Beethoven's Sonatas
N the past few months 4YC has delighted us frequently with sonata programmes, one always on Friday nights, and others at different times during the week. Many, if not most of these programmes, contain a sonata by Beethoven, a thing I should not cavil at, were it not so frequently the same sonata. The pianoforte sonata, Opus 26, has been given us now at least five times since Christmas, and a close runner-up is Opus 31, No. 3, as are the Waldstein and the Appassionata. These have surely earned an honourable, if temporary, retirement, while the other 28 pianoforte -and the ‘cello, and the less well-known violin and piano sonatas-have their turn, Better still, perhaps, let us have another series of all the sonatas in chronological order, thus at one. stroke relieving the strain on the programme organisers’ memories, and giving the listener the satisfaction of having been able to hear all the works at least once.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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159Beethoven's Sonatas New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 11
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