Word: sonata
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...music season isn't in full swing yet, but there should be at least one throughly enjoyable concert Friday evening, when Kirkland's brand new Boesendorfer piano can be heard in its solo recital debut. Seth Carlin will play program featuring Beethoven's oft-featured Waldstein sonata and one of Schoenberg's first serial works, the Five Pieces, Op. 23. Maryse Carlin (playing a Steinway) will join Seth in a performance of the Mozart Sonata for Two Pianos. Also, Brahms: Eight Pieces...
...local English-speaking community and co-produced by Joyce. Stoppard's Carr is a rambling codger in a floor-length dressing gown as he tells us Stoppard's story in flash-backs, wreathing himself in cigarette smoke as he pounds out a travesty of Beethoven's Appassionata sonata whenever he wants the audience to realize he is saying something meant to be profound...
...wonder why the young people only want to see the avant garde experimentalism of Mayadovsky and not good, solid Chekhov. The only art that could move Lenin to tears in his last years, Krupskaya tearfully recounts, was--and the spotlight falls on Carr once again playing it--the Appassionata sonata...
Earlier in this century, composers rarely featured the cello, considering it a lowly second cousin to the violin. Artists like Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mstislav Rostropovich and Starker revealed the silken tonal beauty of the instrument. Still, the repertory remains narrow. Starker speculates that this Brahms sonata, written in the year of the composer's death (1897), may have been his last work. In any event, his publisher died soon after. With the decline of the firm, copies of the Brahms sonata may have been overlooked until at last the so nata disappeared from view...
Called the "Ram Song" sonata be cause Brahms borrowed the melody of his Opus 59 Regenlied, the D major so nata emerged a varied, complex work with some diabolical technical demands. But Starker plays the cello as naturally as others speak. From a firm and steady bow a shimmering melodic line un wound, juxtaposed with rich chords. After the performance Starker said, "You'd think Brahms had written it for the cello...