András Schiff - Sonata No.30 in E, Op.109 - Beethoven Lecture-Recitals

[@tinkerchel]

My fav Beethoven sonata. Upon hearing it you feel like you've known the composer, Beethoven for what seems to be a life time..Same with the other 3 of his last 4 sonatas. It's like a spiritual experience.

[@TRRyan]

The last movement, which Schiff feels is the most beautiful ever written by Beethoven, is special to me too. Decades ago I decided I would have it played at my funeral.

[@LRosenthal49]

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[@palebluegreen]

op. 109 is my favorite of beethoven’s piano sonatas as well

[@danaildanailov3847]

Maestro Schiff illuminates the sonata with a well deserved light.

[@esauponce9759]

Thank you for uploading this lectures!

[@jeanvanderstegen]

WHAT A LECTURE !!!! the end, waouwwwwwww

[@cristinecarpena6322]

Absolutely wonderful! Another level.

[@fungalbob]

Thankyou for this

[@agseu3668]

Magnífico.

[@user-hs2fj7vk9m]

32:27 3rd mov

[@somasabul3883]

If you were transcribing the 1st of E major, where would you put the bar lines? Interesting, I think, why it starts on an "upbeat."

[@andrewkimpiano]

22:47 second movement

[@militaryandemergencyservic3286]

19:53-20:06 - almost exactly like in the e flat op 126...

[@Orlando-t6w]

12:34

[@borisrizhamdze1230]

12:35

[@somasabul3883]

Why the need to be disparaging to musicologist? Not necessary.

[@OpenmusicEs]

Absolutely agreed! No need to be derogatory about a profession that is to music what critics is to literature. Musicology only exists in the realms of musicology itself, it does not belong to music.

[@MrKlemps]

There is no gratuitous disparagement of musicologists in that Schiff merely cites an example of what, for him and for most people who really listen to music, is a conspicuously wrong-headed idea: Beethoven's final piano sonata us a fragment, an incomplete work. This is not an unnecessary or unjustified criticism. It is not harsh; if anything it is understated. Mann's writing about Op. 111 is surely a high watermark in the history of writing about music and Schiff is right in saying so.

[@somasabul3883]

@@MrKlemps Still, I wonder who are these musicologists? I spent lots of time talking about 109, 110, 111 with my favorite musicologists and they didn’t mention or describe fragments?? It's like saying 'people are saying' as proof for something or other. The sarcasm, mild as it is, at 29 min is just beneath a talent like Schiff. I like your 'recovering ...' which describes me as well and yes we agree.

[@MrKlemps]

As a "recovering musicologist", I have no dog in the fight apart from reaffirming the completeness of Beethoven's Op. 111. I think we agree on that.