Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight": 1. Adagio sostenuto Piano Sonata No.14 in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 -"Moonlight": 2. Allegretto Piano ...
With the exception of Debussy’s “Children’s Corner” Suite, Richard Goode’s program Saturday night in Shriver Hall was not one intended to charm or wow his audience: Schubert’s unfinished Sonata in C ...
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. They’re called the “Eroica Variations,” because Beethoven uses the same melody heard in the finale ...
If ever a recital programme was worth enshrining in CD format, it is this one. All my life I have obssessed about Beethoven's Eroica Symphony, one of the greatest, most dazzling and revolutionary ...
In May 1804, only a few days before Beethoven's Third Symphony was to have its first trial hearing in Vienna, Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself emperor. This was a blow to Beethoven, who, until that ...
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The first half of Jeremy Denk’s fascinating recital at Carnegie Hall on Friday was devoted to themes and variations, beginning with Beethoven’s cheeky Variations on “Rule Britannia,” and ending with ...
In the 18th and 19th centuries, composers wrote sets of keyboard variations by the furlong, and 99 percent of them are thoroughly forgettable. That cannot be said of the three sets chosen by Emanuel ...