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Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1

1. Allegro

2. Adagio

3. Menuetto. Allegretto

4. Prestissimo

Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111

Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata in D Minor, K. 9

Mikhail Glinka, The Lark

Frédéric Chopin, Three Mazurkas, Op. 63

No. 3 in C-sharp minor

Mikhail Pletnev performs Beethoven

Verbier Festival 2021

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Mikhail Pletnev — Pianist

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The Verbier Festival continues on medici.tv straight from the gorgeous Salle des Combins with a remarkable solo recital: virtuoso pianist Mikhail Pletnev performs the very last and very first piano sonatas by Beethoven.

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 1 (written in 1795) broke with several compositional conventions of the day, written in a contemplative minor key at a time when major-key works predominated, comprising four movements instead of the usual three, and finishing with a ferocious Prestissimo rather than a lighter final movement. Twenty-seven years and countless watershed moments later, Beethoven composed his 32nd and final piano sonata. Following a mixed reception for its two-movement structure and its monstrous difficulty, it has since garnered a reputation as an essential work by an essential composer, with a lively and dynamic first movement and the contrasting Arietta, slow and peaceful, that leads into an increasingly complicated set of variations.

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