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

András Schiff - Beethoven Lecture-Recitals
Wigmore Hall (London, UK), 2004-06
András Schiff last performed the complete Beethoven piano sonatas at Wigmore Hall from 2004-06 to overwhelming critical acclaim, with the editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger, describing one particular performance as ‘a riveting mixture of erudition, analysis, passion, wit and memory’.
On the day before each of the eight recitals in the series, the world-renowned pianist, pedagogue and lecturer gave a lecture-recital in which he explored the works to be performed. Deeply engaging and insightful, these thought-provoking lecture-recitals, recorded live at the Hall, are available below as eight audio lecture-recitals.
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[@matthewpiper6526]

No quick words for how much I appreciate this.

[@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.

[@jeanvanderstegen]

WHAT A LECTURE !!!! the end, waouwwwwwww

[@esauponce9759]

Thank you for uploading this lectures!

[@cristinecarpena6322]

Absolutely wonderful! Another level.

[@fungalbob]

Thankyou for this

[@agseu3668]

Magnífico.

[@user-hs2fj7vk9m]

32:27 3rd mov

[@andrewkimpiano]

22:47 second movement

[@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."

[@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.

[@ciaccona1]

Probably musicologists in the past, in the 1930's or 1940's, when Mann wrote his Doctor Faustus did think so. I believe that was Schiff's context which he didn't emphasize and might cause some misunderstanding.​@@somasabul3883