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.
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
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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!
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
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 ...
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.
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 RU-vid 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
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.
@@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.
