Watch pianist Kira Nickerson perform Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #17 in D Minor, “Tempest.” Watch Kira Nickerson's full performance of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata #17 in D Minor, “Tempest.” Kira, a pianist ...
It's said that when Beethoven was asked what this sonata was about he angrily replied "ready Shakespeare's Tempest!". Listen out for the beginning of the third movement; an emotional passage that ...
Ludwig van Beethoven by Stieler Joseph Karl Stieler (Public Domain) Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer of Classical and Romantic music; he is widely regarded as one of the greatest musicians to have ever lived. Most famous for his nine symphonies, piano concertos, piano sonatas, and string quartets, Beethoven was a great innovator and very probably the most influential ...
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BBC: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 (Tempest)
Compared to the vivacious lightness of touch in the first, G major Sonata of Op. 31, the second is, as its nickname suggests, a stormy work. The name, as so often in Beethoven's piano sonatas, was not ...
Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 (Tempest)
From the early Op. 2 set of sonatas to the famous 'Moonlight', find out why Beethoven's piano sonatas broke the mould - and hear from pianists themselves about how they approach performing them.