Word: kinderscenen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allison Hall and Elizabeth Shreeve play Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14 and Schumann's "Kinderscenen" and Folk songs. Dunster House Library. 5:30 pm. Free
Schumann's Kinderscenen found Horowitz in a rare introspective mood, capable of colors ranging from petal pastels to autumnal browns and beiges. Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5 was a vehicle for him to demonstrate that whereas other pianists concern themselves with degrees of loudness, he seems to be capable of a thousand variations in softness. Horowitz, perhaps our foremost Scriabin interpreter, learned this work last summer, and his performance could be faulted only for a certain underplaying of the ecstatic concluding pages...