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Saturday Noon Concert (25): Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major, Opus 79

The 25th piano sonata written by Beethoven is rather short (in spite of having three movements), quick and playful. The truth is that we don’t know what else to tell you about it. Here it is:

As usual, we want to thank Bunji Hisamori for his kind permission to post the above audio rendering on our blog. The midi file was downloaded from The Classical Music Archives. You can find some technical details and the previous sonatas from this series here.

Saturday Noon Concert (24): Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Opus 78

Beethoven dedicated this sonata to one of his students, the Duchess Thérèse von Brunswick (she might be the one for whom Für Elise was written too). So this is perhaps how Beethoven sounds when he’s in love. 🙂 Happy listening:

As usual, we want to thank Bunji Hisamori for his kind permission to post the above audio rendering on our blog. The midi file was downloaded from The Classical Music Archives. You can find some technical details and the previous sonatas from this series here.

Saturday Noon Concert (22): Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 22 in F major, op. 54

We don’t know much about this sonata. Apart from the obvious fact that it has only two movements, that is, and the historic evidence pointing to 1804 as the year when it was written. Anyway, you might want to listen to it, so here we go:

As usual, we want to thank Bunji Hisamori for his kind permission to post the above audio rendering on our blog. The midi file was downloaded from The Classical Music Archives. The previous sonatas from this series are here.

Saturday Noon Concert (21): Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op.53 ‘Waldestein’

This one is perhaps one of the most famous piano sonatas composed by Beethoven, being used for the soundtrack of several movies, the titles of which we can’t remember right now. Apart from being famous, it is quite good, so we think you’ll have a nice listening. Enjoy!

As usual, we want to thank Bunji Hisamori for his kind permission to post the above audio rendering on our blog. The midi file was downloaded from The Classical Music Archives. The previous sonatas from this series are here.

Saturday Noon Concert (20): Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 20 in G major, Op. 49, No. 2

So, here is Beethoven’s 20th piano sonata (and we still have 12 more sonatas to go). Its story is the same with that of the sonata we wrote about last week, except for the names of its movements, which are “Allegro, ma non troppo” and “Tempo di Menuetto” (yes, it also has only two parts), so we won’t bother you with that. Happy listening!

As usual, we want to thank Bunji Hisamori for his kind permission to post the above audio rendering on our blog. The midi file was downloaded from The Classical Music Archives. The previous sonatas from this series are here.

Saturday Noon Concert (19): Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49, No. 1

This has only two parts (Andante and Rondo), so it’s not actually a sonata. Beethoven probably wrote it as an excercise for his students and didn’t want it to be published. His brother, however, thought it should be, and nowadays this little piece is included among Beethoven’s other sonatas, so we thought you might want to give it a try.

We want to thank Bunji Hisamori for his kind permission to post the above audio rendering on our blog. The midi file was downloaded from The Classical Music Archives. The previous sonatas from this series are here.

S-a descoperit o partitura a lui Mozart!

Acum aproape doi ani (in februarie 2007). Am mai durat ceva timp pana cand a fost autentificata ca apartinand lui Mozart si pana a fost descifrata, iar ieri a fost cantata pentru prima data in public de Daniel Cuiller, directorul ansamblului baroc Stradivaria din Nantes. Daca sunteti curiosi sa auziti cum suna, here you go:

[via PresseOcéan.fr]

Saturday Noon Concert (17): Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.17 in D-, Op.31, No.2 ‘Tempest’

Beethoven’s biographer Anton Schindler said that this sonata was inspired by Shakespeare’s play The Tempest. This claim is, however, disputed by other music scholars (see here).

That aside, the first part may remind you of a storm, but the second doesn’t seem to have anything to do with weather, being a bit boring. The third, on the other hand, is quite lyrical and very beautiful and if you haven’t heard it already, then you should, ’cause you’ll like it a lot. Or not, but in that case you don’t like classical music. 🙂

Enjoy your listening:

We want to thank Bunji Hisamori for his kind permission to post the above audio rendering on our blog. The midi file was downloaded from The Classical Music Archives. The previous sonatas from this series are here.