Beethoven - Piano Sonata Op. 111; Schumann - Symphonische Etüden Op. 13, Toccata Op. 7 - Ivo Pogorelich
Beethoven still had five years left to live when he wrote this sonata but in many ways it feels like a definite end. The thirty two piano sonatas has spanned nearly thirty years of his life and transformed the genre from an at home entertainment to a vehicle of intimate, personal expression. Pianist Robin Taub describes Op. 111 as , "a work of unmatched drama and transcendence … the triumph of order over chaos, of optimism over anguish."
The work is only two movements, something he did in four previous sonatas but still unusual enough for Beethoven's publisher to assume that the final sonata-rondo has been lost in the post. A sketch was made for the last movement but, with every second counting, it was put aside in favour of the Missa Solemnis.
Beethoven had managed to solve the problem of unity between movements by resolving the conflicts of one in the other. The two-movement format also results in an interesting binary comparison representing the opposing forces of major/minor, allegro/adagio, appassionato/semplice, sonata form/variation form, turmoil/ecstatic serenity, earthly/spiritual prevalent in much of his work. ...
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Superb interpretations of Beethoven's Sonata Op. 111 and Schumann's Symphonische Etüden. Young Pogorelich in one of his greatest moments! (Erlen)
Beethoven
Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
Schumann
Symphonische Etüden, Op. 13
Toccata, Op. 7
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
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