Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SECOND in-house selection was by Dunster's own composer-in-residence, Charles Kletzsch, whose enthusiasm and talent have long fired the house music program. It was titled 'Sonata for Piano No. 3, in F# Major', and was actually penned nearly 25 years...
...musical circles, Thomson is recognized as a revolutionary modernist. Yesterday's program included such eclectic compositions as "Capital, Capitals," a four-part chanted vocalization of a Gertrude Stein dialogue with piano accompaniment, and "Sonata for Flute Alone," which was performed by Fenwick Smith, a well-known Boston flutist...
...mechanically plunked out a nonsensical tune like figures on a music box. The laboriously articulated joke came when one ape bopped another on the head at crucial points in the tune. The humor was too bizarre to explain, but the bit had the grace and precision of a comic sonata...
Grieg's E-minor sonata is the set's only other piece in the standard repertoire. (In his liner notes reprinted from the original 1973 release Gould, with typical humor, claims that his rendition of the sonata should be considered as definitive because his maternal grandmother was Grieg's cousin.) The same can be said of Gould's performance of the Grieg sonata as of the Brahms' Intermezzi: he emphasizes inner (detractors would say "extraneous") voices, and takes unusually slow tempos. Still, taken on its own terms, the sonata is musically coherent and surprisingly lyrical, especially the Andante Molto second...
...minor sonata, Op. 5 (written when the composer was a mere 16 years old), recorded in 1982, Gould's incredibly clear playing is matched with appropriately fast tempos in the outer movements, and with a beautiful, singing melody line in the Adagio cantabile...