Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 25 in G major Op. 79
Daniel Barenboim
Musical Performance Solo / Piano 0Beethoven’s piano sonatas encompass epically expansive dimensions as well as, with the Sonata in G major from 1809, an elegantly compressed architecture. In fact, Op. 79 is among the shortest of the composer’s 32 sonatas, its three movements together lasting less than 10 minutes. Yet for all its brevity, this “Sonatina” contains a bracing number of fresh ideas that recall the invention of Haydn while looking ahead to early-Romantic fantasy. The G-minor second movement, for example, conjures a pair of lovers duetting on a Venetian gondola during the night. Beethoven looks forward to his own later work with the concise, deliciously subdued Vivace finale, whose harmonic sequence reappears in the opening of the E-major Sonata, Op. 109 of 1820.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)
Piano Sonata in G major Op. 79 (1809)
I. Presto alla tedesca
II. Andante
III. Vivace
Daniel Barenboim, piano
Piano
Daniel Barenboim
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