As someone studying this piece right now, it's funny because all of the parts that sound difficult and showy actually fit in the hand quite nice whereas many of the lyrical and melodic parts that sound easier are far harder in my experience. Incredible work, regardless.

Like a breath of fresh air, melodic patterns built in 4ths has such a 21st century sound.

16:35 haha, idk why but when this moment hit and that chord in the bass clef played it sounded exactly like the windows XP error sound. i think it's the same notes

Wow, what an amazing piece. I discovered it by accident when KZfaq put it down the right-hand side when I was listening to the first movement of Tippett's 4th piano sonata.

I discovered this music--this exact recording, in fact--on or shortly after a trip to Australia in 1992. It has been in heavy rotation in my CD player ever since. 14 years of enjoyment and still going strong. I have since seen it performed live, though not by Michael Kieran Harvey. Over the years, it seems this sonata has slowly gained a following and more and more people are playing it. There is something haunting and beautiful about it. Thanks for posting.

I heard this in my car during a vancliburn.Ive never forgotten it over 30 years ago.I pulled over into publix parking lot transfixed .

This sonata holds something mesmerizing within itself...

A masterpiece of the contemporary era

I love that you included the score, because seeing this piece always makes it even more amazing. My favourite modern piano work, no question.

Oh God it's so nice to hear a 20th century piece that isn't a incoherent chromatic mess, stuck in the 19th century, or a neo-whatever work. I love this so much.

Thank God for olla-vogala and Carl Vine. This has to be one of the greatest works for the piano ever written.

On first hearing, this already strikes me like a great piano sonata! Bravo for composer and performer.

2:40-2:47 is cool as hell yo, dis my jam

Immensely effective and impressive piano writing. Waves of sound indeed ! And never sounding merely loud of noisy. Yes this must be one of the great piano sonatas of the 20th century (but there are a lot). The start of the second movement strongly reminds me of the second mvt of Ginastera's first sonata.

This is a beautiful discovery!

This is beyond brilliant! I must perform this before I retire

Wow. Three minutes in and I'm hooked! Who said that "modern music" can't still have a distinctive voice, accessibility and entertain too? I'm so happy that there are composers who are able to break free, of academic composition, and speak in their own unique, refreshing voice; one doesn't have to sound like warmed-over Hindemith to sound modern.

FABULOUS. I can't believe it's not no. 1 on KZfaq.

6:20 beautifully groovy

I checked all 342 comments and everyone, including me, really likes this piece.

4:53-5:26 sounds like nothing ive ever heard before, and that is a good thing.

this sonata is chill as hell

The texture at 12:58 reminds me of Kapustin, and the section starting at 14:33 reminds me of Rautavaara...

Superb music and deliciously presented..!!! Thanks for sharing!

Amazing! What a composer! How is it possible to reach him personally with a great tribute, a genuine honor? His music is beyond this planet, I'm in a state of shock

I owe you my infinite gratitude for posting sheet music videos of pieces and composers that I never would have heard of otherwise!

A truly oustanding piece from a totally and fully developed great composer, I was stunned by the conjuction of resources and styles from different times into one single and original approach, this is as hard jaw dropping as the first time I´ve listened to Godowsky´s Passacaglia

Thanks to the random dude blasting this in the bobst library, I have discovered yet another piece that I’m going to play on repeat for a while.

Normally can't follow or even claim to understand a lot of new music, but as mentioned in the explanation, this is immediately approachable and a breath of fresh air. Thanks for posting this.

I'm probably insane for hearing this, but... Pomp and Circumstance: 15:52

Truly an incredible sonata

10:35 to 11 is just amazingly genius

I was not expecting much when I saw it was composed in 1990 but I was in for a surprise. I am not a fan of most "modern music" however this sonata was a lot more coherent (and sounded much better) than I expected. I'll have to keep this in mind, as I doubt this is the only exception.

Love it....so many brilliant pieces to discover here !

This is definitely going to my favorites

Really good piece. Tonal, interesting, unique.

Un mio amico vuole a tutti i costi imparare questo pezzo... ascoltandolo capisco il perchè.. grazie per la pubblicazione

8:23 doesn't it resembles Gamecube intro??

A very powerful, interesting Piano Sonata. Thanks!

As a Hungarian, it is always nice to hear some Bartók references. :)

back years later and it’s still a banger 🔥🔥🔥

Wow. Awesome piece. I'm not familiar with this guy at all, so this is a welcome discovery for me. Really loving some of those chords at the beginning and many of the rhythms are sublime. Sort of a missing link between the Impressionist composers and some of the more "out there", more atonal composers.

One of the top 10 best piano songs ever written.

WOOHOO Carl Vine!!

Awesome! Certainly one of my favourites from recent times... Would love to see more people compose like this in the future... This what I call Great innovation, in my opinion modern composers try very hard to go behind the boundaries and to experiment with sound and innovate, but in my opinion innovation's path is towards a more coherent structure with modern sounds, possibly what I think is the best path is implementing microtonal intervals and harmonies into something that doesn't have too much unjustified dissonance (tension that just sits there from the beggining to the end, for me clusters and heavy dissonance can be implemented very well into music, but it doesn't work very well if that's the music itself) or extended techniques... Would love to make music in that line of thought in the future!

facinating work

Amazing pianist and very interesting piano work! Congrats to performer and composer!

6:22 makes me "cry" everytime damn :') so incredibly beautiful, even more in the context of other crazy passages in the song

14:32 I'd be honest, this does sound like boss music ;D

beautiful, intersting work. Quite attractive for pianists.

Definitely using some those chord voicings from 10:50 or so.

Great! Especially second movement))

Hell of a performance!

First time to listen, and just... wow

Dat Left hand Forearm cluster at 4:21 :O ninja technique

challenging yet very compelling

Such a masterpiece....

Le deuxième mouvement est épatant, passionnant.

truly an epic banger

One of my favourite piano sonatas! One of my friends recently played this actually. I love this piece, and Vine's other piano music is excellent too. Do you have any scores of the symphonies by any chance? Especially nos. 1 and 4.2?

Excellent. Magnifique @01:10

Thanks SO much. This is piece is extraordinary!

Not normally into modern harmonies aligned with this style .. but I love the first movement. I find the rhythmic tweaking gives it a Steve reich phase feeling yet no alterations in accents are explicitly defined.

The "meno mosso" section that starts at bar 173 is unbelievably good maaan

I played this piece for my exam.. it's the most difficult modern piece I've ever played

I'm able to follow the score just by the rhythm but it is a great piece! Thanks olla-vogala!

I listened to this sonata in the nineties (radio transmission). Harvey played it in Poland Part 8:25 was very exciting for me. My classical hit until today. Thanks God for You Tube.

First time here! Great! Difficult piece! Amazing!

fricking awesome

It's a wonderful work (i rarely like XXI music)! thanks for posting. p.s. who made the wikipedia article about you?

Great, really loved it. Thanks alot .

AWESOME! Thanks for posting this!

What an incredible piece! A masterpiece for piano! Yuja Wang is always up for a challenge; I wonder how she would react this tour de force?

This has, unironically, a very pop sound on occasion.

177 - modal passage very interesting. Like the early toccatas of Frescobaldi etc

Nice piece! the second movement wants to remind me of Ginastera before it asserts is own identity.

If Scriabin lived to be 75

A true modern work. Not some messy 12-tone whatever, nor some watery post-romantic musical doodle.

Wonderful!!

4:53

Epic!

I loved every note on this album. I think I bought it in the same year it came out. Then after 2-3 years I - stupidly - lent it to another music teacher. That was the end. I never saw the album again. (And, for those thinking that I should have given my copy of the album- it wasn't possible in those days for the average person. CD burners were not yet on the public market.)

Wow ! Excellent.

I like this better than Ravel’s Miroirs, very colorful piece.

IMPRESIONANTE OBRA

I find the first two pages the hardest so far in learning this piece because of the polyrhythms.

Amazing work....

This is really good!

Michael Harvey must be an outstanding pianist to tackle this piece. I like it, but I don't think Carl Vine will ever have the pleasure that Mozart did when he heard folk whistling his music in the street!

please upload the second Vine sonata. I have the score (got it from scorser).

9:08 Carter Sonata

Incredible

Sehr interessante!!! Respekt!!!!!

Just a genuine question since I'm learning the 1st mvt. currently... Bar 31 second beat in the right hand. Should the middle note be D or D flat? Wouldn't make sense to have what's written there. Let me know, thanks.

The second reminds me Ligeti's 13-th étude

I'm enjoying this, which is rare for newer works. This came after a piece by Leo Ornstein on my playlist-and I can hear some influence. Check out Ornstein if you aren't familiar.

so awesome

it has a beautiful oriental touch ...

bravo

Four minutes in, Konami must have hit me b/c it definitely sounded like a Konami-type Gradius boss like theme out of nowhere. Then at five and a half minutes, everything goes back to reality. This is the power of contemporary music.