra incomparable.
Pires is musically a vibrant , unique performer . She's tough but ideally I don't know how this small woman managed to build a world -wide respected career ina world full of fire-breathing virtuosi and innovative tricksters making Bach sound new ! It's a testament to her personality , talent , and ideals . How did she unearth this really most glorious Scarlatti sonata . 550 and I'm still discovering wonders that Pletnev, Michelangeli , Horowitz , Gilels,Scott Ross,Hantai,K.Gilbert,Pinnock and a thousand others have not put before us . This one - WOW ! Another world and time but communicates humanly N O W !
So much fuss about it! Zacharias recorded it over 30 years ago and this Pires version adds nothing to that one. Very strange that you missed it, speaking as you do, like an expert Scarlattian. It is a rather known Sonata, one of the most usually played due to its apparent simplicity. Look for it in Spotify, for instance, and you'll find scores of versions (and fairly good ones, many of them, since it is so clearly and frankly written that it is not hard to catch the soul of it)
@@miguellunagrande6529 Thankyou. I haven't heard Zacharias in anything but Mozart. So kappy to hear he has recorded Scarlatti . Will find this . I'm indeed no expert in anything though i try orchestration my piano training didn't go far enough .This k.208 seems to go so far out like vocal music -indeed .
Her expression in the phrase is the closest thing to a speaking voice . The simplest 2 notes here many of us can't begin to approximate it's like a breath and the small rises and all the little details that tell us we have a true musician devoted to musicality .Watching he teach the Beethoven eroica variations I cried when she showed a student the organization of the 16th notes in the harmonic background in the left hand had to sound pulseless , [NO TIME ] "All time is yours " she says in this passage which is also very necessary in middle and late Beethoven op.53 ,many places in op.57 countless music after op.79 . It scares me to think if one doesn't have the imagination all the technique and knowhow in the world will not provide great musical thought!!! YEs , her depth , her freedom from the tryanny of the beat and measure . Such thoughtfulness makes her music making spiritual .Peple alwasy talk about Lipatti and Haskil so they must have known this too .Ultimate freedoms obey the law you cannot have rubato without a pulse .this is a difficult thing in music ! Forget Cortot there is only Pires now !
Half of this video's views are mine, I swear lol...Maria performed this piece so well that it's hard not be moved, tbh I don't think I'd ever get tired of this, masterfully played with such delicate poignancy, bravo! If anyone's wondering, the piece, Sonata in A Major, K.208 is by the Baroque Italian composer D. Scarlatti.
Easy to play the notes but impossible for many of us to speak it as MUSICAL THOUGHT !!! What she does here is I think remarkable compared to so many who make careers out of playing Scarlatti . Nows I want to rehear Weissenberg, Horowitz and the perfection of Pogorelich's DG account. I have never heard such perfection in studio recording(where anything can be made to sound miraculous ) as Pogorelich gets . I don't think its humanly possible to get the sound, attacks etc. from a piano as the recording suggests . I wish more knowledgable pianists would talk about what is doable on some recordings and what is not possible .
Pablo D Of course Maria Joao IS THÉ BEST pianiste and also a great humain beeing I vas thé great pleasure To meet her twice in Brussels after a concert she impressed me a lot by her simplicity and kindness
Pablo D I don't agree, her style is too delicate and more evocative of Chopin than Scarlatti or Bach. One of the best exponents of Scarlatti was Wanda Landowska, but of course this was a very long time ago Personally, I see Ritarno Akamatsu as the most brilliant pianists there is today. He has an amazing technique, and musicality, compared to many of the up and coming pianists some of whom seem very concerned with a showy style and exhibitionism.
bravo maria joao.... keep playing, please.... always.. “To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.” ― Fernando Pessoa. Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Teu exagera ou exclui. Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és No mínimo que fazes. Assim em cada lago a lua toda Brilha, porque alta vive. ― Fernando Pessoa. you inspired my music and my life @2-nY
"One thing we can say about music is that we can do our best to grasp it and teach it, but there will always be one thing missing this way - grace - the unexpected miracle which gives music its true worth. This ‘je ne sais quoi’ is what drives the composer to compose. It is grace which invites the musician- body and soul- to master his instrument and deepen his understanding. It is grace which attracts music lovers to come to concerts, to be part of a precious and unique event: the communication of this certain something, which is part of everyone’s make-up. The requirement for this ‘transmission’ is not only aesthetic, but ethical: music, like all art, is part of the mystery that shapes humans." [Maria Joao Pires]
Yes, you made a mistake, but 206 is even more of a wonder than this one; it is as deep, dark and cristal-clear at the same time as a dream under the orange blossoms of a Spanish garden in a spring night. Try it, discover a hidden gem or whole treasure (Perahia has a decent version of it-or Scott's one, though the metallical sound of the harpsichord is not the right thing for it... in my opinion, of course)
Maria João Pires, for me, should be heard (witnessed/experienced) live or at least through an exquisite recording (and certainly on a great prepared piano). Otherwise you loose in any extent this gem pianist and end up listening "only" a great pianist.
Luis de Orueta, pues claro que era consciente, hablas como si lo que dejó escrito fuera todo lo que tenía en mente y corazón. Como si todo lo que no da una versión midi y metronómica lo pusiéramos nosotros, los post-románticos contemporáneos. Estoy seguro que no, que entonces no se anotara la dinámica y la agógica no significa que no existieran. Scarlatti tenía una forma de escribir para clave que “suple” , en cierto modo, el problema de la falta de dinámica de este instrumento que sólo contaba para eso con el recurso de los dobles teclados y a veces los registros. Por eso, la versión expresiva y en piano es, en mi opinión, la correcta, porque del pozo seco nadie saca agua cristalina. Si no, prueba a tocar Los Pajaritos o el Porompompero a lo romántico, ya verás como no hay dios que lo arregle 😜
She is not making changes. I am reading the score and she is following it faithfully. Of course every performer is free to play the ornaments as they wish. Besides there are alternative versions of most of Scarlatti´'s sonatas (a real mess for scholars to solve) and perhaps you have a different version.
There is no such thing as a text in music. You can't write all the things you want to be played precisely. Some composers tried (debussy, satie...) but in earlier pieces there is nothing told to do. Pianists must find their ways it's the only reason why they keep playing others' pieces. Their is enough pleasure in finding in others' pieces something we can feel finely. She is doing an amazing job here.
You are welcome. I got that information from a book I am reading called Year of Wonder, by Clemency Burton-Hill. Today’s chapter was about this piece. It’s an excellent book, if you love classical music!
This is almost pedant, clear and mathematical and I can better understand it than like for example Milkina playing Scarlatti (just listened). No rush, just calm... People are so different!
Iivari Dark Not played in the right spirit, this is not music from the Romantic Period,. She is not accustomed to music for the harpsichord, and may never have played on one, she has greatly misinterpreted the playing of Scarlatti.
How is it with 550 of these Sonatas being investigated at least since Tausig I've never heard anyone play this one. You'd think it would be anthologized everywhere.Kirkpatrick must have recorded how could it not have completely captured Horowitz or pogo or landowska or anyone who's made selections. There is nothing on the planet like it the way Pires plays it.
I assume you mean because of the prevalent rubato? I wouldn't go so far as saying Chopin but I do find it a bit distracting despite her insanely beautiful tone and obvious musicality
There is a great difference between a pianoforte and a clavicenbalo,Scarlatti played a clavicembalo.Anyway listen to Jean Rondeau to have an idea of what I'm sayng.
O a Scott Ross, para tocar Scarlatti no basta solo tener un clavecin, sino otras cosas, y por ejemplo ese rubato y el uso ocasional del pedal no ayudan mucho.
The resemblance is not coincidental. Chopin loved Scarlatti, collected manuscripts of his music (only 30 sonatas had been published at this time), and was clearly influenced by him.
Love her, love her playing, love the piece itself. Perfection.
Maria is one of true and real poets of piano music.
This sublime music is not of this world at all - t is heavenly joy and peace flowing through this great artist!
Que paz Maria João. Gratidão! PAZ PLENA. 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🎶🎹🎼🙏🏼💕💕💕💕💕.
Maravillosa como siempre. Abrazo desde Uruguay.
De quarentena em Lisboa ! Desempenho doutro mundo ! Obrigado !
In music, sometimes, you find what TS Eliot described as the "still point of the turning world". I think he meant moments when time stands still, or at any rate your mind briefly comes to rest. I didn't know this piece until TH-cam found it for me. It is one of those moments.
Thank you so much for sharing.
What a gift to the world! Thanks for sharing.
Les interprétations sublimes de Maria Joao Pires nous conduisent dans l'au-delà ... Je l'adore, elle est une immense pianiste.
So beautiful!!!!!!
She is my favorite pianist.
Прекрасное исполнение, талантливо,Маэстро! БРАВО! ВАЛЕРИЙ ШПАНАГЕЛЬ МОСКВА.
Always brings a tear to my eye...
Just poetry this is to think out loud in music
Beautiful
Pure beauty. I wish I could play this sonata like that some day
sound made of pure kindness and love, wish the world had more people like Pires, long life to this invisible saint, portuguese muse .
So lovely ! Maria is the greatest !
Grande Maria João Pires !!!
Magnificent and emotional performance, as always.
Such a beautiful piece
그녀의 연주는 첫 소절 들으면 바로 홖 사람을 끄는 마력이 있다. 고귀하면서 명확한 연주 그러면서도 대단히 아름다운 음색 - 우리 시대 최고의 피아니스트 아닐까
I love Scarlatti and this is played so tenderly and with the utmost joy and emotion by Maria. This is the pinnacle of beauty to me :-) Thanks so much for posting! ~Jackie
Wonderful Maria, with her amazing Scarlatti
Grande apresentação, belíssima e sublime.
So beautiful !!!!!!
Por paradójico que parezca, Maria João aúna lo sencillo y lo sublime en un toque insólito que pocos saben dar a este compositor, a menudo, tenido por trivial. Ahí radica el talento de esta maestra incomparable.
Zou niet weten wat hier triviaal aan is....
Trivial?.Domenico Scarlatti era un genio absoluto.
Pires is musically a vibrant , unique performer . She's tough but ideally I don't know how this small woman managed to build a world -wide respected career ina world full of fire-breathing virtuosi and innovative tricksters making Bach sound new ! It's a testament to her personality , talent , and ideals . How did she unearth this really most glorious Scarlatti sonata . 550 and I'm still discovering wonders that Pletnev, Michelangeli , Horowitz , Gilels,Scott Ross,Hantai,K.Gilbert,Pinnock and a thousand others have not put before us . This one - WOW ! Another world and time but communicates humanly N O W !
So much fuss about it! Zacharias recorded it over 30 years ago and this Pires version adds nothing to that one. Very strange that you missed it, speaking as you do, like an expert Scarlattian. It is a rather known Sonata, one of the most usually played due to its apparent simplicity. Look for it in Spotify, for instance, and you'll find scores of versions (and fairly good ones, many of them, since it is so clearly and frankly written that it is not hard to catch the soul of it)
@@miguellunagrande6529 Thankyou. I haven't heard Zacharias in anything but Mozart. So kappy to hear he has recorded Scarlatti . Will find this . I'm indeed no expert in anything though i try orchestration my piano training didn't go far enough .This k.208 seems to go so far out like vocal music -indeed .
Écoutez la musicalité de D. Vassilakis et de Michelangeli.. .celestes
¡Poesía y belleza, gracias Maria Joao!
Heavenly music, perfect performance.
She is a true poet!
Her expression in the phrase is the closest thing to a speaking voice . The simplest 2 notes here many of us can't begin to approximate it's like a breath and the small rises and all the little details that tell us we have a true musician devoted to musicality .Watching he teach the Beethoven eroica variations I cried when she showed a student the organization of the 16th notes in the harmonic background in the left hand had to sound pulseless , [NO TIME ] "All time is yours " she says in this passage which is also very necessary in middle and late Beethoven op.53 ,many places in op.57 countless music after op.79 . It scares me to think if one doesn't have the imagination all the technique and knowhow in the world will not provide great musical thought!!!
YEs , her depth , her freedom from the tryanny of the beat and measure . Such thoughtfulness makes her music making spiritual .Peple alwasy talk about Lipatti and Haskil so they must have known this too .Ultimate freedoms obey the law you cannot have rubato without a pulse .this is a difficult thing in music ! Forget Cortot there is only Pires now !
Half of this video's views are mine, I swear lol...Maria performed this piece so well that it's hard not be moved, tbh I don't think I'd ever get tired of this, masterfully played with such delicate poignancy, bravo!
If anyone's wondering, the piece, Sonata in A Major, K.208 is by the Baroque Italian composer D. Scarlatti.
@focusezz6947 - That is exactly what I was wondering. Thank you for that important information. It should be in the video description.
Exceptional graceful pianist.
its true.. what a gift to the world :)
ゆったりしていて（まったりしてなく）、内の音や低音の付けかたが自然に聞こえて、メロディーを浮き立たせていて、本当の音楽を聴いた感じです。素晴らしい!!
I am listening it more and more...
Thanks
How beautiful sound ^_^
Thanks for posting.
Très belle, sensible et émouvante interprétation.
This is so incredibly beautiful
Maria Joao Pires! good job 🎹🎶👏👏
This is an easy song to play but she nails the dynamics and expression and her tempo is perfect
SONG?!??! YOU FUCKING IDIOT. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND MUSIC. GOSH
Easy to play the notes but impossible for many of us to speak it as MUSICAL THOUGHT !!! What she does here is I think remarkable compared to so many who make careers out of playing Scarlatti . Nows I want to rehear Weissenberg, Horowitz and the perfection of Pogorelich's DG account. I have never heard such perfection in studio recording(where anything can be made to sound miraculous ) as Pogorelich gets . I don't think its humanly possible to get the sound, attacks etc. from a piano as the recording suggests . I wish more knowledgable pianists would talk about what is doable on some recordings and what is not possible .
Bellissimo!
Maravilhoso.
Love this performance. Bravo
This is my next guitar transcription to master. One of favorite Scarlatti.
C'est délicieux.
If there was a Nobel Prize for playin piano, it would be for Maria Joao....
+Pablo D Il genio italiano che ha inventato la musica scritta, il pianoforte,il violino...
Pablo D Of course Maria Joao IS THÉ BEST pianiste and also a great humain beeing I vas thé great pleasure To meet her twice in Brussels after a concert she impressed me a lot by her simplicity and kindness
Pablo D I don't agree, her style is too delicate and more evocative of Chopin than Scarlatti or Bach. One of the best exponents of Scarlatti was Wanda Landowska, but of course this was a very long time ago Personally, I see Ritarno Akamatsu as the most brilliant pianists there is today. He has an amazing technique, and musicality, compared to many of the up and coming pianists some of whom seem very concerned with a showy style and exhibitionism.
Yes totally she is divine
Beautiful humane pianism
feel as if I were in heaven.
JUST BEAUTIFUL
Brilliant piece
Gorgeous watching her play.
Beautiful music making!
best I have heard this one played.
Maravilhosa!🎹👏🏼
bravo maria joao.... keep playing, please.... always..
“To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.”
― Fernando Pessoa.
Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada
Teu exagera ou exclui.
Sê todo em cada coisa. Põe quanto és
No mínimo que fazes.
Assim em cada lago a lua toda
Brilha, porque alta vive.
― Fernando Pessoa.
you inspired my music and my life
@2-nY
"One thing we can say about music is that we can do our best to grasp it and teach it, but there will always be one thing missing this way - grace - the unexpected miracle which gives music its true worth. This ‘je ne sais quoi’ is what drives the composer to compose. It is grace which invites the musician- body and soul- to master his instrument and deepen his understanding. It is grace which attracts music lovers to come to concerts, to be part of a precious and unique event: the communication of this certain something, which is part of everyone’s make-up. The requirement for this ‘transmission’ is not only aesthetic, but ethical: music, like all art, is part of the mystery that shapes humans." [Maria Joao Pires]
Where is this from?? It's beautiful!
Beautiful even on Piano 🖤, loved it in both classical guitar and piano
wonderful pianist, wonderful person
This is a balm and an antidote to cynicism. 🙏❤️
The impeccable K206 -- said by Scott Ross (the first to record Scarlatti's entire catalogue of 555 sonatas) to be his absolute favorite.
Actually it's K 208.
Yes, you made a mistake, but 206 is even more of a wonder than this one; it is as deep, dark and cristal-clear at the same time as a dream under the orange blossoms of a Spanish garden in a spring night. Try it, discover a hidden gem or whole treasure (Perahia has a decent version of it-or Scott's one, though the metallical sound of the harpsichord is not the right thing for it... in my opinion, of course)
Maria João Pires, for me, should be heard (witnessed/experienced) live or at least through an exquisite recording (and certainly on a great prepared piano). Otherwise you loose in any extent this gem pianist and end up listening "only" a great pianist.
That was sweet!
muito lindo............
meravigliosa
Beautiful
Pure joy 🤗❤️
...MARAVILLA...
BRAVO!
Sublime...
Pure magie...
bellissimo!!!!!
Wonderful!
... mamma, che bellezza!
Uno se pregunta si Scarlatti era consciente de toda la emocion que se podia extraer de esta sonata suya
Luis de Orueta, pues claro que era consciente, hablas como si lo que dejó escrito fuera todo lo que tenía en mente y corazón. Como si todo lo que no da una versión midi y metronómica lo pusiéramos nosotros, los post-románticos contemporáneos. Estoy seguro que no, que entonces no se anotara la dinámica y la agógica no significa que no existieran. Scarlatti tenía una forma de escribir para clave que “suple” , en cierto modo, el problema de la falta de dinámica de este instrumento que sólo contaba para eso con el recurso de los dobles teclados y a veces los registros. Por eso, la versión expresiva y en piano es, en mi opinión, la correcta, porque del pozo seco nadie saca agua cristalina. Si no, prueba a tocar Los Pajaritos o el Porompompero a lo romántico, ya verás como no hay dios que lo arregle 😜
Si. Era napoletana
Napoletano
Me pregunto lo mismo, pues se tocaba al clavecín, lo cual ocultaba mucho de posibles emociones
Siempre❤️
この曲聴くと映画の深夜食堂を思い出します
As high as spirit can rise
paz y belleza, angeles y musas, eternity...maria...joao...pires...love...amor
Yes...lovely...
Hello Which album is this piano come from, would you share the name please, This performance really touched me
She is not making changes. I am reading the score and she is following it faithfully. Of course every performer is free to play the ornaments as they wish. Besides there are alternative versions of most of Scarlatti´'s sonatas (a real mess for scholars to solve) and perhaps you have a different version.
How does she get that incredible sound out of a Yamaha?
What is this piece please, or which piece is it extracted from?
Keyboard Sonata in A major, K.208 (Scarlatti, Domenico)
山田圭二郎
Thank you sincerely. : ))
There were Domenico and Alessandro Scarlatti. And this is Frederik Scarlatti.
There is no such thing as a text in music. You can't write all the things you want to be played precisely. Some composers tried (debussy, satie...) but in earlier pieces there is nothing told to do. Pianists must find their ways it's the only reason why they keep playing others' pieces. Their is enough pleasure in finding in others' pieces something we can feel finely. She is doing an amazing job here.
another great one, leaves us home-bound pianists looking like fools.
this is gorgeous! - anyone know what k. it is?
Kk208
@@barrypeterson6725 thanks so much!
You are welcome. I got that information from a book I am reading called Year of Wonder, by Clemency Burton-Hill. Today’s chapter was about this piece. It’s an excellent book, if you love classical music!
@@barrypeterson6725 will for sure have to check that out!
This is almost pedant, clear and mathematical and I can better understand it than like for example Milkina playing Scarlatti (just listened). No rush, just calm... People are so different!
Iivari Dark Not played in the right spirit, this is not music from the Romantic Period,. She is not accustomed to music for the harpsichord, and may never have played on one, she has greatly misinterpreted the playing of Scarlatti.
let people enjoy things@@valobrien3281
I think Scarlatti really liked JS Bach. This could be one of his many arioso adagios...
She's awesome by the way!!
This is K208 in A Major I believe?
Yes it is
WHO puts up a classical music video without even putting the title of the composition on top?
I think that Ms. Maria Joao Pires is to be united with Ms. Clara Haskil as an agel of piano playing
don't forge Alicia de Larrocha!
How is it with 550 of these Sonatas being investigated at least since Tausig I've never heard anyone play this one. You'd think it would be anthologized everywhere.Kirkpatrick must have recorded how could it not have completely captured Horowitz or pogo or landowska or anyone who's made selections. There is nothing on the planet like it the way Pires plays it.
La-do#-fa #mi....e si apre un Universo....
... asi soy yo... un detalle... un susurro... un espacio...
She's definitely making some changes to the text.
Linea diretta Italia Paradiso!
sounds like chopin, not scarlatti...
You are right,Scarlatti must be played with your feet.
I assume you mean because of the prevalent rubato? I wouldn't go so far as saying Chopin but I do find it a bit distracting despite her insanely beautiful tone and obvious musicality
There is a great difference between a pianoforte and a clavicenbalo,Scarlatti played a clavicembalo.Anyway listen to Jean Rondeau to have an idea of what I'm sayng.
O a Scott Ross, para tocar Scarlatti no basta solo tener un clavecin, sino otras cosas, y por ejemplo ese rubato y el uso ocasional del pedal no ayudan mucho.
The resemblance is not coincidental. Chopin loved Scarlatti, collected manuscripts of his music (only 30 sonatas had been published at this time), and was clearly influenced by him.
Ricardo Gómez Grato Mº Bom
Scarlatti like Schubert should be left in the hands of piano poets, easy compositions, but only age does give you the free expression to execute right
K.208