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Perspectives on Beethoven
Perspectives presents an ambitious expansion of what might be thought a more conventional Beethoven Piano Sonata “cycle.” In a series of recitals that bring other solo piano works together with Beethoven’s thirty-two Sonatas, Perspectives features not only the Sonatas themselves but explores the affinities between Beethoven’s compositional expression and the music of others who came before and after.
The idea of the Perspectives approach came about as a natural extension of Andreas Haefliger’s artistic journey through the Sonatas as a performer and my own coinciding interest in Beethoven’s music as a point of arrival and departure. This journey has inspired both personal programmatic ideas about Beethoven’s works and an ever-renewed appreciation of their pure musical expression.
The piano was Beethoven’s instrument of choice when it came to establishing his unique personal language. Twenty of the Sonatas date from his “early period,” the first ten years of his life as a composer when he was seeking a mode of self-_expression and working to define his compositional voice. The later Sonatas, written in the last intensely creative years of his life, represent a marked departure from Beethoven’s previous style: these are works informed by his preoccupation with his own inner emotional conscience; they are also harbingers of the future.
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