MOZART - Sonata in C minor, K. 457

[@micheldupaul7768]

Very very well played, an impeccable rhythmic regularity imbued with a subtle sensitivity. Mozart should be dazzled by it.

[@TheStevied86]

I've listened to a vast number of pianists play this one, for like over 20 years... My dad always had it playing on the drive to school during the time I was learning to play it (you make it sound so effortless 😂 that song is a diffulicult beast loll) You win my good sir, most enjoyable, glorious version I've heard ever. Love your playing 🎹

[@namegoesfirstthenlastname1785]

Hi, how long did it take you to master this piece?

[@オールマイト-y1f]

@@namegoesfirstthenlastname1785 Considering he calls it a song I'm guessing never.

[@hi-ur4qd]

@@オールマイト-y1fgod, so pretentious. who cares what it's called? it's just great music.

[@da33smith37]

Technique, artistry, and sublime material -- what's left to ask?! Bravo.

[@clydepotter5340]

An oustanding performance in every detail. Sensitivity without excessive affectation allows the music to speak.

[@tomjones2348]

And....it's so difficult to render a piece like this with no affectations. I'm guilty of it.

[@mikekuwabara3975]

Beautiful sounds! I thank player Micah McLaurin and also Mozart for leaving us such a wonderful music piece.

[@anfarahat]

Great sound! Thank you. I would play the second movement a little slower though, and more cantando. I am fascinated by the third movement, Bravo. Thanks again for sharing.

[@tylerdeshoun]

This is amazing!😭 I wish they would play the ads in between acts instead of in the middle of your playing

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[@saleenapiano]

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[@tomjones2348]

Bravo!! I especially liked your phrasing in the second movement. Some people tend to "bang" the third movement...but you didn't do that. Just beautiful, elegant and thoughtful playing all the way through.

[@thatnicekid04]

Amazing colors of sound. I have never heard a more wonderful interpretation of this sonata. Thank you for your thoughtfulness.

[@timothythorne9464]

thatnicekid04 this is Mozart composing in proto-Romantic, Beethovenesque style. But...it's funded with an endless stream of flowing, beautiful melody that only Mozart could bring. Just sublime!

[@caterscarrots3407]

Timothy Thorne Beethovenesque is definitely a term I would use to describe this sonata. It has a lot of resemblances to Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata. Even the rondo movements are similar.

[@DanielFahimi]

@@caterscarrots3407 Can you point out the similarities between this and the rondo?

[@caterscarrots3407]

Daniel Fahimi Sure I can. The repeated chords and upward motion at the beginning of the rondo of the Mozart sonata is similar to what occurs at the end of the main theme of the Beethoven rondo. The diminished sevenths and how they lead back to the main theme is also a similarity. And then there’s the energetic outburst at the end of both sonatas. In the second movement of the Mozart sonata, there is an arpeggiated creschendo that resembles the dominant lock in the middle of the Pathetique Sonata rondo.

[@DanielFahimi]

@@caterscarrots3407 Wait, by rondo, you mean the slow Movement of K. 457?

[@lilyzeng4189]

Ludwig Van Mozart & Wolfgang Amadeus Beethoven

[@Andrewscottmusic]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing your performance.

[@lourak613]

Beautiful, sensitive phrasing - and quite a nice touch too, with beautifully shaded dynamics and tasteful tapering off of phrase endings! All in good taste with hardly an affectation or arbitrary rhythmic gesture. Bravo Curtis - on the excellent guidance you have given the young man!

[@franciscahernandezs.4594]

Bravo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I really loved how did you perform this sonata. When I heard it for the first time, I thought “this is the most Beethovenian of Mozart’s sonatas”, then I read the comments about that Brilliant!! I cant’t stop hearing this performance. I also found similarities between this sonata and the Pathetique (wich I studied 12 years ago) Now I’m gonna start studying this sonata💜🎵

[@caterscarrots3407]

I found similarities too. Let’s see, a lot of the second movement resembles the second movement of the Pathetique Sonata. There’s one passage that resembles the dominant lock of the Pathetique Sonata Rondo in Mozart’s second movement. The ascending chords of the main theme of the Mozart rondo resemble the end of the main theme of Beethoven’s rondo. The ascending octaves in Mozart’s first movement slightly resembles the hand crossing that is the second theme of the first movement of the Pathetique Sonata, though it more closely resembles Piano Sonata no. 1 in F minor. Back in the rondo, there are more resemblances. Mozart uses diminished seventh chords to retransition back to the main theme, so does Beethoven in the Pathetique Sonata Rondo. Both sonatas end in an energetic outburst. There are even some Pathetique Sonata first movement resemblances in Mozart’s rondo.

[@saleenapiano]

I also have always found it to be most Beethoven-ian of all the Mozart piano works; I also feel it somewhat anticipates the Pathetique, only the music is of much higher quality than the Pathetique; it is more subtle and refined. the last movement of this work also anticipates Beethoven quite a bit. The middle movement is however, very typical of Mozart

[@christeneholt]

Lovely! This is my lesson video for learning this sonata. :)

[@aselkularatne3287]

Precise and with intent. Bravo!!!

[@Orientaliszt]

Belle interprétation. Merci pour le partage.

[@kamlapiano]

Fantastic. Something to motivate me. Lovely Mozart touch and clear phrasing - which requires a secure technique. I can only hope for myself with practise in the next 2 years.❤

[@jeffsmith1798]

Beautiful interpretation. Thank you for posting.

[@centralshaft801]

Bravo ! I wish mozart coulda heard it

[@kellyeaton7252]

He have said something to the effect of "you'll learn more from listening to me than playing it a hundred times" 🤣😂

[@wallacechoi7610]

Great........

[@mediacenterman8583]

So beautiful 10:40 Like a twinkle until the curtain falls.

[@mistressmozart]

beautifully and sensitively played! the 2nd movement was just a liiiiiiittle bit too fast for my taste, but still lovely.

[@matthieucailliau]

très beau travail, que je réécoute avec plaisir. J'espère travailler prochainement cette sonate

[@ootamanabu]

oh... NY Steinway sound glass bass sounds~!! cool perform sir !

[@deadiseasy7891]

4:30 11:20

[@擂响战鼓]

technic+spirit=McLaurin

[@escaper_piano]

Nice job...I wanted to play this for a long time it's difficult to get right

[@조미자-x5i]

He was so great!!

[@thelvadam7450]

Absolutely sublime...a very underrated piece

[@user-gl7qx1ww6r]

7:12 eyo beethoven?

[@charleskim290]

Nice listening

[@Raherin]

I'm very familiar with Beethoven's Pathetique, and I just started working on this Mozart piece the other week and I can see many similarities and ideas in common where I have to just assume Beethoven's Pathetique was influenced by this Sonata.

[@caterscarrots3407]

Derek Bunyak I do too. I think of this Mozart Sonata as the "Pathetique Precursor" because there are similarities to every movement of the Pathetique, especially in the second and third movements.

[@user-gl7qx1ww6r]

@@caterscarrots3407 ME TOO!! I thought the ostinato bass at the beginning of the first movement was similar enough, and then the second and third movements came omg

[@girldairy]

That's perfect and inspiring.

[@donald-ericblanchette6603]

Super interpretation

[@JacquelineFung-t1l]

Amazing❤

[@rainerharald6872]

Durch das zu schnelle Tempo im 1.Satz gibt es zu viel klangliche Brüche, die Pianopassagen verlieren oft an Intensität und die Verzierungen im 2.Satz sind nicht in die Melodie eingebunden.

[@ШолпанКалжан]

Bravo, thank you!

[@pianowil]

Musically sensitive in all the movements with tastefully employed pedal. Personally I agree with mistressmozart, the Adagio could be slightly slower to my taste could further enhance the poise of the movement though it could become more difficult to think in longer lines. Very expressive and enjoyable performance overall!

[@ManneVonM.]

Future Beethoven hears this....

[@kelvin4622]

Good performance

[@Robert...Schrey]

I can‘t understand that neither Brendel nor Gulda observe the crossing of the hands on the last page.

[@李霈芸]

good job.

[@romahoffman4195]

Thank you, great work!

[@devangkankaria1386]

Sputnik Sweetheart brought me here!

[@jatinnegi1877]

🌼

[@WRETCHEDAVION]

'Not'-BARD ... Up-There With ESCHENBACH ... 'Praise'-INDEED!! >(*U^)

[@maniscalcane]

§ perfection § based and redpilled

[@ingaliu8903]

Bridgerton brought me here. Anyone else? 🙋🏻‍♀️

[@lisavanderveen]

It certainly helps to learn to appreciate classical music. association with the era, the romanticism, the courtesy that people had at the time, has everything to do with it for me.

[@Vanessa-dx7dy]

Which episode? I want to check it out

[@caterscarrots3407]

Beethoven brought me here.

[@HelenA-ow3pw]

Yep!

[@fabiangolea9930]

It's mozart​@@caterscarrots3407

[@jonathanhos6031]

Available Romantic !

[@yopiano1071]

Why this is so easy, but this is a LRSM piece

[@robertbeveridge8371]

I don't think this is easy - or not the way Micah McLaurin plays it. I am sure if you could play it like this for an LRSM exam you would get full marks! And rightly so.

[@yopiano1071]

@@robertbeveridge8371thanks for the advice, sir ❤

[@НинаМальцева-е7ы]

класс!

[@fawziqaisi728]

almost 100k views good job

[@asloii_1749]

He is cute.

[@kawaiianthony8090]

👏👏👏👏

[@hayun6875]

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[@franciscahernandezs.4594]

Bravo👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I really loved how did you perform this sonata. When I heard it for the first time, I thought “this is the most Beethovenian of Mozart’s sonatas”, then I read the comments about that Brilliant!! I cant’t stop hearing this performance. I also found similarities between this sonata and the Pathetique (wich I studied 12 years ago) Now I’m gonna start studying this sonata💜🎵