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Reflections on the Final Piano Sonatas of Franz Schubert
It is said the last three piano sonatas of Schubert are suffused with premonitions of his death. It may be so, but the contemplation is often sweet, as if Schubert cannot help being so in his music...
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Edmonton’s Enterprise Quartet – Une sensibilité sûre et sérieuse
Edmonton’s Enterprise Quartet, in another exceptional concert, last Sunday afternoon, at City Hall, to a full house, played quartets by Cherubini and Beethoven. The Enterprise Quartet is comprised of...
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Beethoven – Piano Sonata 1 in f, Op. 2/1 (1795)
In his exceptional analysis, pianist András Schiff explains that, although Beethoven took very little from Mozart, he took much from Haydn, in particular how to build a work from small cells, and how...
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Beethoven – Piano Sonata 14 in c♯, Op. 27/2 (1802)
The first movement of this sonata is marked alla breve, requiring a slow two, not four, in the bar, and “without damper,” implying depression of the damper pedal throughout. András Schiff, to...
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Thematic Compression & Introspection – Beethoven – Piano Sonata 15 in D, Op....
The notable features of the opening movement of this sonata are the much-favoured same-note ostinato (here perhaps presaging the violin concerto, Op. 61, in the same key), the progressive reduction of...
View ArticleRewarding Cycle of the Late Beethoven Quartets – The Enterprise Quartet
The Enterprise Quartet of Edmonton is presenting the cycle of the late Beethoven string quartets, and is now at Op. 131, half way through. This is a daunting venture, so the musicians, and the support...
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