Best performance of this piece (to my taste) that I've ever heard, through and through -- notwithstanding a little brain cramp in the first phrase of the last movement! (Or is it maybe a textual variant? Doubt it but you never know.) The piece so easily can sound pedestrian even in great hands. This performance makes it be everything.
I don't understand this piece of music. It's certainly beautiful music but it seems to lack virtuosity and connection between the movements. In a way it's like the second Chopin sonata: a collection of beautiful pieces strung together and called a sonata.
@@republiccooper To your former point, I would presume you have a general distaste toward the Mozart sonatas. To the latter, perhaps enjoyment is lost beyond Beethoven, which would be an unfortunate fate. The sonata form is only that, a form that is imposed as a categorization, a label of sorts. It need not be followed if there exists a belief in creativity, which I believe is a necessity of and necessitated by art. I would tend to agree that this sonata is less mature than his others, but that does not mean interpretation is lost.
As one of my music professors always said before recitals, "It's almost always better to capture a great artistic performance than a great technical, error-free exhibition."
I agree, this is an enviable rendition and, although the general shaping is quite awkward for Schubert's, the result is masterful, because there is nothing somewhat arbitrary. Geza Anda is undoubtedly uncovering the meaning of music with sensitiveness, without missing the point. Nothing seems rushed, nothing seems dull, and that's amazing.
Hi, I don't know many sonatas, but what about Beethoven Sonata no. 17 'The Tempest'? I played the first movement a few years ago and I guess it was a little bit easier than this one. Then there is Schumann Sonata No. 1 Op. 11 and Schubert Sonata in A minor, they are both really beautiful as well but I think they are a bit more difficult
I've played this, so... Artist inserts a lot of fermatas, especially at the commencement of right-hand triplets in 1rst movement (the lead triplet on downbeat after some measures not containing triplets). Does some of it in 2nd movement, too. Think he's being artistic. Not sure they were worth it, musically.
it's on dipabrsm syllabus, am currently studying it. first and second movements pretty straightforward, third movement is quite challenging in that it needs much control
