Beethoven | Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-flat major | Daniel Barenboim 

It is my favorite melody. A hymn or a love song? God spoke to him.

I love it, too! It's just so warm, and lovely.

Warm and lovely? Are you serious? This is one of the darkest sonatas. There is a reason it is called funeral march.

Only the third movement and a bit of the first are funereal. Overall, this sonata's spirit is more lively than dark. The fourth movement rondo positively sparkles.

I'm perplexed people can misunderstand the character of a piece so badly. The fourth movement is anything but "sparkles". A good description I heard is "raindrops falling on the coffin" or "people having a quiet conversation after the funeral".

John Reel describes the fourth movement as brisk and bright. Not too far off from my "sparkles" metaphor. The spirited dynamics and tempo don't suggest "people having a quiet conversation after the funeral." You seem to think of the entire sonata as funereal, but it is not. The first movement has been called an exploration of process and of happiness. William Kinderman, in the liner notes of my Brendel CD of this sonata, describes some of the thematic variations in the first movement as "playful." It's odd that you believe people "misunderstand the character of a piece so badly" while, presumably, your interpretation is the only correct one. Music is art. Inevitably, it will resonate differently with each individual. That's part of its power.

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Damit sprechen Sie mir aus der Seele. Von allen Interpreten, die Beethovens Sonaten komplett eingespielt haben, kommen Baarenboims Interpretationen meinem persönlichen Geschmack am nächsten. Er ist ein Zauberer. Bei ihm sind die Kompositionen des Genius in guten Händen.

Orwell said nothing about your performing Beethoven piano sonatas in 1984.

@@stephendasilva8679 It helped pass the time in the ministry of love 😉

the scherzo which is the hardest part of the whole thing he plays at breakneck speed and the third variation he plays really fast the parts most slow down and really slow the parts people speed up because they're easier .

Yes!

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I wouldn't call ending with a rondo-finale a departure from the tradition of the sonata...

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Such nonsense. The contrarian, contentious tone is amusing, though.

@@stephendasilva8679 Glad it's amusing nonsense. Something to be said for that ; )

If Beethoven was alive he’d take his silk glove off and let you have it.

@@vqro00 He'd be so drunk and so riddled with syphilis that he'd probably take off his filthy socks instead.

Have you become a composer yourself and wrote something better?

I totally agree. His Mozart Piano Concerto's I didn't listen to (being a Uchida fan) until I finally gave in and bought the set, and as you say his attentiveness lifts certain passages, and even accents them. Slight (non-Mozart) pauses bring a certain character that is very much 'Barenboim'. Similar to Gould on Bach.

Mais pourquoi ils n'ont pas joué la marche funèbre de Chopin ?

@@JEANVIPEREporque murió Beethoveen no Chopin, estilos muy diferentes para empezar jaja

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