They shared a love of music and they would play violin sonatas together, Einstein on the violin and Born on piano. |
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Brahms bookended the concert with the first of the op. 120 sonatas in F minor. |
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It would have been wonderful if Serkin had recorded all thirty-two Beethoven piano sonatas when he was in his prime, but it was not to be. |
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Apart from these three suites, there are two piano sonatas and just a handful of smaller works. |
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Some of his chamber works are the eight string quartets, two piano trios, two piano quintets, a piano quartet and sonatas for violin and cello. |
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Some keyboard divertimentos have accompaniments for other instruments, as do many contemporary keyboard sonatas. |
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As Nicholas Daniel observed, Poulenc had a sure understanding of wind instruments, composing solo sonatas for each of them, except the bassoon. |
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The solution to the problem is that Corelli's Concerti Grossi are central to the string repertoire but not so much the sonatas. |
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Never one to miss a business opportunity, Brahms also arranged the sonatas for viola, and I first heard them in this form. |
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His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas. |
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For me, the violin and the cello sonatas share many of the glories of that cycle. |
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In each of the 12 sonatas the first movement is the more formally complex and more classical of the two. |
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These six works, written in a year, are in a direct line from Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas. |
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He was a prolific composer, writing symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and dramatic works. |
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His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas. |
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These performances of the three late sonatas too have a fine, confident sweep and display Pizarro's easy, fluent virtuosity. |
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This reminds me very strongly of the energetic string crossing in the op. trio sonatas of Buxtehude for violin, viola da gamba and continuo. |
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With the cello suites and the solo violin sonatas and partitas, they form a triptych of Bach at his most concentrated and intimate. |
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By 1800 Beethoven was writing more orchestral music, and the sonatas began to break away from the symphonic mould. |
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The Beethoven sonatas, recorded two years later in Munich, sound considerably better. |
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The programme for the evening comprises four of the ten sonatas Beethoven composed for piano and violin. |
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His interpretations of Beethoven are remarkably vigorous, plumbing the depths of the darker later sonatas while retaining a strong hint of the vigour of early Beethoven. |
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Often, at pedagogy conferences, we witness prodigiously talented fourteen-year-olds taking a master lesson in huge pieces like Prokofiev sonatas or Chopin scherzos. |
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Reports on fleet movements were forwarded by him to Paris through an Italian dealer in sheet music, who interleaved the documents with his sonatas. |
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He was also the first Bolognese composer to publish solo violin sonatas. |
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Although Kuhlau wrote an extensive number of ambitious sonatas and variations, his piano music has become practically synonymous with his sonatinas. |
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If piano students are playing Mozart and Haydn sonatas, Chopin nocturnes and Debussy preludes, they certainly are capable of playing some chamber music repertoire. |
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Contrary to popular belief his op. 5 sonatas are not solo works but duos for violin and violone, which, like the opp. 2 and 4 dance suites, require no keyboard accompaniment. |
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For instance, two of his sonatas, one for violin, gamba and continuo and the other for two violins, gamba and continuo contain similarly decorated cadential material. |
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These six sonatas reflect Bach's increased interest in the harpsichord. |
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Avison is best remembered for transcribing many of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas for chamber orchestra, and that set of works has been recorded numerous times. |
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He would often make me sit with him to listen to Don Giovanni, or the piano sonatas and fantasies, as if there were great secrets to share in the music. |
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Balbastre's early keyboard pieces have descriptive titles in the manner of Couperin and Rameau, but he gradually turned to writing sonatas in the galant style. |
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After the Brahms and the Haydn he learned three preludes and fugues of Bach, two Beethoven sonatas, a nocturne by Chopin, and pieces by Schumann and Ravel. |
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The programme includes instrumental trio sonatas and alto and soprano cantatas. |
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The programme features three trio sonatas by Handel and one each by Venetian-born composers Caldara and Vivaldi. |
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The two trio sonatas don't really have enough tonal variety, while the Fugue la Gigue needs more of a spring in its step. |
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The Suites are Bach's only work for unaccompanied cello, a masterpiece companion to his sonatas and partitas for solo violin. |
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There is more outstanding fiddling in the Bach sonatas and Partitas played on two discs by Alina Ibragimova, released by Hyperion. |
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Benda wrote a series of sonatas, sonatinas and concertos for keyboard instruments, seven of which were printed. |
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Thought to date from around 1720, the violin sonatas and partitas took the instrument beyond its known limits. |
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Bach, works by Michael Praetorius and William Brade, and early canzonas and sonatas for violin and sackbut by Dario Castello and Giulio Belli. |
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He mimed Tchaikovsky and Gounod, the Beethoven piano sonatas, the symphonies of Haydn, the operas of Pergolesi and Glinka. |
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It even contains charts for analysis of forms of rondos, sonatinas and sonatas. |
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In addition to approximately 160 trio sonatas and solo capriccios, Frantisek Benda wrote numerous violin concertos, of which some twenty-eight have been discovered. |
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Numbered among his students is Antonio Vivaldi, who later composed hundreds of works based on the principles in Corelli's trio sonatas and concerti. |
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