Type: Piano Solo
Location: Berlin State Opera House
Soloist: Daniel Barenboim
Composer: Beethoven
Year: 1984
This is one of Beethoven's most unusual, moving, and structurally innovative sonatas and Barenboim’s interpretation brings out its poetic depth. The piece is deeply personal, and introspective, filled with tenderness and quiet nobility, not stormy outbursts. Unlike typical sonatas of the time, No. 12 does not begin with a fast sonata-allegro movement. It opens with a quiet, reflective exploration moving to the third movement with a rare and powerful funeral march and a fast, brilliant finale.
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Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 13
Type: Classical Piano
Soloist: Daniel Barenboim
Location: Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
Year: 1984Barenboim highlights the work’s distinctive design. The sonata unfolds as a continuous sequence rather than a set of clearly separated movements and Barenboim preserves this sense of flow without ...
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Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14
Type: Classical Piano
Soloist: Daniel Barenboim
Location: Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
Year: 1984Daniel Barenboim resists the temptation to overstate one of Beethoven’s most familiar works. He maintains a steady pulse, allowing the music’s tension to gradually accumulate. The middle movement ...
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Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 15
Type: Piano Solo
Location: Baroque Palace of Vienna, Austria
Pianist: Daniel Barenboim
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Program: Piano Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 (“Pastoral”)
Year: 2016In his performance of Piano Sonata No. 15, Daniel Barenboim treats the work as a continuous line. T...
