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7 Bagatelles Op.33 No. 5. Allegro ma non troppo
One of my favorite B. bagatelles - playful, humorous but serious. Near the end (around 2:19) it sounds as if Beethoven was testing a "sticky" key. So bizarre....yet it sounds so perfect where it is.
Sviatoslav Richter on piano here performs the following:
1. Op. 33 No. 5
2. Op. 33 No. 3
3. Op. 119 No. 7
4. Op. 119 No. 9
5. Op. 126 No. 1
Live recording, 1959, a really sublime set.
3 Marches for Piano, Four Hands Op.45 - No. 2 In E Flat Major, Vivace
Pianos: Frank Zabel - Stefan Thomas
I haven't found any good videos of this march for 4-hands so I just threw one together....
The trio section (starting at 2:52) has a very cool bass "rumble" motif, followed by an odd "chutes and ladders" arpeggio...
The Bagatelle Op. 119/7 seems modern music with its trills in the first bars... Op. 126/1 is one of the deepest piano pieces ever composed.
ReplyDeleteMany of Beethoven's later works express complex emotions which I don't think could be easily expressed in words. Opus 111's finale leaves me really stunned speechless :)
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