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The conclusion of our discussion on Beethoven's Opus 49 is a dance in rondo form. We discuss barnacles, tiramisu, and Beethoven's dark side. TRY A FREE 2-MONTH PRIMEPHONIC TRIAL: https://account.primephonic.com/ref/160b849a17c37560071d475ec Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
One sonata down, one to go. This episode focuses on the first sonata form movement of Sonata #19. We discuss Goldilocks, Star Trek, and hear a story of one of Beethoven's temper tantrums. TRY A FREE 2-MONTH PRIMEPHONIC TRIAL: https://account.primephonic.com/ref/160b849a17c37560071d475ec Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
Today, we delve into the 2nd and final movement of Beethoven's Sonata #20, completing the first of many piano sonatas on the podcast. We discuss minuets, Beethoven's meddlesome little brother, and club sandwiches. TRY A FREE 2-MONTH PRIMEPHONIC TRIAL: https://account.primephonic.com/ref/160b849a17c37560071d475ec Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
This episode marks the start of a sojourn to the Classical Period where we will discuss Beethoven's Opus 49, a pair of the easiest sonatas in Beethoven's oeuvre. We discuss the sonata form, Lord of the Rings, and my poor memory. TRY A FREE 2-MONTH PRIMEPHONIC TRIAL: https://account.primephonic.com/ref/160b849a17c37560071d475ec Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
In The Hare’s Bride, a young maiden minding her cabbages gets whisked off to an unexpected wedding under a rainbow. In desperately trying to unpick the meaning of the story, we discuss ‘animal bridegrooms’ in folklore, beauty and the beast, and blade runner. TwitterFacebookInstagram grimmreadingpodcast@gmail.com Theme music: Bicycle Waltz by Goodbye Kumiko Other music: Johannes Brahms's 16 Waltzes, Op. 39, #2 - Performed by Martha Goldstein// Ludwig van Beethoven's Sonata no. 15 in d major, op. 28 'pastorale' - iv. rondo. allegro, ma non troppo - Performed by Karine Gilanyan
Acclaimed classical violinist Jennifer Koh joins us live from the studios of NPR in New York City. Not only is she a virtuoso player, she is one of the great champions of contemporary composers, having commissioned more than 70 works from a brilliant and diverse group of composers from all over the world. Ms. Koh will be playing a concert on Sunday, January 27 at 5:30pm at Baltimore's Hebrew Congregation, performing a program of Beethoven Sonatas and a modern piece by Vijay Iyer, with her frequent concert partner, pianist Shai Wosner, as part of the Shriver Hall Concert Series. We're delighted to welcome Jennifer Koh to Midday, today. She talks about her art and her upcoming concert, and performs two short solo pieces: “Kinski Paganini,” by Missy Mazzoli, and the Sarabande from the Violin Partita in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. The show's closing music today is from the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata for Violin and Piano No 1. in D Minor, Op. 12, performed by Jennifer Koh and Shai Wosner at the Aspen Music Festival and School, in July 2015
After a performance by Alex McDonald of the first movement of Beethoven's Sonata op. 2 no. 3, we wrap talking about Alex's battles with injury and his experience at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, discuss our favorite Darwin Awards, and hear Alex's best/worst gigs and pieces of advice. We finish with a rousing game of "Serial or Aleatoric."
April 24, 2014. Cellist Daniel Müller-Schott and pianist Simon Trpčeski perform Beethoven's Sonata in C major, op. 102, no. 1, Brahms' Sonata in F major, op. 99, and Chopin's Sonata in G minor, op .65. For more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6853
April 24, 2014. As part of a talk preceding a performance by Daniel Müller-Schott and Simon Trpceski, David Plylar speaks about some of the relationships between musical materials in three major sonatas for cello and piano -- in essence, an introduction to motives and their motivations. Works addressed include Beethoven's Sonata in C major, op. 102/1, Brahms' Sonata in F major, op. 99 and Chopin's Sonata in G minor, op. 65. Speaker Biography: David Plylar is a specialist in the Library's Music Division. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6484
One of the treasures of the Library's collection of composers' autographs is the manuscript of Ludwig van Beethoven's late E major piano sonata. William Meredith presents a fascinating event with a distinguished collaborator, Malcolm Bilson, as partner. The talk and performance focuses on elements of the creative process visible in Beethoven's manuscript score, and some interesting details it can reveal about what Beethoven does not want the composer to do. Speaker Biography: William Meredith is the founding director of The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University, which opened to the public in 1985. He is editor of The Beethoven Journal and the scholarly monograph series American Beethoven Studies. He is currently working with Professors Robin Wallace and Wayne Senner on the German reception history of Beethoven's music. He first studied the autograph of the Sonata Opus 109 when he was writing his dissertation on the compositional process of the work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Speaker Biography: A professor at the Music Department at Cornell University since 1968, Malcolm Bilson has distinguished himself as one of the pioneers in historic performance practice, specializing in performance on the fortepiano, the 18th century forerunner of the modern piano. Speaker Biography: Shin Hwang made his public debut as a pianist performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Lafayette College Orchestra. He attended Edward Parmentier's harpsichord workshop, where he discovered his affinity for the harpsichord and early music. Since then he has performed both solo programs on the harpsichord and fortepiano and with the University of Michigan's baroque ensembles. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6187