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They shared a love of music and they would play violin sonatas together, Einstein on the violin and Born on piano.
Brahms bookended the concert with the first of the op. 120 sonatas in F minor.
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.
Apart from these three suites, there are two piano sonatas and just a handful of smaller works.
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.
Some keyboard divertimentos have accompaniments for other instruments, as do many contemporary keyboard sonatas.
As Nicholas Daniel observed, Poulenc had a sure understanding of wind instruments, composing solo sonatas for each of them, except the bassoon.
The solution to the problem is that Corelli's Concerti Grossi are central to the string repertoire but not so much the sonatas.
Never one to miss a business opportunity, Brahms also arranged the sonatas for viola, and I first heard them in this form.
His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas.
For me, the violin and the cello sonatas share many of the glories of that cycle.
In each of the 12 sonatas the first movement is the more formally complex and more classical of the two.
These six works, written in a year, are in a direct line from Bach's solo violin sonatas and partitas.
He was a prolific composer, writing symphonies, concertos, sonatas, and dramatic works.
His compositions comprise mainly chamber music, including string quartets and accompanied keyboard sonatas.
These performances of the three late sonatas too have a fine, confident sweep and display Pizarro's easy, fluent virtuosity.
This reminds me very strongly of the energetic string crossing in the op. trio sonatas of Buxtehude for violin, viola da gamba and continuo.
With the cello suites and the solo violin sonatas and partitas, they form a triptych of Bach at his most concentrated and intimate.
By 1800 Beethoven was writing more orchestral music, and the sonatas began to break away from the symphonic mould.
The Beethoven sonatas, recorded two years later in Munich, sound considerably better.
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It is possible that for the times in which they were composed, the sonatas of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven were most pianistic.
Most exquisite of sonatas would not to them make up for a game of billiards!
There are also sonatas for violin and for 'cello with piano, and a piano scherzo.
During the seventeenth century, sonatas were written for various instruments, with a figured bass for the cembalo.
The two young men enjoyed themselves for some while, playing first a suite by Cesti, and then two early sonatas by Buononcini.
This is the only one of the sonatas which, as abstract music, would be satisfactory without any programme.
These sonatas and the passacaglia were written for his young son, W. Friedemann, to practise on the pedal clavichord.
And, besides, Kuhnau prided himself on the fugal character of his sonatas.
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