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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- The Sonata Tragica opens intensely, with powerful Germanic pull. Its remorseless incline to the overwhelming is immediately undercut by a very skittish Scherzo (and the notes aver unconvincing in the context of the Sonata as a whole, with which opinion I have to agree). The re-imposition of Schumannesque-Lisztian power comes in the romanticised legato of the slow movement, topped by an "eroico" finale of rather more energy than real direction.
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MOVEMENTS:
00:00 - I. Largo maestoso
08:20 - II. Molto allegro, vivace
11:08 - III. Largo con maestà
19:14 - IV. Allegro eroico
Original audio: • MacDowell: Piano Sonat...
Score: vmirror.imslp.o...
yooo i've been eagerly waiting for this sonata thank you!
Glad you found it useful! I am now working on the 2nd sonata video, and when it's complete I'll publish a video with all 4 sonatas.
Maybe you’ve done this already, but you should listen closely to his 2nd piano concerto. That might give you more insight and appreciation for why the second movement in this sonata is written the way it is.
Hey! Yes, I have listened to his 2nd piano concerto. In fact, it was the first work I ever heard from MacDowell. But it's been some time since I did and I didn't listen to it particularly closely. Thanks for the advice!
Are those runs indicated by small notes? What other purpose is in making small notes?
Hey. Which part are you talking about?
If you mean 0:41, then "small" notes are considered grace notes, or appogiatura. They don't count as structural parts of the measure. You can put in as many as you want as long as you keep the lengths of "big" notes to fill in the measure.
legibility
@@johnbeuck -- Yes, of course....Legibility, Nuance & Disambiguation....BRAVO from Acapulco......
who’s the interpreter?
Alan Mandel
Sounds like if early Scriabin blended with the worst parts of Liszt.
Really bad form for something like a sonata.
curious how so?