Czerny or Scarlatti?

[keyb0ardfweak]

My teacher states that Scarlatti gives you more technique rather than playing Czerny's books of excersises.

Personally, I think you can play a Czerny excersise giving it another "colour" to be able to sound musical.

About Scarlatti, I am now playing some sonatas from the 500 he he has.. 

[thalbergmad]

Instead of playing Cxerny exercises, why not play some of the delightful variations and fantasias.

Thal

[birba]

The Scarlatti sonatas are superlative.  Also, like the previous post suggested, there's so much captivating music by czerny that I've never really understood this thing with his excercises and studies.  Op. 14 is a brilliant summing up of his art.

[keyb0ardfweak]

any reccomended sonata??

Not K.141.. 

Argerich is the best performing that one

[birba]

Are you talking about L.141 or K.141.  the latter is a Koschel catalogue for Mozart.  L is for Longo, the Scarlatti catalogue.  Argerich is the one who plays the h... out of the repeated note one.  But that's not L.141.  Any of the Scarlatti are great - they address every aspect of piano technique.  Except maybe octaves.  He wrote more than 500 of them!

[steviesteps]

The Scarlatti sonatas are refered to in terms of both the Longo and Kirkpatrick catalogues.  The K. 141 is a sonata martha plays and the Mozart Ks are a different thing.  Each 'K' number has its equivelant 'L' number

[birba]

Woops, I'm sooo embarassed.  Of course I know that.  Kirkpatrick.
Sorry.    I've always used the longo.  But you're right, the kirkpatrick number is probably more used these days.  

[pianoplayjl]

Probably do a bit of both to have a wider perspective.