Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
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Performers
Mitsuko Uchida, Piano
Program
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90
SCHOENBERG Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11
GYÖRGY KURTÁG "Márta ligaturája"
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960
Event Duration
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At a Glance
BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90
Beethoven’s contribution to the piano literature was as revolutionary in conception as in technique. In contrast to the brilliant, “heroic” style of his so-called middle period, the dramatic and highly compressed E-Minor Sonata of 1814 foreshadows the denser, knottier idiom of his late works.
SCHOENBERG Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11
In the first decade of the 20th century, Schoenberg gradually moved away from traditional tonality toward a musical language characterized by what he later called “the emancipation of the dissonance.” His Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11, composed in 1909, are some of the first works written in his new atonal idiom.
GYÖRGY KURTÁG “Márta ligaturája”
Hungarian composer György Kurtág has remained remarkably productive in his ninth decade. His first opera, Fin de partie, after the play by Samuel Beckett, premiered at La Scala in 2018, and three years later, he published the 10th volume of Játékok (Games), a long-running series of short piano pieces. “Márta ligaturája” pays tribute to the composer’s late wife.
SCHUBERT Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960
Schubert’s last three piano sonatas, composed in the months leading up to his untimely death, are notable for the grandeur of their conception. The first movement of the Sonata in B-flat Major is one of the composer’s most spacious musical structures, being almost as long as the other three movements combined.