By last year, I had worked my way through Beethoven's piano sonatas up to the last 32. And from this year, I decided to work on No. 8 and No. 14, which I had not played before. I started with No. 8, "Pathetique. It seems to have been written when he was less than 30 years old, and it conveys a lively, direct feeling of colliding with something, completely different from the deep, calm emotion of his later years. The same "Pathetique" has a different spirit from the tragic atmosphere of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, which was written a hundred years later.
So, even though they are translated as "pathetique," they have very different meanings. The French word "Pathétique" seems to have many interpretations, so I think this is a good one.Number 26, "Farewell."As is the case with the "Grande Sonate pathétique", it is probably best not to assume that the title itself, translated into Japanese, tells the story of the music. The great master Beethoven did not give the title "Grande Sonate pathétique" in such a sense. It is just a title in Japanese, so we should just accept it as such.
My teacher suggested that we start with the second movement, then the third movement, and the first movement in that order. The first movement, which starts with an impressive "da-da-da-da" chord, was to be played from the viewpoint of how to move from the second movement (Adagio cantabile) to the third movement, whose tempo was increased, and how to enter the beautiful second movement.
As I mentioned before, I used Synthogy's Ivory3 as the sound source. This sound source allows you to control the hardness of the hammers, so I adjusted the hardness slightly lower.
Let's listen to it again in a little time...so please listen to it first.
Title: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.13 "Pathétique"
Sound Source: Synthogy Ivory3
Audio file format: mp3 (if you want to listen directly on your PC)reference(Please)