Comments on: The Beethoven piano sonatas

The Beethoven piano sonatas

Gyan — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 18:30:10 -0800

Andras Schiff's lecture-recitals on Beethoven's piano sonatas

By: twsf

twsf — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:07:33 -0800

Wonderful - great find.

By: LooseFilter

LooseFilter — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:13:29 -0800

Holy crap, how great is this? Thanks for posting, Gyan!

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:33:01 -0800

Looks filthy. I'd like to hear stuff about Bach's as well, since I got a little intro to him in college and was intrigued. I almost got to see Schiff at the Seattle Symphony, I think, but it sold out. Thanks for this.

By: event

event — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:09:42 -0800

This is very good.

By: kfx

kfx — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 20:30:12 -0800

2:23am on the highway number 10 out of Brampton. The rough, bucking horses beneath the Chevy's hood were straining with all their might to bring us to the bright future we knew lay across the horizon, if we could just get there before it moved again. Twice we had seen the sun rise and set from the cabin of that old truck, and twice we had traded seats and hammered the pedal with renewed vigor. Twice, we had tried to stop for a quick bite, some sloppy eggs and week-old hash-browns, but each time we had left before the food arrived out of fear that the horizon was going to outpace us as we rested. At 2:23am, Sharon turned on the radio. Typical commercial shit, some yokel going on about how his lady got knocked up and left him for his brother, or another stupid pop bitch spouting erotic nothings for the world to hear. Finally, she turned the knob until it found something else entirely. It took a moment to register after the brash stomp and clang of contemporary music, as though it was almost defined by it's lack of these things -- and the peace that same tranquility brought -- rather than by the crude sounds of strings and twigs of wood woven together. There were violins and instruments too many to name, working together to produce crescendos and ebbs that anyone could recognize as the rhythm of lovemaking in a way that completely transcended the individual instruments themselves. I looked over at Sharon, and for the first time since I met her she smiled. I smiled too, at that, and at the peace I could feel settling over me like a gentle winter's snowfall. It was at 2:23am, on the highway number 10 out of Brampton, that Sharon and I realized we had found where we had been trying to get for so long. And it took Johann Sebastian Bach to lead us there.

By: jam_pony

jam_pony — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:39:09 -0800

I like his Bach better than Gould's. Thanks for the post.

By: jam_pony

jam_pony — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:43:06 -0800

kfx, is that a quotation, or can you write?!

By: tentacle

tentacle — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 09:03:11 -0800

Thanks, Gyan, this is excellent!

By: kfx

kfx — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 10:22:41 -0800

I don't know about really being able to write, but it is not a quotation.

By: BobsterLobster

BobsterLobster — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:12:50 -0800

Wowow!

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:01:22 -0800

FYI, the next four parts have now been posted: Sonata № 5 in C minor Op.10 № 1 Sonata № 6 in F major Op.10 № 2 Sonata № 7 in D major Op.10 № 3 Sonata № 8 'Pathétique' in C minor Op.13

By: BobsterLobster

BobsterLobster — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 14:35:14 -0800

How did you know that? I don't see the links anywhere on the website. It would be good to know where the next set of links are going to appear. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:39:03 -0800

I agree that their website is really confusing and poorly designed. I somehow stumbled upon the podcast feed for the lectures, and those entries just appeared on it so I expect the rest of them will be posted there too.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:21:50 -0800

The next five parts have been posted, this time things are somewhat out of sequence. Sonata № 19 in G minor Op.49 № 1 Sonata № 20 in G major Op.49 № 2 Sonata № 9 in E major Op.14 № 1 Sonata № 10 in G major Op.14 № 2 Sonata № 11 in B_b major Op.22 See also this page which lists links to all parts in one place.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:16:59 -0800

Sonata № 12 in A_b major Op.26 Sonata № 13 'Quasi una Fantasia' in E_b major Op.27 № 1 Sonata № 14 'Moonlight' in C_# minor Op.27 № 2 Sonata № 15 'Pastorale' in D major Op.28

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 11:42:09 -0800

Sonata № 16 in G major Op.31 № 1 Sonata № 17 'Tempest' in D minor Op.31 № 2 Sonata № 18 'The Hunt' in E_b major Op.31 № 3 Sonata № 21 'Waldstein' in C major Op.53