Musical Moments 5
CPMF Musical Moments
CACTUS PEAR MUSICAL MOMENT #5
On Saturday, July 20, 2019, at Trinity Baptist Church, cellist Jonah Kim
and pianist Scott Cuellar
captivated the audience
when they performed Fryderyk Chopin's 1846 Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65.
when they performed Fryderyk Chopin's 1846 Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65.
From CPMF's program annotator Jeffrey Sykes' 2019 summer festival notes …
The first movement of the sonata is monumental in scope, presenting a variety of themes and moods: music that’s majestic and heroic; other music that is simple, still, and expectant; and some that is dramatic, anguished, and virtuosic. It’s a testament to Chopin’s skill that all of these moods can be tied together so convincingly.... The sonata was premiered at Chopin’s last public concert in Paris on February 16, 1848. Auguste Franchomme, the dedicatee of the work and a close friend of Chopin, played the cello part.... [T]his sonata cost [Chopin] dearly, but it was clearly a work very close to his heart, a work he felt was worth the effort it took to complete. On his deathbed, he asked to hear the first movement of the sonata, but he found he could only bear to listen to the first few measures.
Enjoy listening to this exquisite performance of the first movement.
The first movement of the sonata is monumental in scope, presenting a variety of themes and moods: music that’s majestic and heroic; other music that is simple, still, and expectant; and some that is dramatic, anguished, and virtuosic. It’s a testament to Chopin’s skill that all of these moods can be tied together so convincingly.... The sonata was premiered at Chopin’s last public concert in Paris on February 16, 1848. Auguste Franchomme, the dedicatee of the work and a close friend of Chopin, played the cello part.... [T]his sonata cost [Chopin] dearly, but it was clearly a work very close to his heart, a work he felt was worth the effort it took to complete. On his deathbed, he asked to hear the first movement of the sonata, but he found he could only bear to listen to the first few measures.
Enjoy listening to this exquisite performance of the first movement.
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