Interpreting Mozart: Sonata in C, K.330, Ist mov. (tutorial)

Clive Swansbourne makes suggestions about how to bring out Mozart's style in this subtle gem.

[cdvorpiano]

Excellent tutorial, Clive! I worked on this piece about 50 years ago! It's such a joy to revisit it now and you're suggestions and examples for absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much!

[Hkluck]

Such an insightful and hearty teaching. Fully enjoy it. I wish you were my teacher 30+ year back 😂.Thanks for your kindness ❤

[clarayue]

Thank you for spending so much time preparing for this very helpful video. This is very helpful to any piano student learning this seemingly easy and actually quite difficult piece of music.

[falstaff]

Excellent analysis!! Thank you so much!!

[bestmusic]

Amazing play such with soul and heart, bravoo maestroo👏🏻👏🏻❤️

[elliotwong]

Great video! Thanks for the advice, very helpful! You bring so many details to our attention.

[Chimpy_Mc_Gibbon]

i love these videos, excellent insights. Also the first few seconds of every video where you wait to make certain you are being recorded are comedy gold lol

[marcus]

What a great tutorial. This has helped me a lot:-)

[per]

Great info! Working on this myself now, and very much agree on the trills outline you suggest. Paying attention to slurs and staccatos, like you say the markings are quite detailed here! Thank you so much!
Question: When will you do one on the lovely second movement, or have you already done that?

[FlyingDominion]

2:25 I couldn't tell the difference between the two the first time. I had to play it again and only noticed the difference because of how you held your hand.

[danielbischof]

I liked this Tutorial, very fine and helpful

[guacamole]

Why are Mozart's piano works performed so devoid of drama? I understandtand he wasn't Beethoven and the classic period was more restraned but every performance I've heard sounds prettified, boardering on insipid. I don't hear that so much in his other works such as his operas and symphonies. Curious what others think?

[massipicun]

Grande video didattico.
2 e 3 movimento please !?

[kliu]

Haha 7:43 made me think of Lang Lang 😆

[jimtownsend]

I think half of the problems raised by previous comments come from your piano/mic setup. There is a clicky sound? Is that the cardboard?

[jimtownsend]

What in the lords name are you doing with cardboard over the dampers? Lovely video though. Very helpful

[FrederickViner]

Thank you! Just started this sonata and found this really insightful. What do you think of Horowitz's famous interpretation?

[scole]

I don't know about all this dynamic notation and bother about how to play something. Why don't you just listen to the melody, feel it and then play it. From that feel. Don't play without feel, it will sound empty. You can't feel when your head is stuck to the paper. So, listen to something, a part of a piece, and play it by ear whatever comes up as something you feel to play. You cannot be too much in the details, like quieter note after a slur. It's an overall feeling and from that you play the phrase. Melody is feeling, it has emotioal content, meaning. And you can play it like You feel too at any given time (feel).

[GSHAPIROY]

I agree with most of the content here, except for the fact that, without explanation, you prolong notes followed by rests to their full length or longer (e. g. the g in m. 2), whereas the style dictates that notes followed by rests are to be shortened.

8:23 The more simple reason not to add a nachschlag is because it already exists in the form of the two notes d-e. If Mozart had wanted the regular nachschlag to be played with this trill, he would not have written the two notes d-e following it.
11:42 I never noticed that; nice observation!
14:01 Agreed; we are sometimes unfortunate enough to hear similar grace notes played accented and on the beat, and destroying the melody (e. g. openings of mvts. II and III of the Piano Trio K. 502, or the first movement of the Concerto K. 466, m. 126, or the first solo in the first movement of K. 491).
17:42 Trill on the beat, yes, but certainly without nachschlag (here the 32nd note f-sharp immediately following the trilled note acts as a substitution for the nachschlag)! The trill should only consist of three notes.

[sanchopansa]

all fine and dandy. but we would like to be able to read the keys as we follow you.