Jean Sibelius - Piano Sonata in F major, Op 12 (Howard)
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- This sonata is absolutely ingenious and full of Nordic delight and charm. Howard made a deeply sensitive performance.
0:00 - I
5:50- II
12:48 - III
Pf: Leslie Howard - Hudba
This was a really nice recording. Sibelius composed some brilliant works for the piano that are underappreciated and underrated IMHO.
This piece can easily become muddled without a refined technique. Your tremolos were beautifully controlled and really let the right hand draw out the melody.
If I might offer comment on the second movement. You may already know this but theme came from an unfinished choral work that was set against an excerpt from The Kalevala which is a Finnish epic poem. The text is from "The Birth Of The Harp" which describes the protagonists struggle for mastery of his ship and safe passage along various seas, rivers, oceans as they encounter potential dangerous features such as whirlpools, waterfalls, icebergs etc. The protagonist is in conflict with nature and pleads for divine assistance and guidance. Ultimately he is resigned to his failure and fate, death.
Because this source material was so integral to Sibelius' unfinished piece, I am of the opinion that the performance should be influenced by this as much as the composers notation. The repetition and variation of the themes should reflect the confidence, struggle and ultimate defeat.
I will say this, you showed awesome restraint in the arpeggiated middle section. You drew out the melody, slowed down a bit and allowed that slow boil to grow. So many other performances fail to accomplish that. I just feel there that much drama in the other sections as well :)
I hope I didn't offend you.
This is not my playing, but Leslie Howard’s. Thank you for your comment :)
Do you realise that you're lecturing Leslie Howard, bro??
Beautiful :) !
独創的、且つ秀逸なソナタ🤗🎹🎵
I studied two years ago this marvelous Sonata, even though I still haven't performed or recorded it, but it's a soon-to-come. The second movement it's a true masterpiece, but I also like the colours and the atmosphere of the first, which unfortunately has been dismissed by many critics, because its not extremely comfortable keyboard écriture. A poor reason to dismiss such a masterpiece.
interesting piece... anyways, happy bday sibelius :P
This sounds more like a symphony for piano than a piano sonata.
Not that I'm complaining.
Indeed!
7:36 Beethoven 7
Much more interesting than Grieg's one!
7:32 nice
Indeed
Beautiful
By 0:39, it was getting more and more exciting and exploding with bones in the octave.Also, you have to have a really big hand ...(You can let go of your hand)
This song is a good song, but you have to have big hands in various places.
It has the same orchestral qualities as my own music.
Howard was a liszt researcher, so I thought he would only play the liszt.
He doesn't like me that much.
But he is a Liszt researcher (Chief Executive Officer).And he is also a performer who plays all the songs on the liszt.
I think it's great also he shows other pieces
@@vandemuntalfredo9092 While he has recorded the complete works of Liszt, his musical knowledge of all other composers is equally boundless.