Beethoven: Sonata 32

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In this recital for piano, the Dutch-Catalan musician Albert Cano Smit explores divergent universes through pieces by the twentieth century’s best avant-garde composers (Messiaen, Ligeti) alongside works by Fanny Mendelssohn.

And Beethoven’s Sonata No 32, op. 111 is a case apart. A great deal has been written about it and Thomas Mann used the Bonn composer’s last sonata, his “New Testament,” as the central theme for his novel Doctor Faustus. And rightly so, given the piece’s formal freedom, a product of the composer’s revolutionary non-conformism.

Program

• Olivier Messiaen: “Le baiser de l’enfant Jésus” from Vingt regards sur l’enfant Jésus (1945) 11′
• György Ligeti: L’escalier du diable and White on White from Études (1985-2001) 11′
• Fanny Mendelssohn: Melodie, Op. 4 No. 2 (1847) 2′
• Fanny Mendelssohn: Über allen Gipfeln ist Ruh from Six Lieder, Op. 7, arr. Albert Cano Smit (1835) 2′
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 (1821-1822) 25′

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