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  • Looking within the sonata's mighty inner conflicts, one finds the most daring structural innovation in large-form composition since Beethoven.

    Radical Romanticism David Dubal 2012

  • Uchida gave an almost classical strictness to the sonata's opening movement, before turning the scherzo into a fleet, almost dreamlike vision, colouring the modulations of the Largo quite magically, and romping exuberantly through the rondo finale.

    Mitsuko Uchida Andrew Clements 2010

  • But in the context of the sonata's overall dramatic arc — the end of the development, the transformation of the exposition's dominant into the recapitulation's tonic — all that minutiae becomes the tricky camera shots and throwaway jokes that make the ride so much fun.

    Fancy paints on memory's canvas/Scenes that we hold dear Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • But in the context of the sonata's overall dramatic arc — the end of the development, the transformation of the exposition's dominant into the recapitulation's tonic — all that minutiae becomes the tricky camera shots and throwaway jokes that make the ride so much fun.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • The sonata's first movement was turbulent, while remaining appropriately balanced, and the slow second movement was poetic rather than sentimental, with Bailey producing a warmly expressive tone on his highest string.

    Music review: Zuill Bailey and Orion Weiss at the Kennedy Center 2010

  • News at Eleven: The black man's perceived affront so angered Beethoven that he destroyed the sonata's dedication to Bridgetower and renamed it the "Kreutzer Sonata," thereby consigning the violinist to a life of fading obscurity.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • One of my favorite sets, and one of the really great bargains out there, is Orfeo's collection of Mozart piano sonata's from the Salzburger Festspiele.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

  • One of my favorite sets, and one of the really great bargains out there, is Orfeo's collection of Mozart piano sonata's from the Salzburger Festspiele.

    A note in favor of an excellent set Patrick J. Smith 2007

  • No.3 in D major, or part of it, has recently been orchestrated - Dan Hope and Sebastian Knauer recorded it with Norrington as a concerto for violin and piano - and having just bashed through the A major concerto K488, to see whether I could, I can vouch for the fact that this violin sonata's piano part is much harder to play!

    Archive 2005-12-01 Jessica 2005

  • No.3 in D major, or part of it, has recently been orchestrated - Dan Hope and Sebastian Knauer recorded it with Norrington as a concerto for violin and piano - and having just bashed through the A major concerto K488, to see whether I could, I can vouch for the fact that this violin sonata's piano part is much harder to play!

    WAM! Jessica 2005

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