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Beethoven
Llŷr Williams piano
Date
Wed 13 Jan 2016, 7.30pm
Duration
This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval
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Artists

  • Llŷr Williamspiano

Programme

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    1770-1827
      • Piano Sonata No. 20 in G Op. 49 No. 2
      • Funeral March Op. 26
      • Pathétique Op. 13

Interval

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    1770-1827
      • Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor Op. 49 No. 1
      • 15 Variations and a Fugue on an Original Theme in E flat 'Eroica Variations' Op. 35

Encore

  • Ludwig van Beethoven
    1770-1827
      • 7 Bagatelles Op. 33
        :
      • VI. Bagatelle No. 6 in D major
      • VII. Bagatelle No. 7 in A flat major

Overview

In 1805, Beethoven, in search of much-neededincome, chose to publish two early pianosonatas as his Op. 49.

These brief piecesstand at the centre of the latest recital inLlŷr Williams’s Beethoven Piano Sonata Cycle,creating space for contemplation and reposebetween the impassioned romanticism of the‘Pathétique’ and the Promethean striving andenergy of the ‘Eroica Variations’.

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