This underrated sonata is one of Beethoven's best, and HARDEST!
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Published 2024-06-28
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All Comments (21)
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When I saw the thumbnail, I instantly recognized it as Beethoven's 28th sonata despite the blur... Maybe I know these sonatas a bit too well...
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Sviatoslav Richter said this was the most difficult Beethoven sonata in his notebooks
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The first movement of this sonata is one of the most beautiful movements in all 32 sonatas in my opinion ❤
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Beethoven's piano fugues are just so amazing and unique
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for the last 30 years i've been more and more understanding all Beethoven sonatas, and finally realize that almost all Beethoven sonatas are equally good. I've been practice from op 79 and after that many years now i've leart to play 10-3, 13,22, 27-2, 31-2, 57, 78, 79, 81a, 110 wooo i'd never image i would learnt that much of them. All your Beethoven video really help me for a new thought about these piece. Thank you bro
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Nothing compares to Beethoven. Many of his sonatas have been dear to my heart for more than 70 years - independent of their interpreters ...
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Adore this sonata. I especially love how the first movement avoids the tonic for so long - A major is only confirmed late in the movement.
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Great video! I learned this Sonata this year, and the 4th movement with these thirds and fourths on both hands are an absolute nightmare
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Love this one - thanks for highlighting it!
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I really liked this video Ryan. I fell in love with Beethoven Sonatas when I was 15 with Wilhelm Kempff records. It started my love of classical piano. This sonata tends to be overlooked. I'm guilty. But thanks to you, you brought me back to appreciate just how beautiful that 1st movement is. I think I'll go back and practice it. Thanks.
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You know you‘re a pianist when you look at that blurry score in the thumbnail and instantly know which sonata it is, as quickly as you‘d recognize the face of your mother.
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I just found your channel, and I'm so pleased! You play beautifully, and explain things in a very clear way. BRAVO!
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I’m obsessed with my late teacher’s recording of this sonata. Mark Westcott. I didn’t love it as much until I heard his rendition. It made me realize how difficult it is to pull this off, and that I’d been missing the mark with Beethoven. I understood the structure, but not the humanity intertwined with it.
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Interesting. Thanks, Ryan! I’m not a pianist, but as a listener, this is my second favorite of all the sonatas (surpassed only by the Pastoral). I love it so much, and am surprised this is one of the most difficult. I also agree about the first movement being hard to bring off, interpretively.
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The first movement starts on the dominant, avoids the tonic to land on the dominant, then modulates to the dominant for the secondary theme area, then, again starting on the dominant, takes off into a wandering development section, rushes towards the tonic in the recapitulation and seems to miss, goes around again and finally lands in the tonic at the end.
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Thanks for posting me myself. I don't get a lot of chance to play classical piano, but I'm always looking at it to analyze the chord structures
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I played this for my masters graduation concert. It is ridiculously difficult and also beautiful. I said I would take at least a 10 year break from it, but recently I've been thinking of bringing it back, only 10 months later 😅 Altough it would probably be wiser to learn 110 instead.
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This is my favorite sonata!! For some reason it's not played lot and doesn't get the recognition it deserves... Too bad i can't play it yet because the last movement is so hard (decided to go with op 31 no 3) :( but i hope i will be able to in the future
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Recently played the first movement of the op 110 for my exams ! It was SO FUN learning it, highly reccomend especially since no one plays it XDDDD
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I've heard that, from No. 28 to No. 32, these are classified into Beethoven's Late Piano Sonatas. Marc-André Hamelin had played three last sonatas in the mid-2000s, and recently he's playing Hammerklavier Sonata (Op. 106). I really hope that he could record all these five Beethoven sonatas and release to the public...!!
