| 单词 | sonata |
| 例句 | Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Whether a piece of music is a march, a sonata, or a theme and variations, the composer is always free to experiment with the overall architecture of the piece. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And hybrid forms, like the sonata rondo, can become popular with some composers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I concentrate on the notes, imagining myself playing, feeling grateful for this chance to practice, happy to be in a warm car with my sonata and my family. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ainsley plays a Bach sonata, which, it turns out, is a hauntingly beautiful cello piece. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z By the time he was thirteen, he had already composed lots of sonatas and symphonies. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “Hence also,” said my mother, “the ‘Devil’s Trill’ sonata.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I inquired what he wished me to play, indicating that I knew by heart sonatas by Corelli, Tartini, Locatelli, and such other venerable Italian masters as were most highly esteemed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Each sonata portrays an aspect of the Virgin Mary’s or Christ’s life - the Annunciation, the Nativity, the Crucifixion, and so on - and it ends with a piece for solo violin, called simply ‘The Guardian Angel’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I learned to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, between a sonata and a concerto. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z If they have heard many symphonies, they also would not be at all surprised if the first movement is in sonata form and the third movement is based on a dance. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Waking from the dream, Tartini attempted to recollect the fugitive motives of this diabolic sonata, but could not — and wrote instead, from those fragments, his sonata, infamous for its difficulty, called “The Devil’s Trill.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Composed in 1782, the sonata evokes the moon over calm, peaceful waters after the passing of a storm. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Seven years after composing his Pathetique sonata, Beethoven stopped sounding like Mozart or Dussek or Haydn and started creating music beyond what they had imagined. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Through loudspeakers surrounding the pool, a Schubert sonata plays, violins and cellos. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He switches to an Alexander Scriabin sonata, winking over at Alex at the composer’s first name. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I shall write sonatas en trio; and Slant perhaps shall be proprietor of his own plantation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Some symphonies don't have silence between movements, and some don't use the sonata form in any of their movements. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Plenty of marches have been written that don't have a trio section, and the development section of a sonata movement can take unexpected turns. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Beethoven’s eighth piano sonata, known as the Pathetique, was written when he was twenty-eight and making a name for himself in Vienna. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She and Dad listened downstairs while I was up in my room practicing a Vivaldi sonata. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She showed him the opening bars of the Mozart sonata, and the ivory keys felt satisfying and smooth as he tried it himself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z My especial favorites were those autumnal sonatas of Signor Corelli, which had made such a stir in the century previous. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And he would start to conduct his frantic silent sonatas. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed the sound to the back parlour, where his mother, lit by candlelight, was playing the Mozart piano sonata. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Prokofiev's sonata, a Soviet response to World War II, had, in Levit's playing, profound sonic depth and profound violence. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He would play a Scarlatti sonata and, with hardly a pause, swirl around and begin one by Cage. At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z We can play solo sonatas and cantatas for reduced scoring. Unconventional chamber group I-90 Collective performs at Seattle's Trinity Parish 2010-08-26T20:10:00Z This version of the sonata, which the pianist Zoltan Kocsis performed at a private concert at the National Szechenyi Library last Friday evening, differs from the standard edition in several details. A Mozart Mystery: Sonata Manuscript Surfaces in Budapest 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z “Mutual understanding and empathy,” she added, are essential when performing these sonatas. Music Review: H J Lim Performs Piano Sonatas at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z This sonata is full of articulated runs in first and last movements which seem impossibly speedy, particularly in the last movement, except that Lill played them with apparent relaxed ease. John Lill draws out all the moods, power of the piano 2014-05-01T17:50:27Z She ended the program with a melting rendition of a wistful Scarlatti sonata, which conveyed the place of satisfaction and peace at which she has arrived. Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Still, even Mozart’s sonatas and symphonies are full of operatic touches. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z Ives quoted from eclectic sources in his sonatas, including Beethoven and American hymns. Music Review: Jeremy Denk?s Recital at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2011-12-06T23:30:10Z When I opened the door to his home outside Tallinn, Pärt was at the piano, playing this sonata with a tenderness, rubato, and sheer joy that radiates, I hope, even from this spontaneous recording. Listen to Arvo P?rt's new piece written in honour of the pope 2011-07-07T14:11:00Z Mr. Magloire also presents a new work he created to a Ravel sonata, joined by works set to Debussy and Schoenberg. Dance Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z He wrote at least 10 concertos and more than 40 sonatas for the instrument. Music Review: The New York Philharmonic With Riccardo Muti and Carter Brey 2010-04-15T22:16:00Z Unlike the later, mystical Scriabin sonatas, this is a rhapsodic work with Chopinesque beauties. Music Review: A Pianist?s Pensive and Fanciful Sides 2011-07-29T21:08:11Z At Carnegie on Friday, in her recital of Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas, Uchida did behave like a different artist from the one who recorded these works nearly two decades ago. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z "A lot of people are looking for something in music that is not harmonic or sonata form," said Kuusisto. Classical trio hopes to induce sleep 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z His exciting and probing interpretations of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Variations and sonatas representing three compositional periods — Opus 10, No. 3; “Les Adieux”; and Opus 79 — can be enjoyed on this historical recording. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Beethoven, Mahler, Aaron Copland and More 2014-04-16T17:12:19Z Debussy wrote his short cello sonata in 1915, the first of a planned series of six works for diverse instrumental combinations; he finished only three. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z For Program II, Jörg Widmann has written “Summer Sonata” in response to Beethoven’s “Spring” Sonata, which this duo will play along with two other Beethoven violin sonatas. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z The two were equal partners in the first half of the program, where both Beethoven and Franck in their respective sonatas gave as great a role to the piano as to the violin. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z Mr. Hamelin’s imaginative and soulful recording of the Liszt sonata is one of his latest releases on Hyperion. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z Two programs were devoted mostly to the sonata as it began to separate from the dance suite in the 17th and early-18th centuries. Review: A Sublime Survey of Baroque Music 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Their experience together showed in a lithe, muscular account of Bartok’s sonata, a work commissioned by the I.S.C.M. for a 1938 concert. Music Review | League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music: Fearless Players, Navigating a Sea of Instruments 2010-03-24T21:01:00Z But then, in Lewis's music room, underneath precious facsimile opies of autograph manuscripts of Schubert sonatas and Beethoven concertos, I spy a Lewis original, one of his own handwritten pieces. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z Kobrin approached the sonata with a clinical objectivity that effectively robbed the piece of its characteristic passion, wit and charm. Washington International Piano Festival opens 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z It is a rare program of Beethoven violin sonatas that avoids the ones made famous by their nicknames, but Ms. Faust and Mr. Melnikov chose a swath between the “Spring” and the “Kreutzer”: Nos. Music Review: David Fray and Lionel Bringuier at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-08T22:08:00Z The sonata is “a call for peace,” said Mr. Tao, who, even if he didn’t manage to scale the work’s emotional summits, certainly played with fiery panache. Music Review: Conrad Tao at Weill Recital Hall 2012-02-29T23:01:35Z It is a simple sonata, the one every pianist learns first. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z This program concludes his series of three, presented by Carnegie Hall, devoted to a complete survey of the nine Prokofiev piano sonatas. Classical Music Listings for June 17-23 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z I hope someday to hear him play that Schumann sonata with this original finale. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The danger of playing the Beethoven sonatas on modern instruments is the tendency of the more powerful piano to overwhelm the violin. Review | Piano-violin duo brings mature eloquence to Phillips Collection 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Since then, he’s been a champion of the German composer, recording the complete cycle of concertos and sonatas, and even the bagatelles along the way. Irish pianist John O’Conor continues to show he’s a master of Beethoven 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z He begins with Bach’s French Suite No. 6, detours to Schubert’s second set of Impromptus, returns to a Mozart rondo and finishes with Beethoven’s last sonata. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Schiff also played a recital of the last piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in Santa Barbara recently and last Sunday at Walt Disney Concert Hall. A busy Andras Schiff says Haydn's 'Mass in Time of War' has relevance in today's world 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z He cracks his knuckles, takes on airs and tickles her mercilessly to the tune of the Mozart sonata. A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The sonata repertoire is often difficult enough on the piano that the accompanist label seems inadequate. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z He knows the difference between deep emotion and playfulness, and the last movements of Haydn's, Mozart's and Schubert's sonatas were joyous. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Just listen to “The Temple,” its feverish 7/4 time signature is a nod to Prokofiev’s equally tumultuous seventh piano sonata, with nary a beat to take a breath. Why ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ the Album Has Always Rocked 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The sonata set, in particular, is an outstanding achievement. Extraordinary Beethoven, and an Adventurous Streak 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Many performances of this sonata prove memorable for the beauty of individual moments. Review: Imogen Cooper, Grappling With Schumann’s Ghosts 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z He was less good, the thinking goes, at channeling his voice into symphonies, sonatas and chamber music forms. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z Composed as respite from the Ninth Symphony, these little works juxtapose the luminous textures of the last sonatas with the back-slapping humour of his early work. Thomas Ad?s 2010-04-29T20:45:00Z The biggest combatants were practitioners of complex, cutting-edge 12-tone composition who claimed the intellectual high ground and those who still wrote sonatas, symphonies and such, in essentially major and minor keys. 2010-02-12T17:26:00Z But the same officials who had implored Heifetz to nix the Strauss sonata now urged him to carry on. Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The exception was the trio sonata, for which Bach stipulated flute, violin and continuo, the first instrument a homage to Frederick, a flautist. Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Koopman 2010-04-26T22:00:00Z A pleasant but cautiously played first half paired two sonatas — Debussy’s only one for violin, and Mendelssohn’s in F — that struggled to make an impact in the cavernous Fisher Hall. Music Review: In a Finale, Comfort Trumps Provocation 2011-06-06T22:06:28Z Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, longtime colleagues and friends, have played Beethoven’s five sonatas for cello and piano for some four decades, and won Grammy Awards for recordings of them in the 1980s. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z The Schubert sonata seems an endless succession of lovely, tuneful episodes overflowing with notes that appear to go nowhere. John O’Conor performs at Catholic University for International Piano Festival In Beethoven’s “Spring” sonata, there was a wonderful, growling collision of motifs in the first movement, the two artists jostling for attention. Kavakos and Eschenbach combine to put on an inspired recital 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z Thursday’s program delves into the turbulence of the English Civil War with 17th-century galliards, laments and sonatas by Dowland, Purcell and others. Opera & Classical Music Listings for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z It’s wholly Haydn, featuring three of the piano sonatas. 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The four sonatas were delightful, particularly the rapid-fire Allegretto of the Sonata in G Minor. In Pedja Muzijevic’s recital, talk gets in the way of ‘Haydn Dialogues’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z Lenin has no use for art, though his wife describes him as being unnervingly moved by a Beethoven sonata. Review: Screwball Eggheads Tear Up the Library in ‘Travesties’ 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The logical conclusion to this bridge to Beethoven would be to play all three sonatas together nonstop for 80 minutes. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z That was performed privately, but Brahms then turned it into a sonata for two pianos and then, on Clara Schumann's advice, into a piano quintet, at which point he destroyed the strings-only version. Brahms: String Quintets in F minor and B minor – review 2012-07-05T21:04:01Z Liszt’s moody and exhilarating sonata benefited most from the pianist’s dramatic flair, even if the club’s overuse of amplification occasionally muddied her passagework. Music Review: Back at the Keyboard After a Difficult Interlude 2011-02-01T21:43:30Z But they are Beethoven’s last word in the solo sonata, a genre he inherited from Mozart and Haydn and that he radically transformed to suit his own expressive aims. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Richter had 19 of the sonatas in his repertoire, and counted the composer among his favorites. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Better still might be to really begin in medias res, say, in a middle movement of a sonata. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z “The pieces in the program are not typical sonata formats,” Hahn says. Violinist Hilary Hahn to appear at Seattle’s Meany Hall 2014-04-25T23:43:15Z Biber composed a large catalog of instrumental and vocal music, but is largely remembered for his violin sonatas. Music Review: Daniel S. Lee Plays ‘The Crucifixion’ for Tenet’s TENEbrae 2014-03-24T22:40:14Z Share’s notes, on the other hand, run to thirty-nine pages, and illuminate the poem’s embroidery of references—to sonata structure, Welsh prosody, Northumbrian history, sailing terms. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Scores may be used only in chamber music, sonatas with accompaniment and contemporary works.” Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z Before the Schubert, Vogt and the Tetzlaffs had essayed the three Brahms trios, as well as two by Dvorak; with Christian alone, there were accounts of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann and Brahms. Facing Death, a Pianist Recorded Music of Unspeakable Emotions 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z In the B flat sonata D960, the hushed, unfolding theme of the first movement was slightly held back in an uncharacteristically mannered way, but with Lewis's playing exquisitely weighted and judged throughout. Paul Lewis – review 2012-11-14T16:17:45Z Yes, the early works, steeped in 12-tone technique, are steely and radical, like the first two piano sonatas. Recalling Pierre Boulez, a Conductor-Composer With an Ear to the Alternative 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z A single Beethoven sonata, the E flat Op 27 no 1, preceded the Ives, all its transitions perfectly judged by Williams, and linked neatly with the Concord Sonata, with its references to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Ll?r Williams 2010-08-30T15:38:00Z Three readers, agreeing with my choice of the Schubert piano sonata, pointed to a moment in the second movement of the same piece, a “surprising, breathtaking key modulation,” as Mark, from Brooklyn, put it. Readers Name Some Favorite Musical Surprises of Their Own 2014-04-25T14:00:02Z Beethoven’s piano sonatas, like his string quartets, were personal statements that grew ever more inward. Review: Paul Lewis Powers Through a Beethoven Trilogy at White Light Festival 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z In any event, there is nothing somnambulant about his vivid playing of 18 Scarlatti sonatas, with idiosyncratic, soulful and colorful interpretations rendered with a full-blooded touch and liberal rubato. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Igor Kamenz and More 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Only a young artist with supreme self-confidence would introduce herself to the wider public with a recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z Wigmore Hall Live Schumann wrote these three sonatas, each impassioned and bursting with difficult, angst-driven energy, near the end of his life. Schumann: Violin Sonatas – review 2013-05-25T23:05:19Z This was a competent but not entirely persuasive interpretation of the sonata, whose balance of melody and accompaniment represented a new development in Beethoven’s musical language. Music Review: Chamber Music Society Completes a Beethoven Project 2010-05-16T21:44:00Z As performed by Ms. Scott and Mr. Beer, the sonata of the play’s title speaks most eloquently for both itself and for the feverish nightmares it inspires in our narrator. Theater Review: ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? Based on Tolstoy, at La MaMa 2012-03-12T02:00:00Z But I’m very happy to play now the late Brahms, and the last three sonatas of Beethoven. A Pianist Comes Around on Period Instruments 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Among French composers Saint-Saëns was a decisive force in a purposeful shift from opera and other dramatic entertainments toward ostensibly more exalted absolute forms like the symphony and the sonata. Critic’s Notebook: A Bard Music Festival Weekend of Saint-Saëns 2012-08-13T21:46:15Z In that regard, the slow movement was the highlight of an otherwise rather busy second cello sonata by Fauré. Review | Steven Isserlis keeps the music modern and strings old-fashioned in Library of Congress concert 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z After intermission, the evening, and the series, ended with the premiere of Mr. Lang’s “mystery sonatas,” a work of nearly 40 minutes for solo violin performed stunningly by the brilliant young violinist Augustin Hadelich. Music Review: David Lang’s ‘collected stories’ Series Ends With ‘memoir’ 2014-04-30T19:28:03Z But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas. Ralph Fiennes's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z These sonatas are big works, and the impromptus and D. 946 pieces each add up to sonata length on their own. Review: Two Concerts Explore Schubert, Before He Took His Leave 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This time, Adams limited himself to a few bars from Beethoven's penultimate piano sonata, Opus 110, and the "Diabelli" Variations for all his thematic material. John Adams on a big Beethoven kick in San Francisco 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z It's the same story in Grieg's second sonata, with passages of great lyrical sensitivity alternating with playing that loads the music with so much emotional weight, it threatens to collapse under it. Franck; Grieg; Jan??ek: Violin Sonatas ? review 2010-12-02T22:34:00Z Regardless, his performances of four Beethoven sonatas, offered in chronological order, showed that his insights and instincts remain keen, his dexterity enviable. Music Review: Maurizio Pollini Plays Beethoven at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:38:17Z Franz Joseph Haydn: I wrote a hundred symphonies, and 50-some sonatas, Masses, oratorios, concertos and cantatas. Style Invitational Week 1378: It’s (emergency) Parody Time 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Vladimir Horowitz, who performed the premiere, called it “the first truly great native work” in the piano sonata form. Music Review: The Pianist Maxim Anikushin at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-09T20:31:22Z More underrated, but no less accomplished, are her Beethoven interpretations, a sampling of which comes in a program of his cosmic final piano sonatas. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z On Tuesday, he plays the antepenultimate sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert; on Thursday, the penultimate. Opera & Classical Music Listings for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Though the pianist's Apollonian approach to both sonatas was admirable, one suspected a volcano being held in check. At 24, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers virtuosity beyond his years. If you haven't heard him, hear him now 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Speaking from Kansas City, Mo., they talked about their program of cello sonatas by Frank Bridge, Britten, Shostakovich and either Khachaturian or Beethoven, depending on the stop. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z For the pianist Jonathan Biss, 34, who teaches an online course about Beethoven and is midway through recording the complete 32 sonatas, “On the one hand, Beethoven is unspeakably profound,” he said. Musicians Grapple With Beethoven 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z More jarring than the skittish streams of 12-tone rows and whatnot is the rhythmic radicalism of the sonata. Review: Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich in All-Boulez Program 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Beethoven was a revolutionary mind and this revolutionary spirit is in each sonata. | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z The duo will play a generous program of four Mozart violin sonatas. Classical Music Listings for March 11-17 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z A concert offering all four of Charles Ives’s craggy violin sonatas might seem at first more a music history lesson than an engaging program. Review: Jeremy Denk and Stefan Jackiw’s Lessons in Ives’s Nostalgic Sonatas 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z I am looking into the whole collection of Beethoven sonatas; I just play one after the other. ‘Joy in the Grief’: Musicians Are Making Art in a Pandemic 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z The Brahms and Grieg sonatas, however, are about partnerships of equals, and we were able to appreciate fully the sweep of Chaushian's playing and the easy beauty and warmth of his tone. Chaushian/Wass – review 2013-01-09T18:27:18Z Wasn’t the good-humored Haydn sonata I played a masterpiece? Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Ever the striking programmer, Tan was in the process of interweaving Cage's extraordinary evocation of Asian music with a selection of sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. Melvyn Tan ? review 2011-08-17T17:43:06Z Paul Lewis has become one of our greatest contemporary Schubertians, and this disc captures his disconcerting, detailed, profoundly moving interpretations of the master’s three final piano sonatas. Classical Critics Pick the Top Music Recordings of 2014 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The sonata, by common consent Liszt’s greatest piano work, is the centerpiece, surrounded by works that touch Liszt’s most introspective and explosive sides. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z The sonatas confidently negotiate the lines between sentimentality and astringency, modernism and Romanticism, that composers are still dealing with. Classical Recordings: ?Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano? ? Review 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z There will be two performances with different programs, both of which blend sonatas and shorter chamber pieces. Spare Times for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z He performed and recorded repertory for violin and piano with his daughter, Pamela, including Beethoven’s 10 sonatas, recorded in the mid-1990s. Claude Frank, Pianist Admired for Performances of Beethoven, Is Dead at 89 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Passages in double-stops seemed tentative, with some difficulty producing a consistent sound that was strong and in tune, as in the third movement of the fifth sonata. Violinist Pamela Frank presents a rich program of all six Bach sonatas 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Among several major composing projects during his final months, Schubert wrote his last three piano sonatas. Music Review: Mitsuko Uchida Plays Schubert at Carnegie Hall 2012-04-12T22:06:00Z It segued into an ecstatic performance of that most ecstatic of sonatas, César Franck’s for violin and piano, heard here in Piccinini’s adroit transcription for her instrument. Pianist, flutist collaboration yields lyrical evening 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z That piece is structured like a sonata in the model of Haydn and other classical forebears, but first-movement explosion of rhythm in the bass receives the indication “a la James P. Johnson” in the score. A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z His account of the elusive, iconoclastic finale, which somehow merges complex fugues with a sprawling sonata form, was exhilarating. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z He brought to Carnegie a sprawling program, the culmination of a two-season series devoted to the final sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z This second volume is lucid yet intense in the poised Opus 31 sonatas and vital in the “Waldstein.” ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Luiza Borac, Alisa Weilerstein, Cédric Tiberghien and More 2014-02-26T19:54:43Z The remainder of the sonata offered plenty of glimpses of Mr. Abdelmoula’s impressive technique and interpretive intelligence — refined, no doubt, by his own experience as a composer. Review: Jean-Sélim Abdelmoula Displays Both Delicate and Robust Tones 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z He has played this profound work recently and brilliantly at Alice Tully Hall alongside the other two of Schubert’s three final piano sonatas. Paul Lewis Plays Mozart and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-08T23:12:58Z The order of the material in Mr. Boulez’s “Constellation-Miroir,” part of his third sonata and inspired by the Mallarmé poem, is not specified. Review: Festival for Contemporary Performance Opens With Film, Boulez and Chaos 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z As in his brilliant recordings of Haydn sonatas for Hyperion, Mr. Hamelin approached the relative simplicities with warmth and affection. Marc-André Hamelin Gradually Ups the Ante at Carnegie Hall 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z At the Little Night Music program at the Kaplan Penthouse later that evening, Mr. Vogt offered late sonatas by Schubert and Beethoven, which he described as “not exactly entertainment music.” Review: Lars Vogt Presents Late-Career Beethoven and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z In each of the sonatas, the pianist set the tone, a grand and glowing and flowing one that was a challenge to the violinist. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z The top layer was made up of a short two-part invention and a trio sonata; the Bach bread underneath was the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor for harpsichord. Bach forever! Camerata Pacifica enters the fray 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Alex Ross spoke with Mr. Schiff after he played the same program in Los Angeles, a conversation that centers on the Schubert sonata and particularly a significant trill near its beginning. Classical Music This Week: The Met and the Mets, Female Conductors and Schiff’s Pedal 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z He opened with the sonata, part of the final triptych Beethoven wrote while completely deaf. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z But the final three sonatas, composed when he was completely deaf, resist easy categorizations. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z But Bartók’s gripping, experimental, unsettled sonata became the vehicle where both players found themselves by losing themselves. There is no disrupting Yuja Wang and Leonidas Kavakos 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z But he established himself as Beethoven’s successor with this triptych of sonatas, though they were not published until 1838. Mitsuko Uchida and Schubert Sonatas at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:08:03Z Most astonishing, Mendelssohn was still in his teens when he wrote his first piano sonata. Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z But this sonata, written in 1978, takes expressive tension to neurotic heights, pushing the cello line to near breaking point in the two slow movements that frame a furious scherzo. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z He played the sonata with exactly the right wryness to demonstrate that longevity does not favor Type A personalities. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Her sound, too, balances mastery with mystery; her recent recordings of those partitas and sonatas for solo violin trace Bach’s lines with a touch that feels like exquisite, if singular, penmanship. Midori’s career started with a fleeting moment. It’s evolved into a lasting legacy. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z I’d throw in the father of the string quartet and the piano sonata. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four 2011-01-10T17:10:24Z Often, it means that someone is peddling a speculative reconstruction of fragmentary sketches, as happened in 2012, when the appearance of an alleged piano sonata by Beethoven prompted accusations of scholarly shenanigans. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z He makes a cleareyed, straightforward impression in this repertory, with a feeling more modest and self-effacing than in his slightly bolder versions of four of the sonatas on his solo debut recording, from 2016. A Sprawling Recording Focuses on Scarlatti’s Sonatas 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z His preoccupation with Beethoven, whose complete solo sonatas the pianist is recording, extends to a popular online course on the piano sonatas. Jonathan Biss reflects on ‘late style’ in piano masterworks by Beethoven, Brahms and Kurtág 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z The duo made a stellar combination in two slightly older pieces, beginning with a richly interpreted, smoldering performance of the first violin sonata of Brahms. Review | At the Phillips Collection, 2 young performers make for a dynamic combination 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z Earlier this season, she performed the complete Beethoven violin sonatas at Wigmore Hall, debuted with the Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and at Carnegie Hall. At the Symphony: pre-Classical classics, and a rising violin star 2011-05-12T19:26:09Z It’s the first in a three-concert series called “The Beethoven Project” in which they’ll explore all 10 of his violin sonatas. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z The mood is simmering and enigmatic in four Berio miniatures, which divide two Beethoven sonatas and Schumann’s Opus 17 fantasy, in which Mr. Haefliger is grand yet restrained. Classical Playlist: Ailyn Pérez and Stephen Costello, Milton Babbitt, Handel and More 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z The disc doesn't have space for the encore, and the whole sonata is, I'm pretty sure, presented here just as it was at the Festival Hall. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 2 no 3 and Op 106, etc – review 2012-11-07T15:46:44Z As he stepped off the stage and headed to the soundboard at the theater’s rear, he explained that the Prokofiev sonata was “the best work of 7/8 time ever — it’s pure rock.” Andrew Lloyd Webber: Lord, Baron, Rocker 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Similar problems beset the second half, with a group of Mazurkas pallidly despatched and a trawl through the great B flat minor sonata that was only sporadically interesting. Yundi | Classical review 2010-03-18T23:00:00Z The two began with a bold, insightful performance of Bartok’s teeming sonata. Review: Juxtaposing Contemporary and Classical, Sometimes With Forearms 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z A good Beethoven sonata performance must convey structure as well as daring. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z The series of solos performed by five dancers, and set to aching Bach sonatas, is a strenuous study in loneliness. Dance Listings for Jan. 30-Feb. 5 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z On Saturday, there are two piano sonatas by Walker along with a violin sonata, selected songs and a piano sonata, all Beethoven’s. Classical & Opera Listings for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z That’s what Schnabel’s accounts of these sonatas achieve: breadth and sweep, even when the tempos he takes are so rushed that passages turn muddy and phrases gets clipped short. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z These works took the sonata genre to a new dimension: multi-movement, episodic and often fitful, yet also ingeniously integrated. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Bells and choruses, human voices, like in the second movement of this sonata, it begins with bells, and there is a chorale. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z He did this to great effect in Prokofiev’s first sonata, in F minor. Review | Paul Huang nurtures the new amid the canon 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z He comes to Carnegie Hall for a Beethoven program of “Six Variations on an Original Theme” and three sonatas, including No. 23, the “Appassionata.” | Classical: Left Coast, Meet Right Coast 2014-03-15T16:00:09Z By the time the play, which has a classical form much like a sonata, reaches a final scene involving just one of the couples, its sharp narrowing in feels like a vast broadening out. Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The infant in the room, he flourished and emerged triumphant — with a crazily aggressive piano sonata to his name that ruined instruments when he played it. A George Benjamin Exacting Storm in Opera Comes to Mostly Mozart 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z This rewarding album includes beautiful accounts of Schubert’s Rondo in B minor and Sonata in A. The sonata is also pretty hard, especially the restless scherzo. New Recordings: Schubert Fantasie by Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich 2012-07-08T03:53:04Z I became aware of Mr. Levit only late last year when Sony Classical released his first solo recording to great acclaim in Europe — a two-CD set of the last five Beethoven piano sonatas. Music Review: An Intimate Entree, Escorted by Beethoven 2014-03-13T22:21:16Z This season, the piece, named after Beethoven’s lively piano sonata, is interpreted by a new generation of Juilliard students: it’s a dance as fresh as the dancers. Dance Review: ?Juilliard Dances Repertory? at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-03-30T21:31:38Z For all the audaciousness of this music, each sonata, even the playful-seeming works that exude Promethean humor, is an ingenious achievement in formal design. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z Played as an hourlong cycle, the sonatas push the pianist to physical and emotional limits, but the experience can prove to be an almost mystical one for both performer and listener. She’s Rising From the Depths of Soviet Music History 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z This program of all six Bach sonatas for violin and harpsichord was the most recent of several appearances in the past couple of years around Washington. Violinist Pamela Frank presents a rich program of all six Bach sonatas 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z “Illuminations,” also prompted by Rimbaud, fused what might have been the fractious gestures of a Pierre Boulez piano sonata with the cyclonic whorls of an avant-garde jazz pianist like Cecil Taylor. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z On one level, his tripartite sonata might be heard as a primal scream from an artist on an endless multi-date tour, when night offers less respite than tortured unrest. Stephen Hough – review 2012-10-10T14:25:13Z Richard Strauss’s violin sonata, adapted for flute, tested the other end of Ueno’s range, with plenty of bravura forte sound and beautifully placed high notes. Flutist Seiya Ueno’s local debut performance sells itself 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z By the first piano sonata, it’s completely Boulez and only Boulez. Musicians Discuss the Influence of Pierre Boulez 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z This narrative is not going to register the same as sonata form. Exploring a Cathartic Moment in a Lengthy String Quartet 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The range of works that survive today — 24 symphonies, a dozen concertos, the same number of violin sonatas, six published harpsichord sonatas, music for church services — suggests he was no compositional slouch. William Herschel Is Famous for Science. What About His Music? 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Teng Li, the principal violist of the Toronto Symphony, got interested in what the viola landscape was like in 1939, the year Hindemith wrote one of the more important sonatas for her instrument. Is streaming a threat to music? Not if musicians have anything to do with it 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Last May Mr. Dionne and other students received e-mails offering the chance to participate in this marathon and inviting each student to pick a sonata. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z Then at 8 p.m. on Friday, July 8, the violinist Gregory Fulkerson will perform in the first of two programs devoted to Bach’s complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin. String Delicacies of Bach and Beethoven at Bargemusic 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Carpenter's gothic, spookily tinted organ transcription of Scriabin's mystic short sonata proved then a useful corrective for Barber's bluster. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Two of the sonatas framed the first half of this programme, sharing, along with the Bartók they sandwiched, a sense of insistence. Leif Ove Andsnes – review 2013-04-10T17:20:01Z He introduced Mahler and Ives; he paid tribute to Hindemith, Stravinsky and sonata form. Brash, Confident and Democratic: How Leonard Bernstein Symbolized America 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The “little phrase” that Proust describes in Vinteuil’s sonata, the one that emerges over the piano’s rippling, may well be the second theme of Saint-Saëns’s first movement. Music Review: Paul Huang’s New York Debut Recital at Merkin Concert Hall 2012-12-20T23:17:14Z Mr. Kigawa recast the sonata as an essay in how to apply suppleness to virtuosity, and the result was an energetic but also characterful account. Music Review: Difficult Pieces Inspire a Pianist 2010-08-25T22:15:00Z As a pianist, Mr. Goldsmith was best known for his recordings of the Beethoven sonatas, Mr. Goode said. Harris Goldsmith, Critic and Classical Pianist, Dies at 78 2014-04-21T03:11:20Z Gallo didn’t receive his due until the 1950s, when his sonatas were finally credited as the inspiration for Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” Ballet. Music Review: Chamber Music Society’s Baroque Festival 2013-12-09T21:54:29Z But the sense is no longer common when the evening begins with percussive chords based on the last measures of the E-Minor sonata to be heard at evening's end. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z He recalls his father listening to Beethoven sonatas — his father, who in his later years lived without any music at all. In ‘Serious Noticing,’ James Wood Closely Reads Chekhov and Others — Including Himself 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z On the contrary, in the cello sonata it's probably just a little moment of absent-mindedness on Debussy's part which has slipped unnoticed into print. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z The first movement of the Debussy sonata begins with a stirring theme for piano. Review: Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich, in a Stirring Concert at the Frick 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Reworked by the composer for violin at the suggestion of famed violinist David Oistrakh, the sonata also is an effective vehicle for the violin — this time performed by Jesse Mills, with pianist Andrew Armstrong. SCMS fest, night 2: Jazzy Martinu, eloquent Tchaikovsky 2013-07-02T16:06:06Z Building to a mighty climax in a grand account of Liszt’s sprawling sonata, Levit projected a kind of burning patience through the evening. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z It couldn’t be further in character from the hell-storming distress of the sonata that preceded it, the much better known “Appassionata.” 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z There are many such moments of despair, longing and extraordinary beauty in Schubert’s final three sonatas, brooding and dramatic masterpieces written during the last few months of his life. Mitsuko Uchida and Schubert Sonatas at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:08:03Z In the program’s two sonatas Mr. Ax was less freewheeling but no less thoughtful. Music Review: A Reading of Schubert, Both Fiery and Fresh 2011-02-28T06:30:06Z But I ever so slighted rued that, since it consisted mostly of selections of movements, Tuesday’s recital included only one full Senaillé sonata. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z But in the true sense of the word encore, Mr. Denk repeated the wistful yet restless slow movement of the Ives sonata, “The Alcotts.” Music Review: Fill-In Delivers a Muscular Pairing of Ives and Bach?s ?Goldberg? Variations 2011-03-28T22:17:36Z Last season, she tackled Beethoven’s Hammerklavier sonata, considered one of the most difficult solo piano pieces ever written. Piano virtuoso Yuja Wang could have gone anywhere for this interview. She chose ... Universal Studios? 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z He imbued the Adagio with an arresting poignancy and a dignity that also rendered memorable the Busoni arrangements of two Bach Chorale Preludes, one performed before each sonata. Music Review: Paul Lewis at Zankel Hall With Beethoven and Bach 2014-03-27T22:36:02Z After a survey of Debussy's complete piano music, and another devoted to Haydn's sonatas, he turns his attention to Bartók's piano concertos. Bart?k: The Piano Concertos 2010-08-26T21:42:00Z His recordings of the sonatas impress for their intellectual command, their control of pacing, and for musical architecture – their seriousness, in other words. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z "The Schubert sonata fits naturally between the Chaconne and Paganini Variations. It's one of his most lyrical in the vocal quality of every movement, even its more dramatic parts." Daniil Trifonov, 24, is ready to make magic at Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Audiences had applauded the sonata in Haifa, The New York Times reported, but in Tel Aviv, responded with stony silence. Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Liszt wrote the sonata after a visit to Italy where he heard a lecture on Dante's Divine Comedy. Pianist Angelo Villani: 'It's easy to lose sight of sharing moods and emotions' 2012-10-02T16:16:25Z Cycles of Beethoven’s complete piano sonatas, symphonies and string quartets are commonplace; the violin sonatas are much less frequently offered in entirety. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z Mr. Denk played the sonata with pristine clarity, ebullience and just a touch of coyness, which made the curious bits even more fascinating. Music Review: Jeremy Denk Performs in Peoples’ Symphony Series 2014-04-13T19:23:23Z Composers, critics, and concertgoers tend to think of Romanticism as a style that’s friendly and familiar, whether it’s offered in the form of a Schubert sonata, a Tchaikovsky symphony, or a Brahms quintet. Cultural Clicks: Tweets from God, the Songs of Summer, and Soccer Art 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z In the single movement for harpsichord alone, in the middle of the sixth sonata, Prutsman’s rough edges brought an unwelcome harshness. Violinist Pamela Frank presents a rich program of all six Bach sonatas 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Some of the Mozart piano sonatas I like a lot. Aretha Franklin does "own thing" with new album 2010-03-19T21:54:00Z Like many of Ms. Frank’s scores, this sonata reflects the composer’s cultural heritage; her mother is a Peruvian of Chinese descent, and her father an American of Lithuanian Jewish background. Music Review: ‘Happy Birthday, Ursula!,’ a Tribute at Symphony Space 2014-03-11T22:07:11Z So it is with Sir Andras Schiff’s “The Last Sonatas,” a three-part exploration of the three final sonatas written by the four quintessential composers of the Classical era: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Pianist Schiff rises to challenge of weighty ‘Last Sonatas’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It was a different and more relaxed artist who emerged to play the second sonata in A and the rest of the programme. András Schiff – review 2012-11-21T19:21:09Z After acclaimed accounts of Beethoven’s last sonatas and Bach’s partitas, Mr. Levit shows no sign of slowing down. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z He alternated the two piano sonatas with Prokofiev’s popular two violin sonatas, performed with the appealingly straightforward Guy Braunstein, their partnership settled and comfortable. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev’s Overlooked Piano Sonatas 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z The duo offered committed performances of three Mozart sonatas, with Mr. Wosner’s singing tone and expressive musicality complementing Ms. Koh’s insightful, richly hued playing. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z Edward Dusinberre brings the same wonderfully subtle and intensely musical qualities to these two violin sonatas as he does to Beethoven's quartets in his day job as leader of the peerless Takács Quartet. Beethoven: Violin Sonatas Opp 47 & 96 2010-07-15T21:15:00Z He brought his ever-impressive intensity and urbane lyrical polish to sonatas by Shostakovich and Franck. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z His rendering of the opening theme of that second movement in the Mozart sonata showed particular poise. Music Review: Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall 2012-11-05T19:39:22Z Mr. Morris has found a story in the music — his own story, but somehow well suited to the structure and mood of the sonata. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Denk argues that the Ives sonatas, composed early in the 20th century, are mistakenly categorized as avant-garde works rather than “epic Romantic sonatas with Lisztian thematic transformations.” Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z Koh's program put the first and third sonatas together on the first half of the program, common-sensically withholding the most impressive and dramatic and longest — the C-Minor Sonata, Opus 30, No. 2 — until after intermission. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Here, he turns his forensic eye on Brahms's mightiest sonata, No 3, Op 5, gripping us from the start with its opening declamatory descending octaves and holding us spellbound through to the ecstatic close. Brahms: Piano Sonata No 3; Handel Variations – review 2013-01-13T00:05:34Z The sonata is packed with memorable tunes, but it is also insistently gritty, a quality Ms. Vinokur stressed in the vigorous opening movement and the breakneck closing Fugue. Music Review: Musical Americana Afloat at Bargemusic 2011-07-08T22:19:10Z There are also sonatas and duos by Saint-Saens, Fauré, Ravel and the brilliant British composer Thomas Adès. The Week Ahead: Dec. 5-11 2010-12-03T15:15:00Z The sonata could so easily have been a vehicle for showing off technique, and here it was much more showing off how it might have been played in Beethoven’s time, probably in someone’s living room. Itzhak Perlman, Rohan De Silva performed in perfect partnership | Classical review 2013-02-20T17:30:17Z In his mature piano sonatas, chamber works and songs, Schubert, like Beethoven, entered some mystic place beyond era and cultural context. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Vienna Four Part 2 2011-01-11T12:00:49Z “There is something special,” he added, “about the level of listening of an audience who comes to hear a Beethoven sonata rather than hear X play Beethoven sonatas.” Chamber Music?s Busy Power Couple 2010-10-15T16:57:00Z The third movement of the same sonata, marked "allegretto", was heavily turgid until a sudden angry scramble in the closing bars. Ll?r Williams ? review 2011-08-23T10:26:37Z In the exquisite slow movements of the second and fourth sonatas, which were the best of the evening, he separated onion-thin layers of delicate voicing and produced countless gradations of gossamer-soft sound. Pianist Yefim Bronfman performs Prokofiev sonatas 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The sonata abounds in these sudden changes, and Bronfman’s furious playing at one moment and his gentleness at the next showed them to their utmost. Yefim Bronfman: Flying fingers and heartfelt Prokofiev | Classical review 2012-12-11T19:02:01Z At 42 he is now immersed in a project he calls his “Beethoven Journey,” performing the sonatas and concertos, and recording all five concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, which he also conducts. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z I found myself doing as much when, despite tumultuous phrases lasting until the final moments of the sonata, a lone note emerged. Review: A Pianist’s Modern Vision of Conflict and Persistence 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z The opening one offers Bach’s three solo violin sonatas, intriguingly interspersed with shorter pieces by Philip Glass and Bartok. String Delicacies of Bach and Beethoven at Bargemusic 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z His playing is directly communicative, seductively decorative and, in the sonata, aristocratically controlled, though curiously in that work the sound sometimes seems marginally more distant it is on the rest of the disc. Chopin: Sonata in B minor; Berceuse; Barcarolle; Polonaise-Fantasy 2010-04-15T21:10:00Z Since then he has taken an unusually eclectic path, recording the concertos and sonatas of Mendelssohn, Grieg, Fauré and Walton on the one hand, while premiering works by cutting-edge contemporary composers on the other. String fellow 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z In its elegiac final movement, the sonata had a stateliness that recalled the piece Mr. Kuderna performed at the beginning of the concert, an addition to the printed program. Music Review: Memorials and Reveries in a Cozy Cabaret Setting 2011-08-22T22:39:58Z By the end of Bell’s program, centered on three big Romantic-era sonatas, I felt little consolation or profound meaning. Review | Finding escape from despair in Bell’s Romantic recital 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z Do you think you might rerecord the Beethoven sonatas at some point? | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z He dreamed big dreams, bigger than études or sonatas. A Novel About the Fate of a Piano — and the Dreams It Embodies 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Their interpretations are exemplary throughout — Mr. Melnikov’s sensitive, virtuosic playing meshing to fine effect with Mr. Queyras’s soulful, burnished tone; the renditions of the later sonatas are exciting and deeply musical. Classical Playlist: Carl Nielsen, Lou Harrison, Bach and More 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Not all that long ago was a drearier time, when Haydn’s piano sonatas were taken less seriously than those of Mozart and Beethoven. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z So Levin instead uses the operatic expressive range of his chosen instrument to imbue the sonatas with visceral drama. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Composed over a period of 19 years, this 32-minute sonata, though, is for viola, not piano. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z After intermission, in the rarely performed, richly wistful Bridge sonata, these musicians didn’t lose their restraint but gained tension as more extravagant emotion kept spilling past the reserve. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z But it was in the lyrical ardour of some of Brahms's second subjects, and the andante second movement of the sonata, that she reached real heights. Angela Hewitt 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z He revisits the sonata next Sunday as part of a Liszt recital at the 92nd Street Y; he will repeat the program at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark on April 15. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z To hear Prokofiev’s violin sonatas together is to be reminded why the Second is heard more often than the First. Review: Steven Osborne Is Joined by 2 Collaborators at Kaplan Penthouse 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z His legacy is defined by intimidating bodies of symphonies, string quartets, piano sonatas and more, now canonic. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z If you follow his compositional development through the five sonatas, the cello emerged as an equal partner to the piano. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The first sonata, revised in 1991, offers some of the galloping energy seemingly required when suggesting Americana, but it also includes a rambunctious harmonic edge that bristles with maverick spirit. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Inon Barnatan offered a persuasive account of the sonata, in which two brief pensive meditations surrounded a dense, agitated middle movement redolent of Berg. Music Review: A New Scottish Concerto, Dressed Up and Dreamy 2011-03-03T21:49:11Z “I just finished playing a sonata with my tail.” The Nice Guy Who Puts the Mean Into ?Glee? 2010-10-22T08:06:00Z From the opening Adagio, passionate yet poised, to the ideally spirited Allegro finale, that sonata is a particular highlight of an intimate, stylish album. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z At another point, buttoned-up Lucy, whose only emotional vent is pounding out Beethoven piano sonatas, pours out her feelings in “Ludwig and I,” an over-the-top fantasy out of a comic operetta. A visit to romance and Italy in ‘Room with a View’ 2014-05-03T00:30:45Z The Janacek sonata that opens this recording and the Bartok Sonata No. 1 that closes it clearly play to the duo’s strengths: curiosity, an impatience with convention and exceptional technique. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But as a performance, it was more a placeholder, and a promise of what lies ahead — the middle- and late-period sonatas Biss will perform in the next two concerts, in December and March. Review | An ailing Jonathan Biss valiantly works his way through program of Beethoven sonatas 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z In February, I heard three separate performances of the clarinet sonata as three different groups wrestled with the fact that Bernstein wrote hardly any chamber music. Perspective | Too much Bernstein leaves a critic fed up with his music 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z He always started with an apéritif — a Handel sonata, to warm up the stomach. Amit Peled, Cellist, Walks in the Footsteps of Pablo Casals 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Two excellent sonatas filled the first half, beginning with Cello Sonata, Op. For cellist Alban Gerhardt, a strong start but a weak second half 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z In all his sonatas Brahms made the pianist an equal if not dominant partner, and Mr. Golan, with the piano lid wide open, challenged Mr. Rachlin with his fire, virtuosity and sheer amplitude. Music in Review: Julian Rachlin and Itamar Golan at 92nd Street Y 2012-12-09T23:04:01Z A sense of resignation and acceptance pervades the triptych of sonatas that he completed in 1822, given majestic, profound readings by the pianist Richard Goode on Wednesday evening at Carnegie Hall. Music Review: Richard Goode at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-03T22:16:10Z Beethoven’s performance of a Mozart sonata fails to impress its composer, who suddenly urges Beethoven to improvise. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Looking back, I can’t believe how much I bought into the masterpiece mystique surrounding the Beethoven sonatas. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z But no one could tell Heifetz, who was born in Vilnius and moved to the United States in 1917, what music to play, and the Strauss sonata was a particular favorite. Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z He also recorded duets of Beethoven's 10 sonatas with his violinist daughter during the 1990s. Classical pianist Frank dies aged 89 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Musicians of the future would be able to “record a sonata with an instrument that will no longer function,” he said. To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z When another pianist, Igor Levit, streamed Beethoven sonatas from an empty studio, I marveled to a colleague that the Twitter wags who like to dismiss his artistry were simply crazy. When Opera Entered the Chat 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Ives’s piano sonatas, Mr. Denk said, “are in a way like animals that don’t want to be tamed.” Taming Ives With Head, Heart and Humor 2010-10-03T02:00:00Z A physically exuberant player, Ms. Lim tossed back her long, untied hair during more tumultuous moments and played with expressive commitment and colorful nuance throughout both sonatas. Music Review: H J Lim Performs Piano Sonatas at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z But what if those bulging CD shelves and closets full of LPs from which you yearn to be unshackled are filled with symphonies, sonatas and operas? Spotify?s Classical-Streaming Service Takes Baby Steps 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z Mr. Peskanov performed the music she was practicing that day, the Adagio and Fugue from the G minor piano sonata. ArtsBeat Blog: Remembering September 11 With Music 2011-09-11T21:09:27Z "I just finished playing a sonata with my tail." The nice guy who puts the mean into 'Glee' 2010-10-23T00:12:00Z The sonata ends with a tender repeat of the movement’s wistful main theme. Music Review: An Intimate Entree, Escorted by Beethoven 2014-03-13T22:21:16Z If he were to play one of his sonatas, would one hand sound as though it were playing in a different key to the other? My Beethoven moment 2010-09-07T20:30:00Z Particularly impressive is the way they convey the coherence of the final movement of the second sonata, written as a theme and variations — music that often seems awkwardly intricate, with curious turns and twists. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z He sometimes appeared as soloist or recitalist, and among his solo records was an LP of the Mendelssohn sonatas. David Soyer obituary 2010-05-11T18:05:00Z The thorny question of whether or not pianists should take the exposition repeats in Schubert’s late sonatas. Classical Music This Week: Schubert, Bloland and Lip-Synching ‘Salome’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z Bernstein is a superb musician; he doesn’t quite meet the furies of Beethoven’s last sonata, Op. A Portrait of the Artist as an Older Man 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Mozart was probably composing violin sonatas in the womb, and had knocked out 16 by the age of 10. Pass notes No 2,892: Mozart 2010-12-05T21:00:00Z Carpenter played four of his works, starting with the A Major prelude and including a trio sonata he wrote to teach his sons to play the organ. Carpenter energizes Kennedy Center with irreverent organ performance 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Recorded in a studio in Holland, meanwhile, the two sonatas are more straightforward. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 4; Sonatas No 14 (Op 27, No 2 'Moonlight') and 31 (Op 110) 2011-02-10T21:29:01Z One of the world’s great Schubert interpreters, Ms. Uchida also held audiences at Carnegie spellbound with her recent performances of late Beethoven sonatas. Mitsuko Uchida and Schubert Sonatas at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:08:03Z At Bargemusic, he offers a traversal of Bach’s complete sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin that reflects his study of historically informed performance using a Baroque-style bow. Emotions Flip From Note to Note 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z By his teens, Hayes was playing Mozart sonatas and performing in competitions. To Become Oscar Levant, Sean Hayes Revisited His First Role 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z On Monday, he’s back at Benaroya for another solo evening, this time with a program that, he says, “is all about the history of the sonata form.” Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z Scarlatti’s brazenly inventive sonatas seemed, implausibly, the more radical of the two. A Pianist Loses Himself in a Musical ‘Labyrinth’ 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z The progression over the course of the sonatas — a musical document of his hearing loss in transition — is not perfectly linear by any stretch of the imagination, but it’s undeniable. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Veering from ethereal to vehement, Ms. Vinokur easily handled the sonata’s tempestuous challenges. Music Review: Olga Vinokur in Recital at Bargemusic 2013-01-04T22:37:50Z It was during one of those conversations recently that I asked a friend whether he was planning to see the pianist Mitsuko Uchida’s recital of late Beethoven sonatas at Carnegie Hall. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Can you believe that a composer and conductor of symphonies, operas and sonatas was once known as colloquially to Americans as RiRi is today? Leonard Bernstein Through a Daughter’s Eyes 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z A gifted artist, he had composed 13 symphonies by the age of 11, and his recordings of Joseph Haydn's piano sonatas are considered definitive. Composer John McCabe dies aged 75 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Brahms also wrote epic concertos, sonatas and chamber works that at once honored and utterly transformed the Classical forms. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z As it all came together, Kyle Werner, composer of the sonata for violin and piano that inspired the dance, was looking at a monitor under a production tent, overwhelmed. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z They made a convincing case for their approach in the Beethoven sonatas, a beguiling pleasure from the first gentle, springy notes to the last wild fugue. Review | Vienna in Vienna: Chamber music at Wolf Trap 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Tao, who had gone into the studio to record three Mozart sonatas, also laid down the tracks that became “American Rage”; he doesn’t know what will come of that planned Mozart album. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The event concluded his three-year survey of the Beethoven sonatas in New York. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z For the occasion Mr. Lubimov looked at the forward end of the fortepiano repertory, beginning and ending with late Beethoven sonatas and offering a Glinka rarity and a pair of Schubert impromptus between them. Music Review: Alexei Lubimov at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2012-03-28T22:12:14Z The structure, counterpoint and harmony of the sonata allude to Beethoven, Bach and Hindemith; the percussive drive shows the influence of Prokofiev. Classical Recordings: Sebastian Currier: Piano Sonata, Other Works ? CD Review 2011-12-22T15:26:52Z Lewis, a star former pupil of the now-retired Austrian pianist Alfred Brendel, has, like his great mentor, been widely praised for his performances and recordings of the Beethoven sonatas and concertos. Pianist Lewis launches cycle of Schubert's late keyboard works 2011-02-09T18:28:15Z Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas are a library of masterworks spanning a lifetime of styles and artistic growth. Review | An ailing Jonathan Biss valiantly works his way through program of Beethoven sonatas 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z He certainly nailed the formidably difficult Liszt sonata. Critic’s Notebook: Recitals by Nikolay Khozyainov and Emanuele Torquati 2013-05-02T21:46:24Z In this short program, there was room for one of the Bach partitas, or even one of the Ysaye sonatas that Murray recorded in 2012. Review | A violinist veils herself in virtuosity 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z She plays three sonatas, including the last one Schubert wrote, the B flat. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Here was a rare performance that reconciled the contrary elements of this single-movement, 30-minute sonata: the wild fantasy, the inexorable sweep, the unorthodox design. Music Review: A Beethoven Warm-Up and a Liszt Workout 2010-11-21T22:53:00Z Born into a family of classical musicians, Ms. Jansen sang in church from a young age, played Bach sonatas accompanied by her father at the harpsichord and witnessed rehearsals of early-music groups in her home. A Violinist as Riveting in Silence as in Sound 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Denk’s playing in the first movement of the Beethoven sonata progressed from crabby and benumbed to demonic and compulsive. Music Review: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Jeremy Denk at Mostly Mozart 2010-08-20T22:02:00Z The instrumentation was dictated by a Bartok sonata that's also on the program, which will be interspersed with a panel conversation that includes Gehry. Composer Andrew Norman tries to evoke Gehry home in 'Frank's House' 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z “The Magic of Schubert,” a festival next winter that will offer performances of Schubert’s sonatas, quartets, dances, octets and lieder, will anchor the Chamber Music Society’s 2020-21 season, which was announced on Tuesday. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Explore Schubert 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Tetzlaff devoted his recital to sonatas by Schumann, Franck and Bartok. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-10-28T22:53:58Z The festival’s closing gala turned into a three-hour-plus traversal of Beethoven’s music for cello and piano, the five sonatas and three sets of variations. 109 cellos and one obsession in Walt Disney Concert Hall 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z The program also included four songs by Beethoven, who was far less comfortable composing lieder than he was writing sonatas and symphonies. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z These early and middle sonatas show Beethoven in his revolutionary, heaven-storming mode. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson packs Disney Hall for a thrilling, sometimes punishing, performance 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z During the 1940s he wrote prolifically, including three witty and inventive piano sonatas; an exuberant Sonata for Violin and Piano; and diverse chamber works and songs. Harold Shapero, 93, American Neo-Classical Composer, Dies 2013-05-22T03:58:50Z His recordings have swollen from a collection of four Beethoven sonatas to the entire cycle; his performances, from a traditional recital to, as of Sunday, a livestream lasting over 15 hours. ‘I Just Let Myself Go’: Igor Levit on Surviving a Satie Marathon 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Others will find this creepy little sonata a dream or nightmare worth succumbing to, and believing in. The Woman in the Fifth: L'amour and la mort in Paris 2012-06-14T17:45:32Z Things were a little easier back in the days when sonata form, rondo and other such genres were common, though in reality those classical forms provided little more than general layouts. Music Review: Mivos Quartet Performs Compositions by Modernists 2012-10-14T21:20:40Z Biss, a highly respected artist who is recording all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas, plays three of them here, including two of the most exciting ones, the “Tempest” and the “Appassionata.” 9 Seattle-area classical music performances to go to this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z At school, he learned a Mozart sonata, but would also experiment with something else if it interested him. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z A continuous half-hour movement, the opulent Romantic sonata, written in 1910 and ’11 and nicknamed the “Night Wind,” sounded murky, meandering and pointlessly showoffy: a lot, and yet not very much. Music Review: A Lively Jaunt With Medtner, Schubert and Chopin 2014-01-28T22:04:04Z On Friday, that sonata still in the audience’s ears, he closed the concert with an unsentimental, graceful version of the opening aria from the “Goldbergs.” Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z But what if he were neither amateur nor any more outsider than Beethoven, who railed against the establishment with every new symphony, sonata or string quartet? The 24-hour Joshua Tree party to celebrate Lou Harrison's 100th birthday 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z In the wake of the Chaconne’s tragic wreckage, Hahn left the audience with a parting gift: the Andante from Bach’s A-minor sonata, a serenely meditative close to a memorable concert. Review | Hilary Hahn shows mature artistry with Bach violin solos 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z But the Strauss sonata was not on the program of his next concert, a benefit in Rehovot for the Chaim Weizmann Institute. Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z The project followed his recording of the sonatas and partitas. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z The program was an abridged version of the complete Prokofiev piano sonata cycle that Bronfman is playing around the world this season, generally spaced over three evenings. Pianist Yefim Bronfman performs Prokofiev sonatas 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The other recording was a Columbia LP of Rudolf Serkin playing three titled piano sonatas by Beethoven: the “Pathétique,” the “Moonlight” and the “Appassionata.” A Critic’s Ode to a Childhood Joy in Classical Music 2013-07-17T16:12:32Z Friday’s concert blends Brahms’s viola sonatas — transcribed from the clarinet versions — with Schumann and Joel Friedman; Andrew Gonzalez is the violist, Ji the pianist. Classical Music Listings for July 1-7 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z He began the sonata impulsively, almost violently, and the runs that followed had cool, etched clarity rather than the expected flowing smoothness. Paul Lewis Plays Mozart and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2013-08-08T23:12:58Z Composer Ludwig van Beethoven: He lost his hearing, but his marvelous music is loved all over the world: overtures, sonatas, concertos — we treasure it all. Style Invitational Week 1374: ‘Versus’ verses 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z But at Soapbox, “I was certainly warmed up,” he said, having played the Talma piece before his sonata. A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z I especially wish she had spent more time on the march’s sequel, the last section of the grand sonata, an epilogue to a funeral. From Concerts to Cartoons: Chopin’s Most Famous Composition 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Trifonov had chosen a programme to suit his strengths – sonatas by Scriabin and Liszt, followed by Chopin's 24 Preludes Op 28. Daniil Trifonov – review 2012-12-05T19:40:44Z Virtually motionless, eyes closed to the world, he seemed to immerse himself in the sonatas as much as play them — a self-effacing lack of showmanship that let the music emerge with unexpected power. Review: In a violinist’s high-wire act, virtuoso Kristóf Baráti transfixes 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z So in just moments he established the overall nature of this bold sonata as music that shifts between the prankish and the eloquent, the simple and the fancy. Review: Andras Schiff Turns Mischievous at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z “Robert went with a fiddle up to the Matterhorn, and at the top of the Matterhorn he played a Bach sonata.” Luise Rainer, ’30s Star Who Won Back-to-Back Oscars, Dies at 104 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Trumpeter Kris Kwapis joins the orchestra for “Baroque Celebration!,” a program of trumpet sonatas by Corelli and Handel as well as works for strings and harpsichord and selections from SBO’s new Vivaldi CD. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Dec. 23 2012-12-20T00:49:36Z On Saturday at Alice Tully Hall he is to offer a recital of Schubert’s final three piano sonatas as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival. Classical: The Sad Beauty in Schubert’s Last Sonatas 2012-10-14T02:00:41Z The Beethoven survey at Carnegie continues with the first of three concerts from this chamber-music supergroup, all of which feature a cello sonata, a violin sonata and a piano trio: here, the Cello Sonata Op. 6 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Which other pianists appeal to you in this B flat sonata, in this movement? Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z They also played an early violin sonata by Mozart that hardly ever turns up in performance. Review: Strangers and Familiar Friends of Classical Music 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But Mr. Simons so thoroughly caught the refined, haute spirit in a pure, but sensual, and modern way, that he deserves a couture house and its heritage to play his fashion sonata. Special Report: Fashion: At Jil Sander, Raf Simons Plays With Modernism 2011-09-25T16:45:15Z The 12 sonatas of Opus 1 by Giustini are harmonic links between the late Baroque and early Classical periods. Music Review: Olivier Cavé Plays Bach and Others at the Frick Collection 2014-03-17T22:13:54Z He is playing Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins and his sonatas for violin and keyboard, a Brahms chamber concert and the violin concertos of Berg, Beethoven and Dvorak. Music: A Call for More New Music From New York Philharmonic 2012-01-06T17:00:00Z From start to finish this is an intriguing but baffling sonata. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z While Tchaikovsky’s melodic talents are less pronounced here than in his better-known works, memorable themes surface throughout the sonata. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:48:00Z A sonata for violin and piano played softly one recent night. Critic’s Notebook: Pete Wells Explores Korean Restaurants in Queens 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z As Beethoven grew older, his sonata form got shorter and shorter. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Here, in an elegant recording, is a rare survey of the complete sonatas for two violins by Jean-Marie Leclair, sparkling with French refinement and spirit. Classical Playlist: Bang on a Can All-Stars, Meredith Monk, Kojiro Umezaki and More 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z He returns to Disney on March 4 for the four composers' penultimate sonatas and in October for their final ones. András Schiff slyly and expertly plays late sonatas of legends 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The language Iverson uses when discussing his upcoming compositional premieres — including more sonatas, as well as orchestral arrangements of Ellington — enjoys a reprise whenever he discusses the balance of the Sono Fest! programming. A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z His large catalog features several concertos, numerous chamber pieces and five piano sonatas; he has received commissions from the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Review: Pairing Beethoven With George Walker at Mannes College 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Here, I’m not convinced that there’s anything in this sonata that really is a final statement. Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Traumatized, he nearly perished at 16, but he found the will to live in a haunting Beethoven sonata. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z He simultaneously glorified the traditional forms — symphony, sonata, quartet — and pushed them to the breaking point. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z His discography includes a probing survey of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas, recorded in London during the early 1930s. 5 Hours of Glenn Gould Outtakes. Why? Listen and Find Out. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Pianist Llyr Williams is tackling the Beethoven sonata cycle over one year in a series of concerts at Perth Concert Hall, but other venues are reaping the occasional benefit, too. Llyr Williams 2010-07-19T21:31:00Z He eventually chose Haydn, four or five of whose piano sonatas he had in his repertoire at the time. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z At the start of the Grave of the second sonata his sound was at its most radiant and singing; at the end it thinned into quiet desolation. Johnny Gandelsman Performs Bach Violin Works at Bargemusic 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z He is such a probing and sensitive artist that it’s easy to take for granted how technically brilliant his playing is — as in his bracing account of the first movement of this early sonata. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z He imposed his presence and personality on a work that was once the Cinderella of the of the final sonatas, but which is nowadays rightly seen as fully the equal of its two great companions. Paul Lewis – review 2012-11-14T16:17:45Z With an idiosyncratic mix of sonatas by Mozart, Beethoven and Scriabin, two short pieces by Granados and a Liszt showpiece, the 24-year-old Grosvenor summoned the likes of the great Vladimir Horowitz. At 24, Benjamin Grosvenor delivers virtuosity beyond his years. If you haven't heard him, hear him now 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Biber’s mystery sonatas and set of seven partitas all use scordatura, which requires each string on the violin to be tuned differently, producing a wide range of sonorities and colors. Music Review: Daniel S. Lee Plays ‘The Crucifixion’ for Tenet’s TENEbrae 2014-03-24T22:40:14Z This urbane album doesn’t pair Reynaldo Hahn’s seldom performed violin sonata with its clearest precursors — the much better known sonatas of Fauré, whom Hahn revered. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Also a pianist, Auerbach recently recorded her own violin-and-piano version of Shostakovich’s 24 preludes, along with her own sonata “Arcanum,” on ECM. Perspective | The top 35 female composers in classical music 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z Paul Lewis Understated yet alert to drama, this British pianist didn’t wallow in sentiment while playing Beethoven’s final three sonatas in November at Alice Tully Hall. The Best Classical Music of 2015 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z They would play something like a dozen pieces each: preludes and fugues, chorales, chorale preludes, sonatas, concerti, variations, and “free” works drawn from Bach’s five decades as a working organist. Bach in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z In a way, he did: as he traced Bach’s increasingly free-spirited writing in the final three sonatas, his phrasing grew more outgoing. Music Review: Frank Peter Zimmermann, Alan Gilbert and Enrico Pace - Review 2011-10-13T22:20:12Z To make his point, he played an excerpt from a Mozart sonata. At the Bard Music Festival, Concerts and Argument 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z “It has idealism,” he said of the sonata. Menahem Pressler, Pianist Who Co-Founded the Beaux Arts Trio, Dies at 99 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Buchbinder is continuing to indulge his passion for Beethoven with a second set of discs on that composer’s 32 sonatas, this time in live recordings on the Sony Classical label. Music Review: Rudolf Buchbinder at Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-08-15T22:36:11Z This month's two Pollini Project concerts are devoted to Beethoven and Schubert, and to each composer's last trilogy of sonatas. Maurizio Pollini ? review 2011-02-16T18:18:07Z She brought along the sheet music for the sonatas because she knew Bach was Jarrett’s favorite classical composer. Jazz Pianist Jarrett Goes Classical with Bach CD 2013-10-18T14:22:45Z A week later, Piatigorsky went to a Casals recital, which began with this sonata. Why are 102 cellos in Disney Hall? Ralph Kirshbaum is happy to tell you 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z His performance of the sonata proved memorable, concluding with crystalline, elegantly flowing trills. Review: Lars Vogt Presents Late-Career Beethoven and Schubert at Mostly Mozart 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z In the opening of the Beethoven sonata, with its out-of-sync voices, Mr. Nasseri looked at his hands like a parent exasperated by fighting children. Music Review: Soheil Nasseri, Running the Gamut at Merkin Hall 2013-09-04T21:09:01Z Though Mr. Lewis has a wide repertory, he has been making his name through his performances and recordings of the complete Beethoven piano sonatas and piano concertos on the Harmonia Mundi label. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Yet the highlight was a strikingly minimalist sonata by Michael Christian Festing, whose lachrymose Largo, only 12 measures in length, was an innovative, baroque version of 12-bar blues. York Early Music festival ? review 2011-07-12T18:10:00Z The bulk of the program was devoted to the two sonatas for cello and piano by Brahms, bedrock repertory pieces completed roughly 21 years apart: the first in 1865, its successor in 1886. Music Review: Steven Isserlis at the 92nd Street Y 2013-01-28T22:31:28Z The concert closed with Bartok’s six Romanian Folk Dances, which Ms. Grimaud performed as refined and urbane, contemporaries of Berg’s sonata rather than quaintly folksy. Music Review: Back at the Keyboard After a Difficult Interlude 2011-02-01T21:43:30Z The program opened with Mr. Magloire’s new “Symmetry,” set to Handel violin sonatas. Dance Review: 104 Degrees of Spirited Dancing 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z When we hear a Brahms symphony or a Beethoven piano sonata, we carry around with us our previous hearings. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Playing the complete Beethoven piano sonata cycle is a feat Lill has performed before. John Lill to perform Beethoven, more at Benaroya April 30 2014-04-24T20:45:08Z Never would Beethoven have imagined that the soft, passionate melody made up of parts — as all sonatas are — would come to mind when thinking of long-unrequited love between men in the Oscar-nominated film, “Moonlight.” Moonlight sonata: Will the film’s Oscar nod make Hollywood legitimize gay relationships of color? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Weinberg’s chamber music — including 17 string quartets and solo string sonatas for not just violin, viola and cello but also for double bass — is also rich in variety. Recognition for a Composer Who Captured a Century’s Horrors 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The sonata, which closed the program, was preceded by an evocative rendering of “Romeo and Juliet Before Parting” from Prokofiev’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Music Review: A Pianist Explores the Smoother Side of an Often-Aggressive Sound 2010-12-02T22:44:00Z “Some of the clusters in these sonatas,” he said during the interview, “could be taken out of Bartok.” At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z This enables the writers to render the character as an invisible presence at an occasion where she's acutely missed, a harmonizing grace note within a dissonant sonata. Like Samantha, divorce yourself from the "Sex in the City" sequel, which has aged but hasn't matured 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z By then, the die was cast: Kapustin’s pieces from then on featured the strong influence of jazz — whether he was writing sonatas, études or concertos. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Many young virtuoso pianists perform the Beethoven sonatas as a demonstration of their musical depth. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall, Part of a 19-City Tour 2014-03-20T23:37:04Z But if a knock-on effect is that recital audiences also get to hear more of Andsnes in the Beethoven sonatas, it will be worth it. Leif Ove Andsnes – review 2013-04-10T17:20:01Z The brilliant pianist Jeremy Denk plays a typically inventive program that opens with Mozart’s Sonata in C minor and ends with Beethoven’s final sonata, in the same key. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in October 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Ten years ago," Lewis reflects, "I played a Schubert sonata cycle across six venues in the UK, then the whole thing in France. 'Schubert writes something from another planet' 2011-01-09T00:05:16Z “Autumnal” is the word most often used in association with Brahms’s viola sonatas. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Written in a late Romantic, chromatic idiom, Respighi’s sonata shows the influence of Brahms, Debussy and Franck; but the aimless piece lacks the cohesion and immediate appeal of his colorful tone poems. Leonidas Kavakos and Yuja Wang Play Brahms and Respighi 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z I didn’t read all his pieces, and the little I read was maybe not so superior, but this sonata is absolutely a gem. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The sonatas were temporally close but spanned a huge range of styles and textures. Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos team up triumphantly at Strathmore 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z And on Saturday and Sunday, Mr. Peskanov will round out his complete survey of the Beethoven violin sonatas, with the pianist Nina Kogan. Classical Music Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z How often do you get to use "roaring excitement" and "Bach sonatas" in the same sentence? Tribute: George Shangrow, a roaring presence on Seattle's classical-music scene 2010-08-07T00:21:00Z He has recorded the Mozart concertos, conducting from the keyboard, and presented marathons of the complete Mozart sonatas. The Hot List: David Greilsammer at the Mostly Mozart Festival 2012-06-21T21:28:20Z Yet he had never played a complete Beethoven sonata cycle. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z Three of his sonatas, including the zestful No. 6 in G and the brilliant Italian Concerto, share the program with the flashy Sonata in D minor by the Italian Baroque virtuoso Locatelli. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:37:00Z Despite their consummate skill and musicianship they couldn’t elevate the unmemorable sonata much beyond the mundane. Music Review: Handel Players Make Their New York Debut at the Frick 2012-01-30T23:38:11Z The sonata begins with a brutal, gritty Allegro that sounds like Prokofiev on a 12-tone binge. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z But in the jazzy Bernstein sonata, he was completely at home, almost leading the performance. Despite the disconnect, clarinetist and pianist put on an enjoyable recital 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Lortie prefaces each of the scherzos with a nocturne in a related key as well, providing moments of relieving calm between the cascading pyrotechnics, and ends the disc with the sonata. Chopin: Scherzos; Sonata No 2, etc 2010-07-01T21:35:00Z Lincoln Center said that Mr. Lewis planned to return to the White Light Festival on Nov. 14 for a scheduled recital of late Beethoven piano sonatas. Pianist Withdraws from Concerts, Citing Surgery 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Also in the programme is Alston's luminously funky Roughcut, set to two Steve Reich scores for clarinet and guitar, and Unfinished Business, performed to works by Mozart including a piano sonata. This week's new theatre and dance 2012-02-11T00:05:00Z The inventiveness and variety of Scarlatti’s music proved as great a highlight of the evening as any other; Ms. Bilach’s playing illustrated the primary meaning of “sonata”: sound play. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center - Review 2011-11-10T23:06:42Z There may be no definitive way of programming a cycle of Beethoven's piano sonatas, whether it's in strict chronological order or with a balance of early, middle and late works in each recital. András Schiff – review 2013-03-18T16:03:29Z There’s a unique rawness to watching the sonatas and partitas played live, more so even than the cello suites. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z He followed the old tradition of labeling them as piano sonatas with violin accompaniment, but as important as the piano part is, we now hear the instruments as unequal, the violin dominating. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z A recital might focus on a single composer or group together a few sonatas; but there’s also another route, more conceptual, of compiling something more akin to a playlist. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Composers of what is known, for better or worse, as classical music have broken over time with sonata form, tonality, serialism and minimalism. where have classical music’s uppercase letters gone? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Beethoven broke ties with the Classical period with his final piano sonata, the mystical Opus 111. Music Review: Finding Beethoven?s Moods Hidden Between the Lines 2011-08-14T23:23:18Z Both sonatas were weighty and steeped in tragedy at times, but never leaden in sprightlier moments. Jennifer Koh’s Bach and Beyond Part III for Violin 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z He revealed the tension lurking below the undulant surface of the rondo that ends the sonata. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz at Zankel Hall 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z There was a lot of piano and chamber music, including a bassoon sonata – the sonata that Prokofiev or Poulenc never wrote! Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z This was the sonata that the noted Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman angrily played at Walt Disney Concert Hall six years ago when he controversially attacked American foreign intervention. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Well, there’s so much that is true Schubert in it, but it still occupies a unique place, this slow movement in the last sonata. Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Along with a trio sonata by Telemann, there were five concertos on the program. At Seattle Baroque Orchestra, virtuosity of a collegial kind 2014-01-19T18:23:06Z Those trills, to my ears, suggest the first movement of Schubert’s last sonata. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But five years after Reiner's sonata, the 25-year-old Pierre Boulez wrote a phenomenally inventive Second Piano Sonata that conveys a level of violence suitable for expressing the newness of the Holocaust's unspeakable horror. 'Recovered Voices' initiative studies grim history of Nazi censorship 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z From these experiments in compressed memories, Khan went on to tackle iconic photographic works – including books by theorists Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes – to high culture's greatest hits, such as Beethoven's sonatas and Rembrandt's self-portraits. Artist of the week 80: Idris Khan 2010-03-25T13:25:00Z When Jarrett found out that the violinist had not recorded the sonatas, he suggested making a recording, which took place in November 2010 in New York. Jazz Pianist Jarrett Goes Classical with Bach CD 2013-10-18T14:22:45Z The music — Jewish prayers, African hymns, Greek folk songs, a Bach violin sonata — is dreamy and grave. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z You don't expect the show to be stolen by a cello sonata. SSO cellist Efe Baltacigil shines in chamber-music fest 2012-07-18T23:47:07Z Mr. Trifonov will play a Mozart fantasy for piano; the duo performs a Mozart violin sonata. A Young Star And a Master 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z Recording Haydn’s sonatas, in other words, is not entirely like recording Beethoven’s, even after a decision has been taken as to how to make enjoyable, coherent programs out of them. After 13 Years, a Zesty Haydn Survey Makes Its Mark 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Her reading of the Chopin sonata was telling. Music Review: Lola Astanova in Horowitz Tribute at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-21T00:44:23Z Eight years ago, a young pianist made his New York debut with a brazen program of Beethoven’s final sonatas. Review: Igor Levit Arrives at the Philharmonic, at Last 2022-05-08T04:00:00Z Performing that sonata on Friday evening at Carnegie Hall, Andras Schiff played those chords with grounded, almost admonitory, regularity, bringing the swinging motif back to earth. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z This was most problematic in Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, since Classical sonatas tend to place the pianist in a supporting role. Music Review: A Viola and a Piano in Search of Common Ground 2011-05-01T21:13:51Z Mozart and Haydn inspired Beethoven’s early sonatas, but his final works in the genre break from tradition with bold new ideas and unexpected forms and harmonic shifts. Music Review: Garrick Ohlsson Summons Stamina at Carnegie Hall 2014-02-12T22:56:52Z Even here there was no sentimentality, just a thicket of counterpoint and glistening harmonies, like a Scarlatti sonata. Review: The Whitney’s Conlon Nancarrow Festival is an Enchanting Tribute 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z In Wunder’s hands, Schubert’s farewell sonata was less a valediction than a statement of youthful defiance. Pianist Ingolf Wunder gets carried away with his fearless approach 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Like Beethoven in the late string quartets or piano sonatas, Shakespeare in “The Winter’s Tale” — play No. 36 out of 39, give or take — no longer observes the lane lines. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The program that Paul Lewis presented on Thursday at the 92nd Street Y may seem unadventurous at first: a Haydn sonata, three late Brahms intermezzos and Beethoven’s “Diabelli” Variations. Two Pianists Offer Contrasting Paths of Exploration 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z There was no hesitancy to Ms. Hristova’s and Ms. Jokubaviciute’s passionate performance of this engaging and rhythmically eclectic sonata, which incorporates frequent meter changes. Music Review: Showcase for Bella Hristova at Merkin Concert Hall 2010-04-22T21:19:00Z Rather than offer companionship to Beethoven's sonatas, he changes the context of their surroundings. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z And the more rhapsodic cello sonata, with its occasional hints that Ireland had perhaps heard Debussy's Cello Sonata by the time he composed it, has a strikingly explosive finale. Ireland: Violin Sonatas Nos 1 & 2; Cello Sonata 2010-08-19T22:15:00Z What does he do, for instance, in his late piano sonatas? Beethoven the Avant-Gardist: A Pianist Makes His Case 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z But if the six violin sonatas and partitas are to be performed complete, it is vital to perform them in the sequence Bach specified, Ms. Koh said, calling the set “an incredible musical arc.” Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z Schubert’s last sonata, D. 960, finished weeks before his death, does indeed seem to be gazing down into the abyss. A venerated pianist puts sonatas on a pedestal at Strathmore 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z This music — at least the large-scale sonatas and fantasias that begin and end the recording — demand attentive listening. An All-but-Extinct Piano Plays Once More 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Lewis went directly from this into the mysteriously placid opening of the sonata, with its theme that unfolds through eerily long-held chords. Music Review: Beethoven Devotee Makes Some Keyboard Time for Schubert 2011-05-01T22:22:48Z Kocsis’s arrangement ends in shadows, out of which Levit’s Liszt emerged; a rough contemporary to “Tristan,” the sonata was here a stand-in for the opera. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But it is the Schubert sonata and Janáček's In the Mists before it that really reveal her playing to be something special. Jan??ek: In the Mists; Schubert: Piano Sonata in A minor D 784; Liszt: Petrarch Sonnets; etc ? review 2011-01-06T22:10:00Z Completed in 1720, his set of three sonatas and three partitas are among the most intellectually and emotionally enriching works ever composed. This sound did not need a film dimension 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z And Beethoven’s late sonatas require a heftier instrument than the kind Haydn first encountered. In a Forest of Instruments, Signs of Evolution 2010-09-03T17:20:00Z Mark Bennett was a fine soloist in a Biber sonata for trumpet and strings, otherwise uneventful. Music Review: Andreas Scholl and the English Concert - Review 2011-10-25T20:36:28Z Williams is immersed in recording Beethoven’s 32 sonatas, as well as performing the complete cycle live at London’s Wigmore Hall. Welsh pianist’s infallible technique, calm authority hold the audience 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z The scintillating account of the feisty Beethoven sonata that opened the program was also especially enjoyable. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Ms. Joy and Mr. Dutilleux were married the year he finished the sonata and remained together until her death in 2009. Henri Dutilleux, Modernist Composer, Dies at 97 2013-05-23T04:14:08Z Each sonata demands more space around it than such programming allows. Steven Osborne ? review 2011-04-10T21:45:01Z No matter how short a movement, there is always a sonata form in it. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z In that sonata's slow movement, he stopped time. Igor Levit, the best Russian pianist you haven't heard...yet 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Those qualities characterised the two sonatas in the first half of his programme, Mozart's D major work K284, and the earliest of the three in A minor that Schubert produced, D537. Francesco Piemontesi – review 2012-11-08T17:26:49Z Bacewicz and Barraqué, on the other other hand, were not in the business of making a splash but making, through formidable sonatas, a difference. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z “Spieglein,” another premiere by Mr. Magloire, a solo for Victoria North to a Handel violin sonata, was rather too stagey in its evocation of a woman surrounded by reflections of herself. Dance Review: Miro Magloire and His New Chamber Ballet at City Center 2012-02-13T22:39:23Z The high point was a bombastic rendition of the first opus of Johannes Brahms, one of the early piano sonatas that many pianists avoid in favor of the composer’s later variations and character pieces. Pianist Christopher Taylor cranks the bombast dial a little too high 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet the sonata also bears a tenuous link to Scelsi’s later fascination with the implications of single, repeated tones. Music Review: Pianist Revels in Scores That Dare the Ear 2011-01-04T21:28:00Z I strongly resist those who try to pin specific messages on, say, the late Beethoven piano sonatas. Books of The Times: Harvey Sachs?s ?Ninth: Beethoven and the World in 1824? 2010-06-17T21:09:00Z I enjoyed Mr. Kissin’s interpretation of the Haydn and Beethoven sonatas less. Music Review: Evgeny Kissin at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-08T20:57:19Z The Prokofiev sonata established the tone of the recital: tremendous virtuosity, tonal variety and sheer firepower. Jon Kimura Parker’s ‘Rite’ packed with power | Classical review 2013-05-09T17:32:36Z Last Tuesday Mr. Schiff played a program that he will perform at Carnegie Hall in October, continuing his survey of the late piano sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z If “Hanns & Rudolf” was a sonata, “The House by the Lake” is a symphony, telling the story of modern Germany with one recurring theme: history as seen from the Alexander family’s lake house outside Berlin. Vantage point 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Wedging some Debussy selections between the Beethoven sonatas, Ganz chose three selections from the first series of “Images” and the opening book of “Préludes.” Pianist Brian Ganz’s fresh take on Debussy, Beethoven The program framed the sonata orchestration with Michael Tippett’s Ritual Dances from “The Midsummer Marriage” and a colorful, high-contrast account of Elgar’s “Enigma Variations.” Enescu, an Underplayed Composer, Is Still a Star in Romania 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Lim, in her interview with The Times, said that Beethoven’s was “a revolutionary mind, and this revolutionary spirit is in each sonata.” David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z Yet, by giving Prokofiev’s Eighth such a prominent place on this program, in such a powerful, searching performance, he made the sonata seem audaciously modern. Review: Trifonov, in Risky Program, Doesn’t Fail to Thrill 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z I was especially interested in this Clementi sonata, the A major, and the big G minor, which starts almost like a Beethoven Fifth Symphony in slow motion. Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday by Not Playing Beethoven 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z That changes in the last Schubert sonatas, he continued. Classical: The Sad Beauty in Schubert’s Last Sonatas 2012-10-14T02:00:41Z Swiss pianist Olivier Cavé offered a strange program, principally sonatas of Haydn and Scarlatti — composers of genius, but too narrow a range to sustain an entire concert. Season begins with a stumble at the Phillips Collection 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In classical music, we’re hearing more and more performances of complete cycles: for instance, all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in a single day. Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Of unusual interest on the Symphony Center Presents Piano Series will be two recitals by Andras Schiff devoted to the final sonatas of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. CSO goes back to the future for 2015-16 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Two piano works by Liszt were originally planned to separate the sonatas. Music Review: Straying From the Canon With Unfamiliar Fare 2010-12-12T22:17:00Z She does, though, have a cult following, including increasingly popular marathons of her six piano sonatas — with a total running time of only an hour, but the physical and emotional demands of something much longer. Juilliard Celebrates 32 Female Composers of the 20th Century 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z To listen to the pianist Paul Lewis’s new album of late Brahms, you would think these pieces had been written just after the last sonatas of Schubert, which Lewis has recorded with wrenching restraint. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Even in his lifetime, he was pegged a traditionalist because his forms — the sonata, the symphony — are those familiar from Mozart and Haydn. Does Brahms’s Obsession With Rhythmic Instability Explain His Music’s Magic? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Dodgson's seven piano sonatas have been championed and recorded by Bernard Roberts, and his eight string quartets likewise by the Tippett String Quartet. Stephen Dodgson obituary 2013-04-15T15:52:17Z These works also bring out new darkness in Copland’s sonata, which Mr. Tao said he views as a work “of rage and reflection and resignation.” Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z If you look at his piano sonatas, in that first one in F Minor, the hands are very close together and the physical choreographies of the left and right hands are not that dissimilar. I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music 2020-12-27T05:00:00Z Starting in 2005 he performed the 32 Beethoven piano sonatas in a series of recitals in Europe and America. Recordings: Mixing Urgency and Relaxation 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z This winter, among other things, he’ll be accompanying “Sonatine,” a pas de deux by George Balanchine set to a dreamy piano sonata by Ravel, the musical equivalent of a watercolor by Pissarro. Finding the Keys for the Right Ballet Steps 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The Romantic movement emerged from the Classical heritage, in which composers expressed themselves through large, formal structures: symphony, sonata, string quartet, concerto. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z Among their recordings are Beethoven's violin sonatas and Dvorak's complete piano trios. Raymond Cohen obituary 2011-03-22T18:23:06Z The sexual energy between them is strange and unsettling, like a theremin sonata only they can hear. Review: The Force Awakens Is Everything You Could Hope For in a Star Wars Movie—And Less 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z A performance of a sonata by Biber, the Baroque weirdo, must be heard to be believed. Patricia Kopatchinskaja shows her astonishing artistry on 'Take Two' and 'Chiaroscuro' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z By late summer Serkin had scaled the series back to four programs, proposing to offer about half of the sonatas. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z At the end of the corridor, where the rooms have upright pianos, a thin lad, Arson Fahim, 14, played a Mozart sonata. Afghanistan National Institute of Music Students to Tour U.S. 2013-02-01T21:18:01Z In the sonata’s middle section, the B-flat recedes as chaos dominates. Review: A Pianist’s Modern Vision of Conflict and Persistence 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z A Beethoven sonata that ends in a suite of variations led into the premiere of a new set of variations by Fred Hersch. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z Her cycle of the 10 Beethoven violin sonatas with pianist Shai Wosner incorporates a new work written for each of the four programs. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z On Friday and Sunday, there’s a smattering of sonatas, trios and more, by composers as varied as C.P.E. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Schiff, 61, waited until he was 50 to play this sonata, he said. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z Written in 2015, the sonata moves from a pleasant prelude to a dark middle section called “Lament” to an exultant finale. Washington Ballet concludes its virtual season with a breath of fresh air, captured on film 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z The whirlwind triplets in the first movement of the D. 850 sonata, and the rapid double thirds in the D. 894 finale were impeccable. Schubert’s final sonatas given impressive rendering by Israeli pianist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z It has an opening in sonata form, with a first subject, a second subject, a development section, a recapitulation and a cadenza. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Late in his life, while battling rectal cancer, Debussy began a series of six sonatas for various instruments, starting with the Sonata for Cello and Piano in 1915. Review: Nicolas Altstaedt and Alexander Lonquich, in a Stirring Concert at the Frick 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Deep in the second movement of Beethoven’s last piano sonata there’s a passage that’s become known as the boogie-woogie variation. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Here he offered the last sonatas of each. The Verbier Festival Revels in Mixing It Up 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The warming up was progressive, continuing through Fauré's ingratiatingly tuneful sonata. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Weber had reluctantly accepted the commission; the publisher initially rejected the sonatas on the grounds they “ought to be much duller.” ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Pavarotti, Berio, Shostakovich and More 2014-05-08T14:57:26Z Throughout that sprawling sonata Mr. Schiff didn’t shy from personal touches: a note held longingly beyond its written value, an aggressive edge to a repetition of the theme in the Scherzo. Review: Andras Schiff Deconstructs Sonatas 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z Nicolas Slonimsky, the historian and composer to whom Varèse dedicated “Ionisation,” showed that the piece adhered to conventional sonata form, with two principal themes, contrasting subjects and sections of development and recapitulation. Into The Music: The Clout of Edgard Var?se?s ?Ionisation? 2010-07-16T14:55:00Z He’ll be back on the barge, June 24 and 25, with more Bach: the sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Bach’s Cello Suites, Now on Violin, With a Folksy Feel 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z His early sonatas were inspired by Mozart and Haydn, but his final works in the genre break from tradition with a bold synthesis of Baroque idioms and revolutionary forms and ideas. Music Review: Tackling the Last of Beethoven?s Sonatas 2010-10-18T22:00:00Z Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words” were simple favorites, but it was Beethoven’s piano sonatas that were most dear to her. Sleepless Nights with András Schiff and Beethoven’s Sonatas 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Similarly, the power and ferocity of the Second Piano Sonata comes in part from the way the piece warps, destroys, reforms and rebuilds conventions such as sonata form and fugue. A guide to Pierre Boulez's music 2012-07-16T15:49:00Z In the slow opening movements of the G-minor sonata and B-minor partita, Hahn’s phrasing felt more relaxed and elastic, with a quieter, introspective quality. Review | Hilary Hahn shows mature artistry with Bach violin solos 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z Dissonances creep in, but nothing too troubling, especially in a passage of serene chords that’s the prettiest part of the sonata. Review: Philip Glass, at 82, Unveils His First Piano Sonata 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Some of the variations even take on the intensity and drama of little sonatas; how extreme she makes the contrasts of the 13th, and how inevitable her resolution of them feels. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Moonlight had always been gentle, or flattering, or soft; it was the stuff of sonatas and serenades. David Bowie in the Movies 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The Schubert Sonata in G represents the final step toward the three great sonatas of the composer’s last year. Review: Inon Barnatan Soldiers Through Hallowed Works at 92nd Street Y 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Brahms's testosterone charged the early E flat minor Scherzo, then set things up for the rigours of his five-movement sonata in F minor. Angela Hewitt 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z In the more outright melodic “Spring” sonata, individual details took on new meaning, like the placid measured trill that brought the slow movement to a gently reluctant close. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z Where thundering chords denoting burning hatred and the throes of spiritual despair are indicated, we hear instead the thinner textures of a piano sonata, albeit one liberally laced with dissonance. Theater Review: ‘The Dance of Death’ by August Strindberg 2013-04-19T21:15:39Z But music like the sonatas has nothing to do with politics; it’s totally apolitical music. She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z But she is far from neglecting the classical repertoire; last week she was at the Salzburg festival playing Beethoven sonatas. Viktoria Mullova: from Russia in a blond wig 2011-08-16T21:30:00Z Perlman began with a Mozart sonata; both violinists ended with a selection of bonbons. Itzhak Perlman revisits moments of early greatness with pianist Emanuel Ax 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Geniusas took risks with the fast tempos of Prokofiev’s second piano sonata, making the Scherzo an exercise in anxiety. Russian pianist quarrels, attacks and fox trots in spectacular debut at the Phillips 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Kenney seems to view — and, more impressively, convey — the sonatas and partitas not at the level of measures or phrases, but entire movements. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The three short transitional movements start where one Beethoven sonata ends and transform that cadence into something that leads to the opening music of the next sonata. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z His playing is notable for its clarity of texture and for its momentum, particularly in vast sonatas that can sound meandering in less capable hands. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z Having a recorded Beethoven sonata cycle to your credit at 24 is quite an accomplishment. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z This Saturday at Alice Tully Hall, Mr. Lewis will play Beethoven’s final piano sonatas, some of which were composed after a bout of serious illness. Attack of the Seagulls? Nope. Appendicitis Felled Pianist. 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z But to its credit, the sonata is less jokey — and thus more secure — when dealing with its layered source materials. A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z At trial, Led Zeppelin’s lawyers cited a 17th-century guitar sonata that, at one spot, sounds an awful lot like “Stairway to Heaven.” When Songs Sound Similar, Courts Look for Musical DNA 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z What's stellar is the chamber music: many of the sonatas, including those by Debussy and Franck, as well as the Brahms Horn Trio and Ravel's piano trio. Rethinking Itzhak Perlman on the eve of his 70th birthday 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z The sonata, divided into three movements, opens with fanciful flights in both instruments, pointillist figurations in the piano underlying the soaring violin melodies played with brio by Ms. Cuckson. Review: Pairing Beethoven With George Walker at Mannes College 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z His large output of recordings ranged from the unaccompanied sonatas and partitas of JS Bach to the two concertos by Belá Bartók and that by Alban Berg. Josef Suk obituary 2011-07-08T19:20:03Z And in recital programs, he will continue to take risks, like his remarkably ambitious Carnegie Hall program last season, which included Beethoven’s final sonata and Liszt transcriptions, as well as all of his “Transcendental Études.” Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z “But Bartók’s gripping, experimental, unsettled sonata became the vehicle where both players found themselves by losing themselves.” Essential Arts & Culture: A buoyant 'Zoot Suit,' Moholy-Nagy at LACMA, and the power of composer Thomas Adès 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z Even before it became the “Moonlight,” however, the sonata was a hit; the dreamy first movement was played so often that Beethoven grew tired of it. The Woman at the Heart of Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ Sonata 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z It was packed with oddities and surprises, most notably three sonatas by Dario Castello, a remarkably inventive but virtually unknown composer who flourished in Venice during the first half of the 17th century. ArtsBeat: Early Music Festival: Quicksilver at Night 2011-06-17T14:20:15Z They maintained a deadpan cool for much of the second movement of the A minor sonata, where the musical material is simple to the point of being obtuse. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z A compensating lyricism sings through the quieter sonatas and Tharaud's attention to musical detail is, as ever, combined with total spontaneity. Scarlatti: Sonatas, Alexandre Tharaud ? review 2011-01-30T00:05:50Z His hope, in putting together a program of selections from Bach’s sonatas and partitas alongside contemporary works, was that “a kinship between them will emerge,” he wrote. Review: A Violinist Connects the Dots From Bach to the Present 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z We’re sometimes led to think that musical masterpieces of the past fit partly into molds: sonata form, symphony, concerto. Wachner, Washington Chorus give powerful performance of ungainly ‘Missa Solemnis’ Any pianist embarking on a cycle of the complete Beethoven sonatas must start by deciding how to arrange the programmes. András Schiff – review 2012-11-21T19:21:09Z But the second sonata — with which Mr. Boulez wanted to destroy the traditional sonata form — represents the composer at his most formidable. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Piano at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-08-24T21:20:26Z And the Adagio harpsichord introduction to a sonata in C minor showed off Christie’s magic touch, his phrasing noble yet gentle. Les Arts Florissants Returns to New York, Endangered 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z By 14 she knew the whole of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier” and all 32 sonatas. Yvonne Loriod, Pianist and Messiaen Muse, Dies at 86 2010-05-19T01:01:00Z His importance is obvious, but precisely because his output was so enormous, including 104 symphonies, 62 piano sonatas and 45 piano trios, we rarely hear more than a repetitive sliver of it. Review: Attacca Quartet Continues Its Haydn Project 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z That matched my own experience at Lincoln Center in 2014, a program which began with a rendition of a Vivaldi sonata that was almost obtusely old-fashioned and stodgy. Itzhak Perlman, Violin Legend, Still Proves the Critics Wrong 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z The first Beethoven sonata I learned as a young pianist was the dramatic “Pathétique.” Glenn Gould’s Every Detail. But Why? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Will you play her other sonatas in concert? She Wrote for the Piano’s Extremes: Bronfman on Ustvolskaya 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Bach wrote the three sonatas and three partitas, which were probably never performed in public during his lifetime, over a span of some 17 years in the early 18th century. Into the Music: Jennifer Koh to Play Bach?s Partitas and Sonatas 2011-10-23T03:39:15Z The point was twofold: to illuminate some of the sources Ives quoted in his sonatas and to show the kind of joyfully unkempt community music-making from which Ives took inspiration. Music Review: The Violinist Hilary Hahn at the Stone - Review 2011-10-12T21:22:30Z Among the instrumental music, Harnoncourt goes back to his beginnings as a string player in the Cello Suites and the sonatas for viola da gamba, while Thomas Zehetmair plays the solo-violin works. The Complete Bach Edition on USB – review 2013-04-17T15:30:21Z Harrison's sonatas, which filter the Baroque through a lyrical 1930s experimentalism, are early examples of what became a multicultural West Coast sound. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Bohuslav Martinů’s first cello sonata, also in D minor, felt like a twin for the Shostakovich piece, driven to a fast and furious ending in the parallel major. Review | Steven Isserlis keeps the music modern and strings old-fashioned in Library of Congress concert 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z To present Beethoven as a model for adventurous composers today, they are performing Beethoven violin sonatas along with newly commissioned scores. Classical Music & Opera Listings for Dec. 4-10 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z These last sonatas are no more and no less than last thoughts on sonatas. Pianist Andras Schiff mesmerizes with last sonatas of 4 composers 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The piece concludes with a fugue, which made it a fine complement to the centerpiece of the program, Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata, No. 31 in A-flat, Op. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection I feel surprisingly alert, and my mood is much improved by a Haydn piano sonata on Radio 3. Therapy lamps tested: ‘The optical equivalent of freezing cold shower' 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z He returns to the penthouse this year with an earlier Schubert sonata and Brahms’s four pensive Op. Toward a More Perfect Lincoln Center Union 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Osborne plays the Moonlight, Pathétique and Waldstein sonatas here, together with the little G major work, Op 79, and even in such well traversed musical territory he regularly finds something new and interesting to say. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp 13, 27 no 2, 53 & 79 2010-05-20T21:10:00Z But wasn’t he tempted to put words aside now and then, and just compose, say, a piano sonata? Stephen Sondheim, as Great a Composer as He Was a Lyricist 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z It was only when Liszt, partly out of showmanship, began playing everything, including monumental Beethoven sonatas, from memory that the mystique took hold. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z Each sonata unfurled with improvisatory freedom, absolutely alive, its heart showing more than its head. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z The latest addition to Nikolai Lugansky's Rachmaninov discography is this recording of the two sonatas – big, exacting works, not without controversy. Rachmaninov: Piano Sonatas 1 & 2 – review 2012-10-11T21:23:01Z At the end, the women, seated in chairs, cross their legs and run their hands through their hair as part of a Mozart piano sonata plays. ‘Elena’s Aria,’ Early Work by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z The oddities of this engrossing 1788 sonata are masked by its deceptively jolly surface. Music Review: Jeremy Denk Performs in Peoples’ Symphony Series 2014-04-13T19:23:23Z Bartók, who pursued a dual career as a virtuoso pianist, himself juxtaposed his own music with the Debussy sonata in a legendary recording with the violinist Joseph Szigeti. Superstar duo Yuja Wang, Leonidas Kavakos have a meaty program in store for Seattle fans 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z It's little over a month since Maurizio Pollini played the last three Schubert piano sonatas in a single evening at the Festival Hall. Steven Osborne ? review 2011-04-10T21:45:01Z I understood Mendelssohn more readily than, say, Leonard Bernstein, who, teaching us sonata form on television, seemed human pretty much everywhere. Leonard Cohen's Montreal 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z The sonata segues into a perky toccata-like finale, though it ends quizzically, with a questioning coda. Review: A Tiny Garage Explodes in Pianistic Madness 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Li’s impressive technique served him well in Beethoven’s “Appassionata” sonata, which concluded the first half of the program. Music Review: George Li, Pianist at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-11-02T22:39:01Z Pi-Hsien Chen interleaves the four books of the Music of Changes with nine of Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas, which she plays mostly in pairs. Cage: Music of Changes; Scarlatti: Sonatas – review 2013-02-28T22:40:01Z Mr. Hamelin, even given his age, experience and prodigious gifts, is still waiting to record staples like the late Beethoven sonatas. King of Virtuosos Is Weary Of His Crown 2011-07-22T15:32:31Z Hearing Christian Tetzlaff play Bach’s sonatas and partitas for unaccompanied violin, some of the most intellectually stimulating and emotionally fulfilling music ever written, on Thursday evening, I kept thinking of a child’s coloring book. From Christian Tetzlaff, Violin Sonatas and Partitas 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The piece — like the Beethoven sonata, a study in contrasting moods — evokes Schumann’s struggle to marry Clara Wieck over her father’s objections. Music Review: Intense Communication, via the Piano 2011-02-14T04:43:16Z Yale houses millions of images in its archives, museum and libraries, from a sonata written by the hand of Mozart to a watercolor by William Blake. ArtsBeat: Yale Opens Its Image Vault Online for Free 2011-05-12T16:24:41Z They highlight Beethoven’s virtuosity as a keyboard player — the early models showing the influence of Mozart, the later sonatas breaking new ground. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace in Beethoven Violin Sonatas 2014-03-03T22:56:20Z Ms. Lack was still a teenager when she began embarking on worldwide tours, drawing praise for her intensity and warmth of tone in concertos and sonatas by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Haydn and others. Fredell Lack, Admired Violinist and Teacher, Dies at 95 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The veiled mystery of the opening arpeggiated chords was wonderfully poised; and his understanding of the composer's revolutionary use of the sustaining pedal was revealed brilliantly in the finale of the Waldstein sonata, Op 54. Llyr Williams 2010-07-19T21:31:00Z In her notes she includes the sonata under the heading “Eternal Feminine,” the phrase coined by Goethe in “Faust.” Music Review: H J Lim Performs Piano Sonatas at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-05-21T04:01:15Z He plays the fifth and ninth piano sonatas, and is joined by the violinist Guy Braunstein, formerly concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, for two violin sonatas. Classical Music Listings for March 4-10 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z In four sonatas taken from across the composer’s life, there is never a note of hurry or haste, and nothing that fails to enchant. The Best Classical Music Recordings of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Schroeder plays all six piano sonatas, uninterrupted, as well as the 12 preludes. 7 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Wosner took up Schubert’s sonatas only about 10 years ago. Schubert’s Sonatas, and a Pianist, Come Into Their Own 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Time was when Beethoven’s last three sonatas were the province of only a few pianists, and generally performed by them only in maturity. Aiming for a musical summit but falling short 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z Here he plays two sonatas by Haydn; Beethoven’s earlier set of Bagatelles, Op. 8 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z I think the single word "Sempre" in the cello sonata's finale may just be an editor's mistake, or perhaps Debussy's own mistake. Listen to Britain 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z This set a tone of concentrated listening that Mr. Wosner sustained beautifully throughout the sonata itself. Shai Wosner and the Parker Quartet at the 92nd Street Y 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Beck’s warm, energetic reading of Mr. Carter’s early sonata tied the evening’s works together in a curious way. Music Review: Steven Beck at Bargemusic in Here and Now Series - Review 2012-01-06T22:54:07Z He followed the Haydn with Brahms’ Sonata No. 3 in F Minor, the last piano sonata Brahms wrote, at the age of 20. Yefim Bronfman: Flying fingers and heartfelt Prokofiev | Classical review 2012-12-11T19:02:01Z Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven crash the symposium, looking for Rosen, in an extended comic ensemble written, cleverly, in the form of a sonata. 'The Classical Style,' an Opera Buffa at Zankel Hall 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z He has already shown precocious mastery in the solo canon, like Bach’s sonatas and partitas. For Classical Music, Spring Was the Season of Solos 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Though it was not on the album, that great sonata captured perfectly its themes of light and dark. Music in Review: Inon Barnatan at 92nd Street Y 2012-12-09T23:09:05Z As this sonata made clear, his music combined Jewish musical idioms with avant-garde style in the manner of Bartok. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z His 2018 collection of the violin sonatas and partitas was revelatory in its unpretentious lightness and dancing energy. When Coronavirus Cancels Concerts, Critics Put on Headphones 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z She played the Beethoven cycle in 2010 over eight consecutive days in Paris, and last year she recorded the sonatas for her debut release on EMI Classics. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z Two composers, one French and one Polish, wrote piano sonatas in 1952 and 1953 that were explosive statements of their times. Piano sonatas at Monday Evening Concerts and Piano Spheres reveal futuristic visions 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Still, Sunday’s traversal of the final three sonatas will cap a major event of the season. Schubert’s final sonatas given impressive rendering by Israeli pianist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z Hahn’s recital, featuring Bach’s first sonata and the first and second partitas, was an exhibition of state-of-the-art violin performance. Review | Hilary Hahn shows mature artistry with Bach violin solos 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z They engage in poetically disjointed choreography, set to music that ranges from Bach violin sonatas to swinging orchestrations of “Volare.” Movie Review: Spalding Gray on Video in ‘Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road’ 2014-04-30T21:34:06Z But Mr. Boulez’s sonata undoubtedly presents fiendish challenges for both performer and listener. Music Review: Taka Kigawa Plays Piano at Le Poisson Rouge - Review 2011-08-24T21:20:26Z But this is also a lucid, intricately detailed and exhilarating performance of Beethoven’s labyrinthine and difficult sonata. Box Sets Highlight Leonard Shure and Howard Karp 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z I played the whole sonata on a recital program the next year, along with shorter works by MacDowell, Bartok and Schumann, ending with a sloppy but rhapsodic performance of Chopin’s Second Scherzo. A Critic’s Ode to a Childhood Joy in Classical Music 2013-07-17T16:12:32Z Mr. Greilsammer, who also plays standard fare like the complete Mozart piano concertos and sonatas splendidly, is hardly asserting that all recital programs should follow this model. Review: Searching for a Path Out of a Musical Labyrinth 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Amid sprays of white roses and flickering candles, a violin duo played Mozart’s Vienna sonatas. In Berlin, Unraveling a Family Mystery 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z Lill’s Seattle performance is situated between two phases of an ambitious project to perform all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, England. John Lill to perform Beethoven, more at Benaroya April 30 2014-04-24T20:45:08Z It’s almost like two different sonatas, but it’s not. Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z His recordings include the complete sonatas for cello and piano of Beethoven and Brahms. Paul Olefsky, a Cellist and Educator, Dies at 87 2013-06-07T03:43:28Z In a suite of eight solos for five unflagging dancers, to Bach’s sonatas and partitas for solo violin, Mr. Léveillé exploits gravity for the full force of its downward pull. Daniel Léveillé’s ‘Solitudes Solo’ at Abrons Arts Center 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z The sonatas were, in her reading at the time, intimate, private musings that were made public but didn’t seem as if they needed to be. Review: Mitsuko Uchida Revisits Beethoven’s Final Sonatas 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Listen to his recording of the opening of the Hammerklavier Sonata, with its unstoppable energy, or the supernatural radiance he finds in the second movement of Beethoven's last sonata, and you'll hear what I mean. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z What do you think about the opening bars of the sonata, which are so spare compared to what follows? A Young Pianist Learns Liszt From Listening 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z “The symmetry of the evening goes out in both directions from the slow movement of the double sonata like a club sandwich,” he explained using one of his homespun metaphors. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z There were certainly gorgeous moments throughout the sonata, but they were quickly tarnished by his over-the-top flourishes. Music Review: A Lang Lang Solo Recital at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-30T21:17:22Z He brought a burnished sound and intensity to Ysaÿe’s dear slot: Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 “Ballade,” written — like all his violin sonatas — for a close musician friend. Music Review: Aleksey Semenenko, Young Artist Winner, at Merkin Hall 2014-02-06T23:34:15Z The two artists meshed best in the final work, Poulenc’s acid-tongued sonata, where the quirky back-and-forth dialogue and individual virtuosity carried the day. Despite the disconnect, clarinetist and pianist put on an enjoyable recital 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z “We are here and things work,” said Igor Levit, the German pianist who is performing a complete cycle of Beethoven’s 32 sonatas throughout the festival. It’s (Almost) Business as Usual at the Salzburg Festival 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z Apart from “An die ferne Geliebte,” Beethoven’s lieder are chronically overlooked next to his towering achievements in the symphony, sonata and string quartet. Review: A Recital Brings Together Two Schubert Masters 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z I play these sonatas now so often that I terribly miss playing the “Diabelli” Variations. Beethoven’s Insane Beauty, According to a Star Pianist 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z But think of the string quartets, the piano sonatas, the violin sonatas, the cello sonatas, the piano concertos. Q&A: Can’t stop, won’t stop: Famous conductor’s show goes on 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z He plans to play one of Mozart’s sonatas and a new work of his own on the historical fiddle. ArtsBeat: Mozart Never Made It to America, but His Violin and Viola Are On the Way 2013-05-29T19:38:44Z The younger Bach was especially known for his elegant, inventive keyboard works, which include some 150 sonatas. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Yet on the recordings she places the sonatas into eight thematic groups, invoking lofty philosophical titles like “Extremes in Collision,” “Eternal Feminine” and “Destiny,” an exercise that seems more academic than revolutionary. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z After hearing Liszt perform the sonata in 1836, Berlioz wrote of Liszt’s impressive fidelity to the text in a review quoted in the first volume of Mr. Walker’s biography. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z On Friday night, he will be the violinist in a Brahms sonata and a Dvorak piano trio, joining the cellist Evan Drachman and the pianist Doris Stevenson, who themselves will play Grieg’s Cello Sonata. Classical Music Listings for July 22-28 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z This week also brings the masterly pianist Mitsuko Uchida to Carnegie Hall to play Schubert’s three posthumously published and searching late sonatas. The Week Ahead: April 8 ? 14 2012-04-06T22:03:30Z So the effect is heady, not heedless, as in the opening movement of the Sonata No. 4 in E flat, a long early sonata that tends to get overlooked. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z But despite all these things, it’s basically a sonata. A Flutist Steps Into the Solo Spotlight 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Ethan Hawke's documentary on pianist Seymour Bernstein is very much like the sonatas Bernstein plays so beautifully, teaches so insightfully — quietly moving, infinitely deep. 'Seymour' is Ethan Hawke's moving look at pianist Bernstein 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Intrigued, Beethoven took up the challenge but then turned to writing his last piano sonatas. Classical Recordings: Beethoven and Haydn, Anew 2011-06-24T14:20:46Z One of the most popular piano sonatas ever written, the piece has inspired love stories over the ages. Moonlight sonata: Will the film’s Oscar nod make Hollywood legitimize gay relationships of color? 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Reubke, one of Liszt’s favorite pupils, died at 24 but left a major sonata for piano, as well as this one for organ. Almost as Much to Watch as to Hear: Mighty Organ Pieces 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The work’s operatic character is evident in the dramatic chords that begin the opening Largo and in the dialogue that unfolds afterward, with both instruments equal partners throughout the sonata. Music Review: Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at Lincoln Center - Review 2011-08-25T23:15:11Z Among the exhibits on display at the Royal Academy of Music during its centenary tribute to the violinist Yehudi Menuhin is a single page of a Bach violin sonata. When Classical Musicians Go Digital 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Heifetz had played the program, which included Richard Strauss’s E flat violin sonata, to his usual exacting standards and to thunderous applause. Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Here was a rare chance to hear all the Prokofiev sonatas in context. Music Review: Prokofiev?s Piano Sonatas From Yale in New York 2011-12-12T23:29:39Z Haydn, says Bronfman, was the first composer to write more than one movement for a sonata. Well-traveled pianist Yefim Bronfman to return to Seattle 2012-12-06T22:14:14Z "In the 19th century, for instance, sonatas were not performed by pianists," Bronfman says by phone from his New York home. Renowned pianist to play once-again-popular Prokofiev concerto with Seattle Symphony 2010-09-16T22:21:00Z We tend to think of Cage, with his absorption of eastern philosophies, as essentially spiritual, while Scarlatti's sonatas always suggest a worldly pleasure in creativity. Melvyn Tan ? review 2011-08-17T17:43:06Z Hewitt then launched both the Scherzo and sonata with the terrific attack these pieces demand. Angela Hewitt 2010-04-08T21:30:00Z Beethoven’s last sonata, which eludes pianists three times Trifonov’s age, will be tougher still. Opera and Classical Music Listings for Dec. 5-Dec.11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Listening to a humdrum rendition of a late Beethoven piano sonata is a less spiritual experience than hearing a lesser piece better rendered. White Light: Is It Driven by the Soul or by Sales? 2010-11-22T22:47:00Z After Chopin's mighty B minor sonata, Uchida's encore was the first movement of Beethoven's "Moonlight"' sonata. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z Yet Bloch was strongly attached to the expressive musical language of Jewish Eastern Europe and drew upon Yiddish musical syntax, as he did in this sonata. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z There’s another solo concert on Sunday, at 4 p.m., when the pianist Beth Levin takes on Schubert’s late A major sonata, Brahms’s Handel Variations and David Del Tredici’s “Ode to Music.” Classical Music Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Still, Martinu’s first cello sonata, written around the same time, was also a remarkable burst of energy. Review | Music by female composers uplifts the art form, in two strong concerts 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Even in this sonata, which includes nothing faster than an Allegro moderato, that was too much of a good thing. Imogen Cooper – review 2013-03-28T15:29:06Z But there is a rich discography of Beethoven sonata surveys to choose from. David Greilsammer and H J Lim, Pianists Stepping Out 2012-08-26T02:43:13Z “It’s like doing the third Boulez piano sonata — all these ’60s pieces — where you could really change the order. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The four-movement sonata, expressively performed by Ms. Artymiw and Mr. Berick, evokes Handel’s operatic style with ornamented, emotive melodies; the weeping lines of the Larghetto sounded like a trademark Handelian lament. Music Review: What Henry (Could Have) Heard: Night at the Frick 2010-10-13T21:42:00Z On Sunday, Stewart Goodyear concludes his four-concert traversal of the complete Beethoven sonatas with a recital that includes the “Tempest” and “Les Adieux” sonatas as well as the composer’s final three works in the genre. Opera & Classical Music Listings for July 25-31 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Fray offered none of those, playing instead three sonatas from across Schubert’s brief career. Review: Schubert, via David Fray, at the Park Avenue Armory 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z His recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas with the wonderful Italian pianist Enrico Pace is one of the finest introductions to the cycle. New York Times Critics on What They Want to See 2013-12-31T23:10:26Z At the start of the Grave of the second sonata his sound was at is most radiant and singing; at the end it thinned into quiet desolation. Johnny Gandelsman Performs Bach Violin Works at Bargemusic 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z She played beautifully: her touch patrician in a Beethoven sonata; dreamy in one by Shostakovich; suave in one by Frank Bridge; and alert without being anxious in one by Britten. Review: A Cellist Accompanied by His Sister. Or Vice Versa? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z Grade 10 fare includes much of Bach’s “Well-Tempered Clavier”; sonatas by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven; and varied works by 19th- and 20th-century composers. Carnegie Unveils Music Education Program 2011-03-25T23:03:39Z And as for what might be called the classical and romantic “main course” between appetizer and dessert, we were given a relatively understated Beethoven sonata and one of Stravinsky’s least prickly, least aggressively “modern” pieces. Lightness and sparkle in Joshua Bell recital 2014-02-06T18:54:54Z Alongside it the Bartók sonata seems a model of clarity and vivid originality, though this performance lacks the edge of feral energy that the finest accounts convey. Bart?k: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion; Rihm: Schrift-Um-Schrift ? review 2011-01-06T22:19:00Z Nicholas Maw wrote a sonata for her, and John Tavener made her the “Divine Eros” in his vast, mystical “Ikon of Eros,” written for the Minnesota Orchestra’s centennial in 2002. Jorja Fleezanis, Violinist and Pioneering Concertmaster, Dies at 70 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z In terms of the sonata’s spirit, he said: “I do think when people who don’t swim in the world every day hand in formal composition, they often are too serious. I’d actually rather be rambunctious.” A New Festival Freely Dips Into Jazz and Classical Music 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z An array of 14 of Scarlatti’s more than 500 sonatas was often breathtaking, but, played with barely a break between them and in the same key, they merged into a seamless muddle. Review: Konstantin Lifschitz Takes a Liberal Approach to ‘The Baroque Keyboard’ 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z At 13 she was the youngest student at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris and made her first recording, a Rachmaninov sonata, when she was only 15. Quick Hits: Helene Grimaud plays live 2011-09-10T16:01:00Z Having already set down first-rate recordings of this composer’s later sonatas, he turns here to three comparatively youthful works, for an artist who died at 31. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z The program’s two Beethoven sonatas were built from all the right blocks, but I couldn’t connect with them. Jonathan Biss Plays Beethoven at the 92nd Street Y 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z He performed here in duo with his wife, clarinettist Jean Johnson, deftly weaving around the keyboard's dodgy low notes and driving Brahms's clarinet sonatas with brooding passion and a majestic sense of space and gravitas. Concerto Caledonia/Podger; Osborne/Johnson – review 2013-06-10T13:07:34Z The sonatas of Scarlatti, an Italian master of the early 18th century, are relative miniatures, generally only a few minutes each, in single movements of two parts. He Was a ‘Bad Boy’ Harpsichordist, and the Best of His Age 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z One moment you’re in a clarinet sonata; in the next, a sparkling impromptu cutting through an orchestra. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z This is, after all, an artist who subtitled his sonata’s fast middle movement “12 CV; 8 cyl; 5,000 revs,” after a motorcar’s capabilities. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z In their brilliant, irresistible new recording the sonatas sound warm and spiky, daring and satisfying, infusing the hymns, songs and dances of American history with bold harmonies and rhythms. Classical Recordings: ?Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano? ? Review 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z Furthermore, these five cello sonatas fit tightly on a two-hour concert program, providing a concise overview of Beethoven’s three compositional periods. Cellist Antonio Lysy and fortepianist Tom Beghin try to capture real Beethoven 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z An impossible challenge: Choose a single track from the dozens in Robert Levin’s tirelessly lively, eloquent collection of Mozart’s piano sonatas, recorded on their composer’s own fortepiano. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z In this work, you hear a young composer determined to simultaneously honor and upend the Viennese Classical sonata heritage. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz in Exciting, if Blaring, Form 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z Shapero, Fine’s good friend and sometime rival, was a fellow Neo-Classicist whose Symphony for Classical Orchestra and piano sonatas are landmark works rarely heard today. Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It was decided to balance this revolutionary work with less monumental pieces: lighthearted variations, lieder and an earlier sonata. Music Review: Beethoven Elegant and Beethoven Frenetic 2011-06-07T21:43:37Z The Bach sonata represented a mix of performance styles. Music Review: Bach and Polyphonies Minifestival at Lincoln Center 2010-08-15T21:47:00Z In the final instalment of a series comprising all of Mozart's piano sonatas, Christian Blackshaw performed four examples. Christian Blackshaw – review 2013-01-07T18:23:54Z Having just completed the sonata cycle at his Perth Concert Hall series, he returned to Cardiff for this performance of the last great triptych, formed by Op 109, 110 and 111. Ll?r Williams ? review 2010-12-15T23:00:01Z When I was growing up, there was a mythology about the sonata, as if it was this almost unplayable piece. Garrick Ohlsson, Chopin Expert, Sets His Sights on Liszt 2012-01-13T16:22:33Z His complete Beethoven sonatas, recorded when he was 20, caused a sensation. A Blacksmith?s Touch Makes Music Light 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z “If I’m coming to play a sonata, they’ll call me a classical cellist,” he said. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z The hall was nearly full for an evening that included only one of the popular sonatas with titles attached, the “Appassionata.” Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes at Carnegie Hall, Part of a 19-City Tour 2014-03-20T23:37:04Z Sheku, what appeals to you about Frank Bridge’s sonata, which is a rarity compared even to the Britten and Shostakovich? A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z To my ears, the three sonatas written for flute and continuo sound odd without a cello as part of that continuo. Bach: Flute Sonatas – review 2013-02-14T21:15:01Z Each of the sonatas is echt-Argerich: totally unpredictable from note to note, they fly like the most charming, sensual kite imaginable, ecstatically free and yet still earthed. Classical Playlist: Steve Reich, Mendelssohn, Bach and More 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In between, Ms. Koh and Mr. Wosner played “Elective Memory,” a duo in three movements, lasting about 18 minutes, written as a response to that final Beethoven violin sonata. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Yet when Cooper finally reached the sonata, it proved a disappointment. Imogen Cooper – review 2013-03-28T15:29:06Z Of course, that hasn’t stopped Carnegie from bringing Beethoven back to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his birth, with about a fifth of its season devoted to the sonatas, quartets and concertos. This Is How to Do a Beethoven Symphony Cycle 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z But in larger themes as well, most especially during the double sonata, which includes a long duet for two men, with other members of the all-male ensemble weaving in and out. Does Mozart Defy the Limits of Dance? Mark Morris Begs to Differ. 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The sonata was split in terms of when it was composed, the first movement from before World War I and the second from toward the end of the war. A Sister and Brother Choose Repertoire by Feeling and Listening 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z “To me . . . it’s not about getting somebody to hear, say, Schubert’s last piano sonata or Schubert’s ‘Cello Quintet,’ ” says Yoo. Perspective | ‘Now Hear This’ modeled itself after cooking shows. It found millions of viewers with an appetite for classical music. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z It was my teacher, however, who wanted me to have a go at Handel's flute sonatas and made me realise that he was more than the composer of a few greatest hits. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z The contestants spend three weeks playing technically demanding Chopin works, from studies and preludes to large forms like the sonatas and, finally, concertos, performed on stage. Jury to choose winner of prestigious piano contest 2010-10-20T16:22:00Z Only a Mozart sonata, the K. 576 in D, left me unconvinced, its hardness of edge more appropriate to the Haydn heard as a captivating encore. Marc-André Hamelin Performs Variations on Paganini 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Interspersed were sonatas by Bach’s contemporary Domenico Scarlatti, who spent most of his creative life attached to the courts of Portugal and Spain. Young harpsichordist continues to amaze 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Schumann, like Brahms, was inspired by the Hungarian violin virtuoso Joseph Joachim, especially while writing this grand sonata of turbulent contrasts and lyrical interludes. Music Review: Violin and Piano, in an Evening?s Conversation 2011-05-06T21:51:12Z Having released a recording of Mozart’s complete piano sonatas in the fall, Fujita began his recital with two pieces by that composer. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z It was a little sonata in E minor; it’s three movements, very compact, about seven or eight minutes. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Plenty of other pianists have played Beethoven’s last three piano sonatas in one sitting, but Kigawa will play his last five, an expansion that means the evening will also include the massive “Hammerklavier.” 5 Classical Music Concerts to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Below the bittersweet, undulant surface of this music, as Mr. Levit reveals, Beethoven compresses an expansive sonata structure into less than four and a half minutes. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z You might think this would make her a Beethoven specialist; but she has not performed many of the 32 sonatas, though they are staples of the piano repertory. Martha Argerich is a legend of the classical music world. But she doesn’t act like one. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z And yet Beethoven also touches mystical sublimity, as in the final minutes of the last sonata. Playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas Changed How I Hear Them 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Leonard Bernstein, who was a classmate, composed a violin sonata for him in 1939. Raphael Hillyer, Founding Violist of Juilliard Quartet, Dies at 96 2011-01-05T23:52:01Z Her performance of a violin sonata written by the Hungarian composer Bartok as he was battling leukaemia was accompanied by a haunting Quay Brothers film representing his restless reverie. Dizzying heights 2011-07-25T07:48:08Z In comparison with the Rachmaninoff sonata, even the most elusively Impressionist passages of these pieces sounded utterly lucid. Music Review: Hungarian Tradition, African Lilt 2011-05-27T23:00:24Z Then Mr. Hinterhäuser was simply astonishing in an unbroken hour of Ustvolskaya’s six piano sonatas, from the gentle loneliness of the first to the thunderous full-forearm cluster chords of the last. A Quirky Violinist and a Festival to Match 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z At 18 and 19, Menuhin was the first to record Bach’s complete solo violin sonatas and partitas, not then well known. 'The Menuhin Century' is now: Why the violin master is still the sound of hope and peace 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z Bond chose several Baroque sonatas and songs by Henry Purcell, and created six sections corresponding to different facets of femaleness, such as the Madonna, the mother, the poet, the muse. Perspective | When world-class dancers leap into a new role: Choreographing world premieres 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z She ended with a rigorous account of the Beethoven work, the last of the composer’s 32 sonatas. Music Review: Simone Dinnerstein Gives New Twists to Classics 2014-01-24T20:42:00Z Goodwill Hunt in G: Five hipsters compete for the biggest thrift store deal to the hypnotic backing of a piano sonata. Style Invitational: Make some bad choices — ‘questions for terrible people’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z That yearning quality is also in Ms. Pite’s “Solo Echo,” inspired by Mark Strand’s poem “Lines for Winter” and two Brahms sonatas. Review: Ballet BC Touches All the Bases, but One Yearns for More 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Beethoven sonatas are too often played for exams and competitions. | H J Lim: H J Lim, Classical Pianist and YouTube Phenomenon 2012-06-29T20:48:45Z His aim in Tuesday’s program was clear: to play three Mozart sonatas in such a way that they plausibly anticipated Chopin’s four Ballades, which followed intermission. From Lang Lang, a Technicolor Take on Mozart 2014-02-05T05:00:26Z He seemed to channel the rage and grief of multitudes into his magnificently communicative playing in this concert, the first of three this season featuring Prokofiev’s nine piano sonatas in chronological order. Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Prokofiev at Carnegie, Channeling Rage and Grief 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z His repertory next season will include Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition,” late works by Liszt and a sonata by the obscure Julius Reubke, a pupil of Liszt’s. Classical: The Sad Beauty in Schubert’s Last Sonatas 2012-10-14T02:00:41Z I know all Leonidas’s repertoire, but especially his Beethoven concerto and all the sonatas. Unsuk Chin on the Violin Concerto She Swore She’d Never Write 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Bezuidenhout steers a wonderful, measured course through both works, but allows himself a bit of freedom in the two sonatas. Mozart: Sonatas K330 and K457; A minor Rondo K511; B minor Adagio K540; etc ? review 2011-01-20T21:59:00Z "When I started hearing the actual concert works for the saxophone - various sonatas and concertos - by some of our top figures, I was really taken by that." Classical Saxophone in Proms spotlight 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Liszt was a champion of knotty works that mystified the public: not only music by contemporaries but also older scores, like the late Beethoven and Schubert piano sonatas. Critic?s Notebook: A Renaissance Man Before the Renaissance 2011-08-23T12:00:00Z Schubert knew he was dying when, in 1828, he wrote his final three piano sonatas. Review: The Pacifica Quartet Interprets Composers’ ‘Last Words’ 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z It is a Mozart sonata, not a concerto. Review: Choreographers Should Stay Away From Mozart. Except Mark Morris. 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z In addition to the three sonatas, the printed program promised short pieces to be announced from the stage, essentially programmed encores. Review: At Bargemusic, a Masterful Duo Dives Into Strauss With Breakneck Élan 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z But he returns to New York on Saturday for a scheduled recital of Beethoven’s three final piano sonatas. Classical Music This Week: Modern Baroque, ‘Workers Union’ and Rachmaninoff 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z His lectures on Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas remain a central tenet of music broadcasting. Day-Lewis knighted in Honours list 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z And Brahms was a lifelong companion of Stern’s, not only with his Violin Concerto and Double Concerto, but also with his three violin sonatas and other chamber works. Music Review: Isaac Stern Memorial Concert, With Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax 2014-02-24T22:40:33Z “The accordion is not a chamber music instrument,” huffs the letter, written in the wake of a concert featuring a Bach sonata transcribed for cello and accordion. Chamber Music Society’s Leaders on Balancing Old and New 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z But the most revealing performance came in Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 6 in A. Completed in 1940, this nearly 30-minute work channels some barbaric, propulsive, harmonically brittle outbursts into a formal four-movement sonata structure. Music Review: Yuja Wang at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-21T22:23:35Z "Bridging II" likewise connects this sonata with Opus 30, No. 3. Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner play in the transforming spirit of Beethoven 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z He became associated with performances of Beethoven's work, playing the complete cycle of 32 piano sonatas which was later recorded and released. Classical pianist Frank dies aged 89 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Anyone picturing a herculean Beethoven, shaking his fists at the heavens, may be taken aback, McCabe says, by some of the delicacies in the violin sonatas. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z The Prokofiev Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major began life as a flute sonata, and remains one of the great solo pieces for that latter instrument. SCMS fest, night 2: Jazzy Martinu, eloquent Tchaikovsky 2013-07-02T16:06:06Z Somewhere in the afterlife, I am going to accompany his violin in the Brahms G major sonata. Paul Klee by Philip Hensher 2011-08-05T21:55:08Z She was in her early twenties, and the sonata became the leitmotif of my grandfather’s courtship: he continued to whistle its theme to her for decades, on walks in their leafy Jerusalem neighborhood. Sleepless Nights with András Schiff and Beethoven’s Sonatas 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z They continue their partnership with a series of four concerts featuring the complete Beethoven violin sonatas alongside new works inspired by a sonata on the program. Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 23-29 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z The violin sonatas are unusual, compared with the string quartets or piano sonatas, in that they don’t span the length of the composer’s career. Larionoff, McCabe take on Beethoven’s violin sonatas at UW 2013-02-14T23:06:45Z Other offerings include a Mozart Marathon, for which the pianist Fazil Say will perform a string of Mozart sonatas on several different dates. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z |
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