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Berg - Sonata
on: July 14, 2007, 05:14:11 PM
Live 4/7-07

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Re: Berg sonata
Reply #1 on: July 14, 2007, 05:16:39 PM
So, one more Berg sonata in a short time for you guys... hope you enjoy it. You have to skip about a minute and 20 seconds as there is presentation and applause in the beginning, I cant fix that at the moment.

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Re: the Berg sonata (again)
Reply #2 on: July 14, 2007, 07:53:34 PM
Great job.  You really followed all those complex score markings well, and you had good sound quality.  Nice performance. 

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Re: the Berg sonata (again)
Reply #3 on: July 14, 2007, 08:06:47 PM
thanks a lot! I'll have to listen to your recording later too, but at the moment my connection is so slow, I have to wait for a while.. would be great to read your 185-page paper on this piece by the way!

About the "complex score" - I guess you have to work on the piece from time to time; there are always new markings that you didn't notice the previous time you were studying it. But on the other hand, I feel that most of Bergs markings come naturally.
I learned it over half a year ago and felt I wanted to work on it again and finally play it in concert. The recording was taken from a student concert at a course I went to for Liisa Pohjola (teacher at the Sibelius academy in helsinki). You probably noticed the memory slip near the end - luckily I let my hands keep playing and I eventually found a way to continue..

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Re: the Berg sonata (again)
Reply #4 on: July 14, 2007, 11:15:49 PM
I'd love for you to read my paper.  I'm getting it ready for publication at the moment, so we may have to wait.  But let's keep in touch about it.

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Re: the Berg sonata (again)
Reply #5 on: July 17, 2007, 06:28:31 PM
speaking of Berg, I've heard that there are a few more piano pieces that most people aren't aware of - does anyone know more about this? it's possible that they are more sketches than actual pieces though, but I'm interrested - the piano sonata is the only thing he published for solo piano.

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Re: the Berg sonata (again)
Reply #6 on: July 17, 2007, 09:00:20 PM
speaking of Berg, I've heard that there are a few more piano pieces that most people aren't aware of - does anyone know more about this? it's possible that they are more sketches than actual pieces though, but I'm interrested - the piano sonata is the only thing he published for solo piano.

There's that piano concerto...ish piece.


It's actually not all that good.  It's like piano+chamber with an emphasis on piano.  Sounds a lot like bad Carter.

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Re: the Berg sonata (again)
Reply #7 on: July 28, 2007, 10:19:41 PM
I'll check it out... but I was thinking about solopiano music. Then we have the four clarinet+piano-pieces which I REALLY like too...

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Re: the Berg sonata (again)
Reply #8 on: August 28, 2007, 02:20:54 PM
Just a small update: deleted the 1 and a half minute presentation before the performance.

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Re: Berg - Sonata
Reply #9 on: October 24, 2007, 09:19:10 AM
I like your performance of the Berg very much. I'm not a big fan of this type of music (I'm more of a tonal person), but I have got an open mind, hence why I listened to it. It sounds rather aggressive in places, but I suppose the spirit of the music requires this. Well constructed.

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Re: Berg - Sonata
Reply #10 on: October 24, 2007, 06:00:41 PM
I'm not a big fan of this type of music (I'm more of a tonal person)

This piece is tonal, hence the title "Sonata in B minor".

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Re: Berg - Sonata
Reply #11 on: June 09, 2008, 11:05:50 AM
This piece is tonal, hence the title "Sonata in B minor".

Oh!

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Re: Berg - Sonata
Reply #12 on: June 10, 2008, 12:02:08 AM
Oh!

Hahaha genius ... digging up an old thread to say : Oh!  ;D

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Re: Berg - Sonata
Reply #13 on: June 10, 2008, 01:07:29 AM
This piece is tonal, hence the title "Sonata in B minor".

While we've resurrected this, I may as well point out that it is simply titled "Sonata."

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Re: Berg - Sonata
Reply #14 on: June 11, 2008, 05:24:27 PM
While we've resurrected this, I may as well point out that it is simply titled "Sonata."

And you are correct.  As many of you know, I have a book about this sonata currently under consideration to be published.  And I can tell you this piece is mostly free atonality.  There is a cadence in B minor at the beginning and at the end, but only a handful of faint hints at tonality other than that.
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