Chamber music from Glasgow's RSNO Centre (1/4)
Recorded in early March 2020, pianist Steven Osborne performs Beethoven鈥檚 final piano sonatas to a live audience at the RSNO Centre in Glasgow.
Today鈥檚 lunchtime concert was recorded at the RSNO Centre in Glasgow, in early March 2020, with a live audience. Pianist Steven Osborne remarked from the stage, that 鈥榠f I had to pick one concert to play for the rest of my life, it would be this one鈥�. These final two piano sonatas by Beethoven were written in the early 1820s and provoked the composer to remark that the piano was, 鈥榓fter all an unsatisfactory instrument鈥�. He was pushing sonata form and the piano instrument of his time to the very limits. Pianist Alfred Brendel has described the finale of Beethoven鈥檚 Op 110 sonata thus, 鈥淚n a last euphoric effort, its conclusion reaches out beyond homophonic emancipation, throwing off the chains of music itself.鈥�
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31 in A flat major Op 110
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32 in C minor Op 111
Steven Osborne 鈥� piano
Presented by Kate Molleson
Produced by Laura Metcalfe
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 31 in A flat major, Op 110
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Piano Sonata No 32 in C minor, Op 111
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Sergey Prokofiev
Five Melodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 35b (I. Andante)
Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Alina Ibragimova.- Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas & Five Melodies.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Five Melodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 35b (II. Lento, ma non troppo)
Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Alina Ibragimova.- Prokofiev: Violin Sonatas & Five Melodies.
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- Tue 23 Feb 2021 13:00麻豆社 Radio 3