Wilhelm Kempff - Beethoven - Piano Sonata No 15 in D major, Op 28

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@tsochengkimo 8 жыл бұрын

00:00 - I. Allegro 09:56 - II. Andante 15:33 - III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace 17:53 - IV. Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo

@music_pillow3246 9 жыл бұрын

So simple but so emotional preformance! His amazing!

@CarapuceShiney 5 жыл бұрын

The best sonata so far.

@AnonYmous-ry2jn 4 жыл бұрын

You got taste man! This sonata, and this performance, is in my view Beethoven’s absolute peak. It is a spiritual journey from dark to light, transcendence of the natural cycle of life and death to spiritual eternal life, transcendence of nature. B-minor, the predominant key of movement I (despite D major being the “official” key) represents the blackness of death, physical and spiritual, as in Bach’s Mass in B-minor, episodes in the Hammerklavier (darkest moment in slow movement just before giving way to D major), and it struggles toward the light of D major throughout, only reaching it with triumphant decisiveness in the final chord at the end of the sonata. Even the final movement underscores this point by inertially settling on a b-minor harmony it will have to tear free from to reach D major. This sonata is more than just music, it is Beethoven’s logical discourse on death and immortality. If you listen from beginning to end, Beethoven takes you through his argument, mostly through the various shades of darkness, till you are redeemed at the end. Make what you will of his implied theology, but the argument, building in the premises he establishes, is as compelling as any argument in music, which is just about purely what this is. Go with him for the ride, you will have journeyed with a very deep soul on an uplifting journey, one of ultimate hope. He may be wrong, he may be right, but he makes the best case he can with consummate musical integrity and poetry. Beethoven at his best. And Kempf uniquely understands, feels, and presents every molecule of this music. He may be the only pianist up to this level of connection with Beethoven. Like I said, you have good taste. It is the best of the Beethoven Sonatas. Hammerklavier may be “greater”, but this is the best.

@AnonYmous-ry2jn 3 жыл бұрын

@GOODSPEED LI yes I like number 12 a lot!!!!! Two things about it; I’m fairly certain Chopin greatly admired this as well (he famously disliked number 17, the Sonata immediately following the op.28 we both admire so much). One obvious thing Chopin has in common with Sonata 12 is they both have funeral marches on them, exquisite ones at that (I’m referring to Chopin’s 2nd Sonata of course); and both have 4 (including a scherzo in addition to the funeral March) movements. I think the finale of Beethoven’s resembles (and probably inspired) Chopin’s as well, in being a kind of “perpetual motion” style: a pretty continuous stream of uninterrupted notes with basically no rhythmic variety. In this respect the finales are actually extremely similar. Also extremely distinctive in the A-flat sonata is the first movement is a theme and variations movement (like Mozart’s famous A major sonata containing the Rondo alla Turca). So if you like this A-flat variation set, I guarantee you will love Beethoven’s op. 35 “Eroica Variations.” I’ve always really liked this A-flat sonata, but I casually knew an extremely sophisticated music expert, PhD from University of Chicago, who out of all the hundreds of Beethoven movements, considered the 1st movement of the A-flat Sonata his very favorite: and that means better than the Hammerklavier (usually considered Beethoven’s crowning achievement in Sonatas) and the string quartets and symphonies. Therefore however much I do love the Sonata, I consider it even better than I can probably perceive. Again, I think it was Chopin’s favorites, plus this expert I refer to. I think you have great taste!!!

@DerKommissarHerbertKeller Жыл бұрын

@@AnonYmous-ry2jn Very good!!! I feel the same. Greetings from Augsburg!