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With the same dream-like immediacy of transition, we find ourselves in the relatively distant key of A flat major (linked to C major by the single common note, C). There’s a feeling of great depth and awe there, but also of elegance and beauty. They create two worlds, as opposing as they are complementary, similarly rich in atmosphere, and possessing a similar power to transport us elsewhere immediately upon hearing their opening bars. The day strikes me differently after hearing András Schiff, in concert yesterday evening, playing Beethoven’s Op. A brighter middle section (12:53) brings some playfulness with a dotted triplet motif, but the merrymaking only lasts its allotted 16 bars, unable to stave off a return to the bleaker world of the main theme. 31 No. But it seems to me that the writing is far too pianistic to parody opera, and perhaps too pristine to be a parody at all. 27, the ‘Moonlight’ is like a dark shadow born in the afterglow of No. A detailed guide that analyzes the structural, harmonic and thematic frame. ‘Just read The Tempest!’ Beethoven allegedly told his sometime secretary Anton Schindler, in reply to a request to provide the key to Sonata No. 27 No. He watched a few of the Beethoven 32 videos and offered to collaborate on some of the Beethoven scores we were filming. 1, with its younger sister, the Pathétique, Op. From that point on, it is all relentless, unremitting tension, in one wave after another, almost through to the end. Beethoven’s critics had previously reproached him for writing sonata forms too close to fantasies, too irregular, too free. Arietta. repeats it multiple times around the slightly more sombre episodes, allowing us (and perhaps himself too, as a performer) to enjoy it to its fullest. And then—another shock!—the introduction returns (4:51). If Sonata No. And then my interlocutor added, as if a bit embarrassed by this, “even Op. A fantasy was a free-form musical composition, commonly consisting of several loosely linked sections with abrupt shifts of tempo, mood and key. © Copyright 2002-2021 Hendrik Slegtenhorst. 2 (0:04) is the only one where a certain uneventfulness could perhaps be reproached, but Beethoven imbues even such a respectable, dependable Allegro with elegance and a refined sparkle. Now life continues, and with intensity, but I will be digesting last week for a while, I’m sure. Based on sketches in one of Beethoven’s notebooks, Sonata No. 111, the last of the 32 piano sonatas. This week I was supposed to be in Sacile, near Venice, filming the next block of sonatas at the concert hall of Fazioli. I won’t bore you with the ultimately unexceptional story of all my concerts getting cancelled in quick succession from mid-March to more or less now. And to the wealth of positive, kind and benevolent emotions radiating from No. But the problem with this story is twofold: first, in Schindler’s account, Beethoven’s reply applied to both Sonata No. 19, Op 49, No. I thought it an awesome idea, and here's the first result – sonata No. Then things progressed during the second and general rehearsals of each concerto, but it was only during the concerts themselves that I felt that I got anywhere near touching whatever musical truth lies behind the scores. As well as the complete set, we also publish all Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas as separate items of sheet music.Here is the list. Later, he would give the same epithet to the Pathétique, the Waldstein and the Hammerklavier. A moment of hesitation just before the end, one final silence, and then the sonata closes with a final plunge into the C minor abyss. So it was a double victory for Beethoven: a chance to showcase his extreme mastery of the keyboard, while enchanting the listeners with a hitherto unheard sound effect. 32 The complete Beethoven sonatas About Experience the legendary pianist Daniel Barenboim’s touchstone recordings of the complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas, filmed in 1983–1984 in the glittering grandeur of Austrian palaces! In a way, we could see it as a closing, summarising chapter of the first third of Beethoven’s sonatas cycle. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 111. 12 is a door leading to exciting, hitherto unexplored musical worlds. 4, during which I experienced something which until now I’ve only felt while playing Russian music: a kind of floating, when your brain disengages or splits in two. first impressions are so important…), also as we were still refining our filming workflow, and musically as No. Beethoven never repeats himself, insists András Schiff. 27 No. 10 which we filmed last week – to be honest, to move from absolute zero to filming in 9 days is crazy… But I loved it so much: utter intensity, utter focus, the music occupying your brain morning till night, evolving before your eyes – it’s exhilarating, and with the music being SO good, the challenges recede before an overwhelming desire to make the music justice and to make it as vibrant, captivating and alive as you can. And adds that this sonata is “one of the wonders of mankind.” It moves, and moves one, in a kind of exaltation, to borrow the word from Anton Kuerti. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor Op.111 Analysis. A freshness emanates from the opening of the ‘Pastoral’ Sonata; its pulsing bass is akin to a beating heart, bearing the promise of a continuous, unstoppable flow. So what now? life? An unforgettable week, to be honest. That short, melodic figure proves important later on, as Beethoven builds half the development section around it – first as an imitative narrative (5:02), then in a veiled, pianissimo section (5:15), and finally as material for a wonderful build-up (6:22), from a mysterious (though always driven) half-whisper and up to a blaze of brilliance leading back into the recapitulation. But this is an altogether more subtle question than the one asked by the first movement, and for me, the finale works wonderfully without any analysis too. Based on sketches in one of Beethoven’s notebooks, Sonata No. A friend of Beethoven’s expressed his opinion that the The other half of the development, incidentally, is built around a minor transition motif from the exposition, that Beethoven takes out of its anonymous existence and puts centre stage, repeating twelve (!) Only at the very end (9:55) does Beethoven allow the emotion to take over, finishing the movement in forte. 8-11, the Sonata No. I thought it would be a good point to start the blog. 21 (1804). 111 to be the last movement he would ever compose to a piano sonata; that is, unless some day sketches for a 3rd movement to Op. Bold, full blooded and virtuosic, it blazes with vigour and youth. Strongly accented notes, although rare, occur mostly on weak beats, helping obscure the bar lines. Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248-V, at the Sunday after New Year – Herod and the Magi, Mozart, Clarinet Quintet, K. 581, and Teachers – from Music and Being, J.S. From these blocks, Beethoven constructs a movement unified in mood and colour – everything is dark and tense. Bach, Christmas Oratorio BWV 248-VI, at Epiphany – God Incarnate as Christ, J.S. But I’ll leave it to the next posts. Following the glissandos the frantic energy suddenly peters out, and the theme appears several times above a pianissimo trill and a gently flowing left hand (24:24). Prolonged, but without an implied narrative or strong atmosphere (its C major can at times even seem bland). Like great science fiction writing often arises from a simple ‘what if’ question, the outer movements of the Sonata explore two musical worlds where something fundamental has been altered. There are, in Beethoven’s cycle, numerous sonatas that grab you immediately, whether as a performer or as a listener. Only the closing section (2:56) adds a lighter colour. 7-11 – those that had been filmed before the lockdown – and will continue filming as soon as the situation allows. Here, however, it is just a passing, though highly effective episode, whereupon the dazzling energy returns and the Sonata ends in full triumph. Similar to the trios Op. And the finale, a rondo in form, is a light-fingered perpetuum mobile, akin to a merrily bubbling brook which follows the funeral march to wash away all sorrow. The outpouring of loving emotion in the first movement – outwardly tender, yet full of inner ardour – presents a Beethoven we haven’t really encountered so far in the cycle. 7, in D major – which Beethoven intended as the high point of the trilogy. sonata was too long, whereupon he was frightfully reprimanded by Beethoven. 20, Op. This is a massive undertaking – I have played 9 of them so far, so 23 will be completely new, including some of the most challenging. is a delightful companion, wonderfully catchy and very fun to play. There, their recitativo-opening origin is finally acknowledged – and in what a way! The big climax comes at the point of reprise (11:32), which continues the fugal character, though in fortissimo, and with keyboard-spanning passages in alternating hands. 1 Beethoven does bring it back – but in the wrong key of D major. Op. “I love all Beethoven sonatas,” I was once told in a conversation. The other sonata of the pair, No. Here, spirituality is abundant, and Beethoven’s sense of colour, texture and register is exquisite. 1, also among the 3 Sonatas Op. The second theme is unexpectedly humorous, and just as unexpected are the premonition of the famous fate motif in the super-short development (16:19 – the 5th Symphony for a moment!) Privacy policy at https://hendrikslegtenhorst.com/privacy-policy/ The finale (“what a weird little piece!” exclaimed Stewart after our first take) is light-spirited and jovial, full of fun and jokes. It is very tempting to talk of watershed moments – perhaps only visible to us in hindsight – but the Waldstein, its every note radiant with inspiration, is surely a landmark in Beethoven’s development, as well as in the development of the sonata genre in Beethoven’s hands. Bach, Cantata 124, at Epiphany 1 – The Final Blow of Death, J.S. However, it is definitely a piece characterised by its sparkle, light-fingered drive and ebullient energy, rather than inventiveness or depth of emotion. Those of you who have been following the project on social media will already know most of the below, so please feel free to skip this post and come back tomorrow for Sonata No. 26. And lest it all sound like damning with faint praise, for me these are magnificent examples of Beethoven dedicating the same love, care and thought to all of the sonatas, no matter whether intended as world-altering blockbusters, or as intimate and friendly musical utterances. 12 in A flat major, Op. 2 was probably composed immediately before Sonata No. Can’t wait to share it all with you. The main body of the first movement is full of relentless drive, storm and drama. 28 'Pastorale' Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. If we were to judge this sonata by its fast movements – inventive, fresh, brilliant and imaginative, assured, full of humor and surprises – it would feel as a natural development and intensification of a musical path Beethoven followed in his earlier works. – and I thought today will be a good moment to write a bit about where things stand. From that point on, a new sonata will follow every one or two weeks, always on a Friday. It is followed by a serene second movement showing Beethoven already on a quest for lyrical, poetic beauty. 3, on the other. Having written the above, I wonder if it is unfair to reproach the sonata for mostly playing it safe. Of the five variations that follow, two stand out: the third one, in the very uncommon key of A flat minor (seven flats! Instead of live concerts, I was doing live-streams from home every 1-3 days, and it was the direct contact with the online audience, their support and their presence which helped me get through these difficult months. Sonata form was the most prominent musical structure of the Classical period and is divided into three sections. 1, on one side and the mature masterpiece which is the D major sonata, Op. After the passion and darkness of the F minor sonata, and the easy, warm eloquence of the A major sonata, Beethoven turned to C major for a work of explosive brilliance. All rights reserved, including educational use. 106 (known as the Große Sonate für das Hammerklavier, or more simply as the Hammerklavier) is a piano sonata that is widely viewed as one of the most important works of the composer's third period and among the greatest piano sonatas of all time. And the fact that the first movement is relatively technically undemanding could only increase the work’s popularity. An absolute masterpiece in its own right. 111, is the last of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas. image I have in the beginning is of two dogs happily chasing each other’s tails, but the dolce marking and the innocent delight of the opening bars do belie a fair share of drama in the development, with several chains of surprising modulations (at 8:00 particularly, the left hand, if played on its own, could have well been composed by Bartók or Ligeti). 49, No. The finale (14:06) – one of the few 'prestissimo' movements Beethoven wrote – starts as a tautly wound spring, soon to explode with thundering passages. But the music itself is bursting with humour, closer to a comedy sketch. Nestled between two titans – the Waldstein and the Appassionata – is an unusual, enigmatic two-movement work. 111: II. ), This year I will be intensely living through Beethoven’s 32 sonatas. Based on sketches in one of Beethoven’s notebooks, Sonata No. 17 and Sonata No. A return to the opening theme, accompanied this time by a flowing middle voice, leads into a short cadenza; the music halts for a brief moment …. Last week I wrote about sonata No. 10, and before the Pathétique. Beethoven seems more relaxed here, softer, at times genuinely happy. 111, is the last of Ludwig van Beethoven's piano sonatas.The work was written between 1821 and 1822. And I’m also sure that this ‘extra more’ Beethoven I experienced last week will remain a guiding light for me as to how Beethoven can and should feel onstage. The structural innovation is easy to point out: out of the Sonata’s four movements, none are in actual sonata form. 10 No. 5. Once this happens, the finale starts gently (15:11) – a spinning wheel of a perpetuum mobile, with a caressing dynamic and light tempo. I’ve been playing all 5 quite regularly since I was a teenager, and I’ve recorded four of them last year. The ending achieves even greater heights of lyricism – surely among the most beautiful pages written by Beethoven. The third variation increases the flow by expanding the right-hand accompaniment into semiquavers. The very first bars are seemingly written in two, until the third bar establishes the real meter – in three. From Variation 4 onwards each beta divides into nine, and so the correct time signature would be 27/32, but Beethoven uses 9/16 with implied triplet signs. Prior to this project, Sonata No. A similar situation arises in Variation 3. The rondo finale contrasts a wonderfully flowing refrain with more ebullient episodes as well as a highly dramatic middle section. Whatever depths of evocative storytelling we encountered in Sonata No. 5 and 6. The second and final movement (6:12) is a perpetuum mobile in calmly flowing semiquavers. 13’s loosely joined sections with a linear progression of defined, clearly structured movements. 111, as both this use of a trill – not ornamental, but part of the music’s core – and the concept of material-into-spirit will play a major role in that Sonata’s second movement. And Beethoven does have one final trick up his sleeve: after a cliff-hanger near the end of the movement, the slow movement returns – a structural device unprecedented in Beethoven’s large-scale works – granting us a valedictory dose of poetic beauty, before the music plunges into a presto coda, ending the sonata with finger-breaking fireworks. Bach: Book 3 – Trinity XVII-XXVII, Surviving Government in a Small Town – Volume One: Powers and Taxation, Surviving Government in a Small Town – Volume Two: Functions and Integrity, Caravaggio’s Dagger (Solitary Ethics, Book One), The Snows of Good Friday – Edmonton, Alberta, April 2014, J.S. It is also perhaps the most deeply-felt part of the sonata, questingly exploring numerous keys in a long modulating passage. … and then the finale hits, and it is a bit of a shock at first – so utterly down-to-earth it is, with both feet on the ground and all ten fingers solidly on the keyboard. Allegro 4. And so, each performance is but a frozen (though fluid) snapshot of that dreamed-of interpretation, and much of the daily practising struggle is trying to bridge the divide between the two. 27, No. 21 (1804). 111 will be released on New Year’s day 2021. And day breaks indeed, with the sun appearing in all its glory above a blazing trill and a burst of energy in the left hand (16:15). With the advent of the scherzo (18:10), the shadow has passed. 53) … there was originally a grand Andante. Those included the Moonlight, Pastoral, Tempest, Waldstein and Appassionata, as well as all the unnamed-yet-no-less-magnificent sonatas in between. The heart of the sonata for me is its middle movement (6:20): a slowly unfolding soliloquy, gently glowing, suspended in a timeless world. 1 is likely to date from 1797 or early 1798, around the time of composition of the Sonatas, Op. My teacher, Arie Vardi, used to say of this part of the work that ‘material melts and becomes spirit’, and it rings very true to me; this forms an unexpected connection with Beethoven’s last sonata, Op. Piano Sonata No.31 in A♭, Op.110 31. It's also temptingly easy to compare the C minor sonata, Op. On the other hand, an explosive cascade of double octave triplets, insistent almost to a point of parody or ridicule (1:01). The two previous trilogies in Beethoven’s sonata cycle – the three sonatas, Op. Beethoven finally gives us a movement in full sonata form, as clear in its musical language as if it were illuminated by bright sunlight, realistic, full of good-natured humour, and propelling itself forward on the endless self-generated energy of its happily industrious semiquavers. The manuscripts then lay unpublished for years until in 1802, Beethoven’s brother Kaspar Karl, serving as part-time secretary to Beethoven, included them in an offer to a publisher. 2). 1 is likely to date from 1797 or early 1798, around the time of composition of the Sonatas, Op. soon convinced my teacher of the truth of the remark. 13’s light. In this core idea, it is surprisingly similar to the finale of the Appassionata; also in the unexpected repeat of the second half of both movements. It is immensely loveable and an absolute joy to perform. Harmonically, the movement is extremely stable, repeatedly coming back to the home key. Happily, the July sessions took place, and we were able to film 13 (!) 7, 22, 26 and 28). But any kind of upset expectation can be humorous, if the expectation is widely shared – as this one probably was at the time among the connoisseurs). 1 (hence, expectations! The F minor sonata, opening the opus, is laconic in its musical language and form, but highly expressive in its emotional content. In June, the first hints of a chance to continue filming appeared, and Stewart and I pounced on that chance like hungry hawks. 111: II. All are high quality facsimiles of the original sheet music form of the sonata(s) in each case. And it seems one pop legend has had the same idea. 29 in B ♭ major, Op. On one hand a stately minuet, its dotted rhythm opening motif repeated in several registers over the keyboard, rich and warm in the bass, pure and crystalline in the soprano. I am not so sure; different things, undoubtedly. Why dreamscape: Hesse wrote that music scores are frozen tone-dreams; but so are interpretations, since what we imagine, what we hear inside our heads while looking at a piece of music, can often be miles away from what our fingers are actually producing. It was written between 1821 and 1822. 12 seems to me but the first step on this path, something we become aware of only in retrospect. You are in Beethoven’s world now. The opening movement is in textbook-perfect sonata form, putting on hold Beethoven’s previous experiments with structure and dramaturgy. But the evocative power of the music, its heightened sensitivity show Beethoven’s unstoppable growth as an artist. I must admit there is very little I can write about the sonata – if ever there was a case where the music speaks fully for itself, this is it. The finale (17:20) is my favourite movement. But more than a simplistic depiction, to me the first movement is an exploration of the mystery of life, from its first beginnings, evoking a sense of wonder and requiring utmost love and care, to the rich abundance of life’s full bloom, captured by Beethoven in multifaceted, sensitive, breathing strokes. I love the sheer musicality of Stephen's approach and the clarity and transparency which his animation brings to the music. A development would upset this idyllic world, and Beethoven reduces it to a single chord (9:21) linking back to the reprise. Which supports my point, that Beethoven was done writing piano sonatas, and had consciously decided to stop at 32. But even in Beethoven’s time this passage must have been a case of his showing off. Its easy charm is lovingly explored by Beethoven – the movement is full of imaginative sonorities (the shimmering accompaniment to the melody at 20:23 is a highlight), interesting harmonies (for example the descending chromaticism at 22:08), and a natural, easy to follow (and easy to like) narrative. The instrument becomes ever more malleable in Beethoven’s hands, the colours and sonorities he conjures ever more lifelike and evocative, natural and almost self-evident, inescapable in their truthfulness. To celebrate Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, I will be learning and filming all 32 of his sonatas over the course of 2020. times with nearly manic insistence in a wildly modulatory section (5:29). The question of an extra-musical meaning will probably remain open for this movement, but there is definite pleasure in simply letting go and floating slowly through this classically beautiful soundscape. This week I’m in the UK, playing Shostakovich and Dvorak with the PHQ, Rachmaninov 2 with the Halle, studying and filming new Beethoven sonatas, the whirlwind goes on – but I’d love to stop time for five minutes, and talk about the concerti. The slow movement is a moment of Apollonian beauty, expressed in pure and full-bodied sound over resonant repeating octaves in the bass. This is also Beethoven’s own magic: to take something as commonplace as a chord used to signal the beginning of a recitativo in opera all throughout the 18th century, and to transform it into a work of art simply by slowing it down and bringing its dynamic down to pianissimo. Bach, Cantata BWV 58, at the Sunday after New Year – Death in a New Eden, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_XPYX1X-6w&fbclid=IwAR0ThF8vhrOgOQla8JnI0wGQ4Rqe1-3ST56YNYAODeeUk5deXFBS1gcEHIQ. Interestingly, it is the less famous, unnicknamed Sonata No. Instead, they are much earlier works. 20, Op. 2 and 7, written 4-5 years earlier. It explores the upper reaches of the keyboard too, in a weightless and pointedly beautiful crystalline middle section. And it is the finale which is perhaps the most striking movement of the four. The finale brings back Beethoven’s enjoyment of manipulating meter. The heavy, measured tread immediately conjures the scene of the march before our eyes, with the skill of a master storyteller. These are not strictly correct by modern rules, since the former implies two groups of three semiquavers and the latter four groups of three demisemiquavers, but these conventions were not established in Beethoven’s day. My old preparation, my fallbacks, my useful comments in the scores weren’t enough – the first rehearsal results were predictable, okay, and absolutely unsatisfying. This isn’t to say there are no challenges; in a way it’s one big, ongoing challenge. Even though I had been playing Beethoven since I was a child, I feel I’ve only really started to discover him over the past months, as I embarked on a journey to learn and film all 32 sonatas over the course of 2020. 1 is the most laconic in its material; in a way the more extrovert Nos. The finale’s opening (15:08) presents us with what was (intentionally, I believe) missing from the first movement – a long melody of true poetic beauty, earning the Sonata its second, much more artistic nickname, ‘L’Aurora’ (‘The Dawn’), as its gentle caress seemed to evoke the first colouring of the sky at daybreak. The slow movement, too, stands out in its emotional maturity and often exquisite beauty – its deep musicality wonderfully balancing the fireworks of the fast movements. 13 which adheres more closely to this ideal. The next one to follow, No. I’ll be releasing a new sonata every few weeks starting on the 17th of January, and I’ll be writing about my experience throughout the year. 27, Nos. 16 in G major, Op. The funeral march, ‘On the Death of a Hero’, is yet another instance of a perfect balance between the objective and the subjective. On the other, the Sonata is so easy-going, so light-spirited, so full of sunshine, that it feels much more like a release after Tempest’s dark tension than a further intensification. The rhythm of the opening figure, quaver-semiquaver, is developed obsessively in variation 1, and reappears twice as fast (with the note values halved) in Variation 2, then twice as fast again (note values quartered) in Variation 3. 2 and the three sonatas, Op. 14 – the utterly lovely, fresh, charming couple of short sonatas, are not just an antithesis but an antidote to the Pathétique, as if Beethoven needed to cleanse his spirit with limpid tones after the extreme dark intensity of the preceding sonata. Based on the opening notes, it is impossible to say where the downbeat is – is it on the second note of the right hand? 109, and C minor, Op. 2 showed us a laconic, tense and passionate Beethoven, here in the A major sonata he is charming, good natured, outgoing, eloquent. Before that, it would have been easy for me to write: Beethoven in the isolation of deafness; Beethoven the grimly scowling, defiant as fate comes knocking at the door… Hard to think of another composer whose image would better relate to us at present, when times darken around, and an unseen threat forces us, too, into tightening isolation. 27, it is as if Beethoven decided to show what he could achieve when explicitly attempting to meld a sonata and a fantasy. I see there a ballet for the fingers, with beautiful hand choreography implied in the music – stately steps in the left hand, slow wide leaps contrasted with fast-fingered runs in the right hand, all frozen on the page, awaiting a graceful reawakening. This love he must have felt to this music shines through, and the emotion is so heartfelt and genuine – take the beautiful pleading passage at 3:58 for example, or the beginning of the second movement, at 7:06, this gentle lullaby, almost Brahms-like in its earnestness. 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