Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Fantasia in C minor K.475 for Piano [complete] Fortepiano

A series of Mozart performances from a live recital given by Nathaniel Mander at the Holburne Museum in Bath in August 2022.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Fantasia in C minor K.475
This fortepiano was made by Johann Schantz in 1795 in Vienna and is exactly the style of instrument that Mozart and Haydn would have known well. This piano is celebrated for its clarity and beauty of tone and brings out the mercurial and quicksilver quality of Mozart's remarkable writing for the piano. In this fantasia in particular, the sudden changes of mood and colour are so well expressed on this responsive instrument.
Nathaniel Mander - Fortepiano
Tom Mungall - Sound and Video
Cesar Hernandez - Tuning and Temperament

[@millennial8441]

Artistry, refinement, and skillful. Such a superb rendition. And I simply love these "fluffy" leaves of you shirt.

[@pascalolivier7280]

WONDERFULLY PLAYED by a highly skillful Musician, with the elegance and probably the style proper to MOZART himself.

[@NathanielMander]

Oh I am so glad to hear of your appreciation for this divine music!

[@magarac99]

An actual fortepiano!!!😊

[@sandroantonelli1468]

I really like the spirited touch of the fortepiano, great piece, original performance

[@vintagevantics]

Absolutely beautiful!

[@NichtWunderkind]

You really know how to play the Fortepiano
Wonderful performance and interpretation

[@NathanielMander]

I really appreciate this - So glad you've enjoyed all the subtleties of this lovely instrument

[@corner559]

I love this on the fortepiano.

[@ghlargentg]

Glorious! Thank you.

[@NathanielMander]

A pleasure!

[@kennethbowry1521]

Great work, looking good and sounding good.

[@makytondr8607]

Beautifully played, you really understand the nuances of the fortepiano. Wonderful choice of tempo, tasteful phrasing and dynamics, crystal clear ornaments, great change of tone and character between different sections. Well done!
I don’t usually enjoy Mozart, but this is a recording I will surely come back to!

[@NathanielMander]

This is such lovely feedback - Thank you!

[@johnwight6041]

Wow wonderful performance! I really enjoyed it!

[@CrandMackerel]

It's hard to get past the unequal temperament listening with modern ears.
It certainly does, though, transport you back in time to an unfamiliar world.

[@symfoniatragic]

That's right, and I wonder how Mozart himself would listen to his works on a modern Steinway & Sons if he was alive!

[@ichibanmanekineko]

As a harpsichord player I absolutely love it. It makes his music so much less clinical and much more humerous and human.

[@danielestebanvillada9272]

Un genio nathaniel sige asi saludos from argentina 😘

[@alanhearty]

💥

[@BaroqueBach.]

Whqt temperament was used in the performance? Also, great performance worthy of much more commemoration.

[@baroquewinds]

It sounds like 1/6 comma meantone to my ear but it could be some other kind of meantone based temperament

[@NathanielMander]

Yes I think it was roughly that - the tuner used his own devised temperament on the day. Experimental!

[@classicgameplay10]

Is this intermediate piece ?

[@pjbpiano]

Not at all.

[@NathanielMander]

One of the hardest! But do try - it's so satisfying.

[@classicgameplay10]

@@NathanielMander i will

[@Fumozart]

Ok the temperament really made me confused between major and minor chords....

[@wolfgangamadeusmozart9523]

this or ronda alla turca?

[@classictastic]

This 100%

[@musikguru1]

The best part is the rose flower on the jacket 😂 really looks great.

[@NathanielMander]

I love roses too!