1. He began by analyzing part of one movement of a Mozart piano sonata with Ilana Vered at the keyboard. 2. I have difficulty asking my students to play even the Bartok violin and piano sonatas. 3. In that earlier study, college students were shown to temporarily gain up to nine IQ points after listening to a Mozart piano sonata. 4. In the light of his later music the early piano sonatas and D minor Piano Concerto can seem overwrought. 5. Moncton, meanwhile, plays piano sonatas along a stretch of the main street as a way of scaring off packs of teenaged troublemakers. 6. Nowhere is his double personality more evident than in his remarkable cycle of piano sonatas. 7. Of course, there is more riding on whether an opera is done right than on whether, say, a piano sonata is done right. 8. Shaham dimly recalls hearing his parents once play a Beethoven violin and piano sonata together. 9. The later piano sonatas are ablaze with precisely fashioned cluster chords and violent dynamic contrasts. 10. The pianist or the piano sonata? |