Mozart Piano Sonata No 11 in A Major, K. 331: I. Andante Grazioso (Marnie Laird, Piano)

[@Njogu7]

I appreciate for being in this digital age when we can access such magical pieces.

[@jasonyang9653]

This movement is so underrated. The 3rd movement I feel unfairly overshadows this masterpiece.

[@patricianock9234]

Agree 100%-I never get tired of listening to this. It’s one of my favorite pieces.

[@patricianock9234]

I could practice a hundred years and never be able to play as perfectly as you. What an absolute privilege to listen to this.

[@stephenlaird2370]

Marnie, your Mozart is so even and gorgeous. The piano sounds wonderful. The recording is so clear and enriching. But your interpretation and performance is so incredibly moving and engaging that I get completely lost in the music and I just don't want to come back. Those of us that can appreciate this beauty are so fortunate. Thank you so much.

[@無問西東]

Same

[@無問西東]

Who is Mozart?

[@skularatna8136]

@@無問西東are you being serious ?

[@francisdavidcabrejosramos3293]

Daniel Barenboim toca el n.º 11 en la mayor, K.331 mucho mejor.

[@mosesCordovero-uw5vw]

lol ha ha very funny

[@nspfc]

It lifted my soul from the depths of hopelessness to the realization that there is a God who cares for us

[@joncreasy8]

Her skills are meant to cheer up the sad and lift up those in need!

[@clonesoundtrack1249]

Theme 0:01 Variation I 1:52 Variation II 3:30 Variation III 5:06 Variation IV 6:59 Variation V 8:54 Variation VI 13:25

[@cianoneill_]

Thanks

[@leemotosuwa]

Thank you

[@Jerry-tt8du]

Var. 6 is the best

[@karenchang1661]

❤️

[@vortexfitness44]

@@cianoneill_ LEGEND COMMENT

[@steveholcomb1904]

you are amazing, God Bless you !

[@AdamOthman47]

Easily my favorite Mozart piece, you played it flawlessly. Thanks for posting.

[@weiketao9644]

I have heard Murray Peharia's version numerous times, but never realized this piece could sound so beautiful - thanks to the holy trinity of the composer, piano, and the pianist.

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

I miss my mom , she could play piano by ear AND read music to play.

[@billbelchee1441]

If Mozart had Internet access, he would like and subscribe to your channel. Your music is beautiful. Thank you for this.

[@Dave1507]

and he would curse the damn ads tha interrupt almost every video no matter how long..

[@davidherman29]

Mozart was such a genius, to make so many variations on the same theme is just incredible, and played so beautifully, that Mozart would be proud of you Marnie ❤️❤️

[@junenovae]

The piano set up is lovely. In the corner, with the cute window frames and a view on the beautiful nature, wood on the floor and the shelves with simple deco, a plant with some lights, the comfy bench, and the piano itself with some small ornementations and a really good sound..I would spend hours playing there and be able to feel so many different emotions

[@marilynnjefferson8525]

Never before have I heard this piece played so beautifully. I love this work, but never more than this. Thank you so very much.

[@Urbex-Exploit]

my favorite Mozart piece

[@chuckfinley3542]

Marnie, you play with great sensitivity and fidelity to Mozart. What a treasure your music is.

[@KegPatcha]

Amazing. This is almost like being with you in the presence of music. I can almost smell the wood of the piano and your perfume impregnating the room, hearing Mozart so intimately. What a moment this is!! Thank you for sharing your talent and inspiration to the world.

[@laurenth7187]

You play that better than many great pianists.

[@swale12]

The music made the new day brighter and heartening. Thank You.

[@fabiopratovecchi2067]

Marnie sei bella e brava .. suoni come un angelo. Grazie!

[@StephenBryen]

I love all of Mozart's tricks, and they are played here perfectly and with spirit. Excellent. If only Mozart had such a wonderful instrument. Mozart wanted us to be happy and Marnie Laird accomplishes that with all the spirit that went into the writing of the sonata.

[@briancamcginn]

Truly one of my favourite pieces. Such a wonderful interpretation. I absolutely love the clarity you display in your technique. Simply amazing.

[@jmcelse]

Vous avez la virtuosité, le tempo est juste, et c'est tellement musical. C'est tellement beau, si magnifique : enfin une vraie Mozartienne ! Amadeus doit être tellement content de vous entendre jouer sa musique... Vous êtes sa bienfaitrice et il vous guide de là-haut. Vous êtes à la hauteur de son talent !

[@annwalker3854]

I had this piece played at my wedding. I adore it 11 years later!

[@staylorsversion]

:D

[@orangmakan]

Leaving out words does not always mean leaving out information 😁

[@BillyBillion80]

Love Love Love your playing!

[@JohnCurtisPiano]

this is the best sounding piano i have ever heard, no joke

[@hansroemerszoonvanderbrikk7626]

you bet! It's an historic NYC made Steinway

[@jpdj2715]

Let's first acknowledge Ms. Laird's playing and touch. That touch may be more than 50% of what you perceive. To me the piano sounds "Steinway" and for me, as a European, that generally means "Hamburg". So I was kinda surprised to note in one of the videos that it is a NY one, actually - there is so much prejudice. A technical question would be what action it has. Renner or NY Steinway. And what generation action, if US too. I do not generally like American "design" and again, prejudices, have to say, this one works wonderfully well with the legs and stand very nicely made. Maybe we should consider that Floridians might say the US's North-East is not America but Europe - prejudices. Part of the sound working wonderfully well is the smaller size that fits Mozart's use of a limited keyboard on the bass side (the evolution of today's piano was about starting in his time.) A Steinway D would not have this almost fortepiano kind of end result that so befits this Mozart piece really well. Part of the sound is, that the microphones are in the piano. This results in pushing room sound to the background in the dynamic range of the audio recording and extending recorded sound or note duration. The room has some damping panels, but is not too big in this corner. With the window glass on the other side of the lid, the microphones are isolated from that nasty reflection. I think this is the best microphone placement in these circumstances, but gives you, especially with excellent audio playback, the illusion that your head is inside the piano. Which is sort of true. That said, with a couple notes or chords, it sounded to me the piano's sound started to - as I call it - float. I am not a piano tuner, but think this happens when certain individual strings are a bit out of tune and acoustic string resonance gets some slow frequency level reverberation (which I associate, prejudice, with old German, generally cheaper, uprights that have not been tuned for a long time - or are so old they cannot hold tune anymore.)

[@hansroemerszoonvanderbrikk7626]

@@jpdj2715 except the US action is not made by Renner (who makes it?) this doesn't mean it's bad since it's basically the same with imperial lenght forks. Also the NYC made ones features the accelerated keyboard which should be somway more agile. The action also may change the playability but if you voice the hammers correctly you can obtain the same sound. I agree about what you say about recordings, of course you cannot stictly judge the instrument by simply hearing on youtube because every detail of the room and the microphones placements can alter the sound a lot

[@jpdj2715]

@@hansroemerszoonvanderbrikk7626- my study of the piano's development is 40 years ago and memories are a bit foggy. I am aware that the NY ones generally do not have Renner actions but Steinway made ones. However with a historical instrument there is always a chance that somebody restored to different specifications. Not, the action does not necessarily change the sound, but the working on the felt changes - voices - the sound a lot. You can see, on YT, that selection committees compare Steinways and out of, say, 5 instruments, no two sound the same. About the voicing with the hammers' felt a nice anecdote circulates about Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli working with the tuner to prepare for his Carnegie Hall concert. IIRC, in YT channel ThePianoForever, young pianist James shows a lot of different instruments and the, again IIRC, accelerated action is discussed in there somewhere, as not so durable. That does not mean it is bad when it works, though. You see similar things in race engines taken to commercial cars. For races the life time is short and the monitoring and maintenance are fulltime. Naive of me, I always thought that the second evolution of today's piano action enabled faster playing. Until recently, when I saw (YT) a young pianist perform on old pianos in a museum. She went incredibly fast and it sounded good, even. (I prefer the Steinway character, though, if done well. Vice-versa, I do not like Chopin in a large concert hall on a Steinway D where every section's volume indication by Chopin is played two notches louder to facilitate the audience. "Not like" as in "almost hate". Then it dawned on me that the 2nd innovation of the repetition mechanism only impacts the speed of repetition of the same key. Let me now think that composers actually knew all this and avoided an instrument's weaknesses, with pianos the same way as with e.g. the French horn, that needed valves, for Mahler to be able to compose beautiful notes for them.

[@hansroemerszoonvanderbrikk7626]

@@jpdj2715 I live in Italy and there are a lot of annecdotes regarding Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli mad requirements to his most trusted technician which has been one of the best in Italy, it seems Mr.Michelangeli felt a little piece of paper, torn from a ring spacer, remained stuck under a black key after a setup altering the stroking depth almost imperceptible. I strictly believe that Renner reputation has raised when there weren't CNC routers, at the time craftmanship made the difference, after a good wood seasoning an selection. Today a Yamaha self made action is many times better than a Renner, and also there's proof that wood is no longer the best choice to achieve precision. The Kawai Millennium and WNG actions are proven to be more reliable retaining the setup better. In fact you don't necessarily need to repeat one key fast, you better need that all the keys reacts the same with a good setup. There are also slight optimized variants of the standard mechanism like the one made by Ron Overs (check at Overs Piano - Australia). And many things are going on to improve piano technology like i.e. Paulello strings, bridge agraffes and many others.

[@annageber4954]

I absolutely love this piece!

[@chaozhouhoa360]

I just don’t know what it is, but Marnie makes this Sonata sound so fresh and modern and not stuffy. Just gorgeous, fun, and sweet.

[@marysheerin747]

Still listening to you Marnie Laird. Your recording of this Mozart Sonata is one of my favourites and is so often my nocturnal musical interlude before turning in. You play and perform it with such clarity and purity; flowing with perfection. Thank you once more. Mary, Dublin Ireland. xx

[@evarousseva]

Gracious, exquisitely performed! Marnie, you have great sense of Mozart!

[@e.castlerock8454]

Wow, that was awesome. You make those left-hand crossovers look so effortless. I once had a neighbor I could hear playing her piano. It'd be great to live next door to you and hear you playing through our open windows.

[@orangmakan]

It wont, believe me. Its a long way until it sounds that great, and you would not like to hear her training scales or a sequence of just 4 bars for a good 2 hours over and over again.

[@mariajosedeoliveirabenites1611]

Maravilhosa interpretação; Um alento para a alma. 💝

[@karthikn9485]

Brilliant ! The sequence starting at 3:30 is simply amazing skill.

[@sandroantonelli1468]

great author great calls for a great performer as this

[@pepecordas24]

The best music ever made!I love it!

[@stevenretroworkshop2113]

Congratulation! It was very beautiful, sensitive playing. Well done! Mozart Piano Sonata No 11 in A Major, K. 331: I. Andante Grazioso is one of my most favorite music piece from Mozart.

[@HarryPagels]

meiner Meinung stimmt hier alles, Mozarts herrliche Piano Sonate, das Umfeld und eine hübsche Frau, die das Stück wirklich sehr gut vorträgt. Ich sage Danke Harry 83

[@chaozhouhoa360]

Wow....Bravo. Thank you!!! I just want to say that this platform you guys choose is so great to spread the love of music to the next generation. Anyone with an internet connection can really enjoy the beauty of Mozart. I can tell you that there will be a bunch of kids who will say I learned Piano or Cello because of Brooklyn Duo or Brooklyn Classical.

[@jacobdavidch3197]

Best version ever

[@Bella-s9z]

Beautiful! My favorite Mozart piece.

[@MisterLex]

So beautiful and peaceful! I heard the theme in a movie and I'm glad it brought me here!

[@GuilhermeHenriquesCoaching]

Beautiful. Full of softness and precision. I loved it.

[@giovannafernandes3572]

My ears are blessed. So beautiful. Congratulations Marnie 😍

[@vettejakes]

I throughly enjoyed hearing you. Very expressive.

[@marysheerin747]

Perfect; and so uplifting ... still listening to you Marnie. Mozart would be so pleased with your interpretation. Thank you again and again. Mary S, Dublin, Ireland.xx

[@LiseVocalfreedom]

I have never heard of this pianist before but this performance is better than all the others I have heard. Thanks :)

[@oscarbello6758]

That 3rd variation though 😍

[@marysheerin747]

I'm still listening to your Marnie Laird. And still being soothed and elevated with your beautiful performance of Mozart. Thank you once more and I hope finds you and Patrick and Emmie well. All best wishes and love from Mary, Dublin, Ireland.

[@ingnacioianlucca5298]

Very beautiful! Congratulations! My greatest admiración 💖

[@DarrylMellema]

I'm working today with a Brooklyn Duo playlist helping me through the day. While I'm enjoying every bit of it -- this especially made me smile. Thanks for your channel and for sharing all this varied music with the Inter Webs.

[@helenebourgeois7098]

Thank you. This piece brings me peace and joy. I will listen to it often.

[@elgavilanalexespinoza820]

So beautiful to explain in proper words...beautiful ☆☆☆☆☆

[@daolieu4261]

Love it all over again every time

[@carolynwheeler8475]

Absolutely beautifully rendered

[@Khamdani61-wd6jh]

Nice to listen your performance. Thanks.

[@ericmcdonald445]

My living room is filled with the richness of this performance. Thank you.

[@xaverhetzenegger4262]

Eine sehr schöne Interpretation auf einem wunderbaren alten Instrument

[@richdelarby9387]

Beautiful style, beautiful sound, beautiful virtuose .....

[@musictogetherartcraft]

Thank you 💕!!!

[@Vince-wq8xr]

So beautiful. Thank you, thank you so much!

[@無問西東]

Beautiful music🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@MusikGuy]

Simply gorgeous. Thank you for sharing this beautiful and perfect performance of this Mozart sonata.

[@lydiacharlotte7939]

Another stunning performance - absolutely loved listening to this!! This would definitely be a piece I would love to play one day! Thank you for sharing it with us xx

[@BrooklynClassical]

Thank you so much!

[@cuttycolyar7991]

IMPRESSIVE!

[@jamestaylor5215]

I just discovered this channel! Mind blown! Now this is Mozart. Absolutely gorgeous.

[@Augustus_Imperator]

Finally someone who plays both andante and grazioso, it's so hard to find a good rendition of this sonata, usually it's played so heavy it becomes a burden to listen to

[@alcidesmongemartinez2870]

Escucharlos es un deleite para uno

[@steveholcomb1904]

You must find great pleasure from playing music so well !

[@damuses1452]

Marvelous. Thank you so very much for sharing this masterpiece and wonderful Madam Laird's rendition.

[@steveholcomb1904]

Just amazing every time I listen, thanks you for sharing.

[@alanfasbury]

Thank you Marnie ⚘

[@ahmadsmusic-2114]

that was so beautiful playing .. thank you very much

[@carolinecorman1716]

Happy Amadeus to you. Wonderful, Wolfgang would be proud.

[@dvoraklover9679]

Pure talent & poise. Always a rewarding listen Marnie! ❤️👏💐

[@marcelacampino4612]

8 de I e 79 zzsc

[@irenedhakde4692]

That's an excellent graceful, just right tempo, precise interpretation! Lovely ❤

[@sheilykocbayindiran3729]

Absolutely beautiful and brilliant. Thank you.💐💐

[@海辺のたけし]

BRAVO!!!

[@marcus8258]

Very beautiful, sensitive playing. Well done!

[@borjacollellbuqueras7218]

It was amazing

[@duncanmacpherson2013]

First Class performance

[@diplomaticcommunity4738]

Sublime, The piano sounds AMAZING!

[@laisasaid]

Beautiful! I'm studying this piece right now too. Difficult! Nice performance. Congratulations

[@stephanietanx5662]

Hi Marnie, I adore this piece and Alla Turca played by you. They are all so well played, with absolute clarity, control and great interpretation. The notes literally stand out and sound so crystal clear! I think your version of this Sonata is by far the best that I have heard out of so many people. My diploma examination is coming up and this song is one of the pieces I have to play. I want to thank you for playing this so beautifully, it serves as an inspiration for me for my exam. With love from Stephanie, Singapore.

[@Mrlimsuliong]

How's your exam?

[@Amaretto402]

@@Mrlimsuliong she passed...hoping she did🙏

[@bryvnxiii4632]

@@Amaretto402 yeah she passed away 😢

[@petraweise6494]

Der Flügel klingt unglaublich gut. Ich habe mir vor allem gern die Videos gemeinsam mit dem Cello-Mann angeschaut.

[@WhyPhi]

Wow! This was so nice! Thank you!

[@ebigeorge5297]

Wow really love this

[@maumau4033]

Amazing!!

[@peemlol7786]

Great sound and great view outside = Perfect

[@sotokar2147]

Very peaceful❤Thanks Marnie!!!

[@blogleftbanker]

Everything about this video is amazing. Thank you for shedding some light on yet another day of lock-down and spurring me to practice.

[@esenaboxaki]

Wow and bravo 👏👏👏

[@garrylarkin464]

My giddy aunt! This girl is gooooooood!!!!

[@daniellejohnson9568]

Beautiful! 😀 Great job 👍

[@CATONINO]

Sempre meraviglioso 250 anni dopo, lo sarà ancora tra un millennio.....

[@eugenome]

Wow! I first heard this over 20 years ago, but this is the best performance ever. A crystal clear, bright recording too! Thanks for this on New Year's Day 2020!

[@juanxu1047]

Wow! Wait till you here my playing

[@無問西東]

Wait for it.

[@無問西東]

@@juanxu1047Same

[@eugenome]

That piano has a beautiful timbre too.

[@sanchariroy9325]

Wow! You play so swiftly and beautifully!!!!!!!😯😯😯😯

[@alinerodrigues7447]

Fantastic 😍🎹🎶

[@LedZep1989]

Thanks for posting! Sincerely, Brad Cady

[@limagisinha]

Thank you so much, Marnie! I'm very very happy for listening to this song! It's my best birthday's present!