Beethoven: Sonata No.9 in E major, Op.14 No.1 (Korstick, Yokoyama, Jumppanen)
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- The 9th Sonata isn’t well known, probably due to a combination of its relatively diminutive proportions and slight air of oddness, but it definitely deserves much more attention than it gets. The striking first movement is an excellent example of how a good development section (see also the 6th sonata, and to a lesser extent the 5th and 7th) does not really need to develop material to be effective - here, the relevant sense of tension is generated by the inclusion of a completely new theme in the development, the first truly lyrical moment in the sonata (and B., in the manuscript, actually writes, “without developing the theme”). The movement is also a classic example of B.’s motivic style: the first theme group consists of rising 4ths (over an E pedal), scales, and then arpeggios, while the second theme group begins with a naked descending and rising (chromatic) scale. It’s pretty extraordinary how much drama B. wrings from such humble material, often with the aid of some very beautiful quartet-like counterpoint. The second movement is notable for some of the rather late-Renaissance-ish harmonies B. uses, and the last movement is pretty funny: the main theme involves the rising RH getting hopelessly jammed on an A, while the LH continues making its way down the keyboard, happily ignoring whatever dissonance it generates against the note above. It’s also a nice example of B.’s skill at continuously developing a rondo’s theme with each recurrence, and the middle episode has a particularly pleasing concerto-like moment.
MVT I, Allegro
EXPOSITION
00:00 - Theme 1
00:19 - Transition, using Theme 1 with chromatically rising inner part. At 0:24 a new transition theme is introduced
00:34 - Theme Group 2, Theme 1. A single vocal line, descending diatonically and rising chromatically. Repeated with imitation.
00:58 - Theme Group 2, Theme 2.
01:10 - Theme Group 2, Theme 3.
01:27 - Cadential Theme, using Theme 1 under an inverted pedal
DEVELOPMENT
03:06 - Theme 1, moving into A min
03:13 - New Episodic Theme, which occurs no-where else in the piece. In the manuscript B. actually explicitly writes at this point, “without developing the theme” (meaning the sonata’s main themes). The texture here is eerily Schubertian - probably the first time something like this was written for piano.
03:37 - Theme 1, developed over 10 bars of dwelling on the dominant
RECAPITULATION
03:52 - Theme 1, now with forte scales in LH. At 4:10, a magical movement in to C maj, implied to be the Neapolitan of B min
04:17 - Transition
04:28 - Theme Group 2
05:21 - Cadential Theme
05:32 - CODA
MVT II, Allegretto
05:51 - A Section/minuet. The middle strain at 6:04 has a rather Renaissance feel. At 6:33 a codetta, using figuration from m.4 and with closing with an implied (and impossible) portamento at 6:42
06:43 - B Section/trio.
07:24 - A Section
08:16 - Coda, which deceptively begins like the trio
MVT III, Rondo: Allegro comodo
08:31 - Theme, modulating into B
08:58 - Episode 1
09:11 - Theme, modulating into G
09:31 - Episode 2, with a mini-cadenza at 9:44
10:15 - Theme, modulating into A
10:34 - Episode 1, modulating into F, before using a tritone switch to move into the home dominant
10:48 - Theme, with syncopation 
Видеоклипы
Korstick:
Mvt 1 - 00:00
Mvt 2 - 05:51
Mvt 3 - 08:31
Yokoyama:
Mvt 1 - 11:22
Mvt 2 - 17:58
Mvt 3 - 20:58
Jumppanen:
Mvt 1 - 24:01
Mvt 2 - 30:24
Mvt 3 - 34:04
Korstick’s rendition of this sonata is pretty fun: this is a relatively sedate sonata, but he treats it like the appassionata, with a relatively brisk tempo, lots of dramatic sweep, and really biting contrasts (listen to 0:24 and 1:10, for instance). It’s always nice to hear a sonata that’s often overlooked played with this kind of intensity. Yokoyama’s at the other end of the spectrum: in his hands this sonata is all cantabile sweetness, with the melodic lines having a kind of crystalline purity that’s quite rare to hear pianists achieve. Jumppanen is somewhere between these two poles: his interpretation is light on the use of pedal, with a focus on clarity and a particularly slow second movement; he’s more dramatic than Yokoyama and more relaxed than Korstick. The result is a rather festive, kind of earthy interpretation.
2nd movement heartbreaking really sad that this sonata isn't well known
thanks
Капец одни ремесленники в музыке.🤦 Второе исполнение более менее. Первое вообще ужасно. Отхерачить по клавишам испортить сонату могут только бездушные люди.
Perfect
Нервно как-то исполняет. В некоторых местах загоняет темп
Such an underrated sonata! It’s so bright, fun and beautiful. It deserves more recognition!
Been listening to this one recently. It's pretty good study music. :)
It's also interesting to note that Beethoven almost certainly originally conceived this sonata as a string quartet, as evidenced by the manuscript and the style of writing. It's also the only sonata he actually arranged for string quartet.
This is one of my favorite sonatas. A little gem. I love all three performances.
Beethoven is considered by many to be The Greatest and these very authentic recordings with Beethoven's sheet music is showing people Why
Thank you so much for this it's so helpful because I have to play the rondo for an exam and hearing different interpretations really helps to develop mine
Thank you for taking the time to post such beautiful pieces of music and write such eloquent descriptions about them. You inspire me to continue pursuing my own writing on music. :)
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@@parkourpro928 -_-
Awesome that you just posted this, since my piano teacher just assigned it to me a few days ago and I had never heard it before! Thanks for all the wonderful interpretations you find and the insightful descriptions.
3:13-3:37 best part ever
Seriously. When I learned this at 15 I couldn't get through that part because I found it so moving!
Yeah well I was 10 when I played this
And now I am 12
@@parkourpro928 guess what!
Im 2 and half years old and ive just learned all of is sonatas!
Jumppanen is my favourite :) Thanks for uploading this treasure of Beethoven.
All 32 Sonatas are amazing. You might have a favorite this week, but next one you fall in love with another.
Andreas Schiff states that if Bach’s Partitas are the Old Testament, Beethoven Sonatas are the New Testament.
Yokoyama's rendition is absolutely beautiful ! His touch is so pure and melodic. Thank you for posting this !
I find those bass octaves and RH arpeggios starting at Episode 2 of MVT III (thanks Ashish) so incredibly powerful and majestic 35:10
Did anyone else fall in love with the chord at 1:19?
Mendelssohn uses that a lot. Try his songs without words
That's Emaj9
I came into the comments for exactly this. There's something so delicious when pre-Romantic music stumbles upon extended tertiary harmony through voice leading (in addition to this one, I particularly love the first movement of No. 18, where the theme lands repeatedly on what's a hard for me to not analyze as an Ebmaj7).
Amazing!
This is my favorite Beethoven Sonata. The tempos were a little quick for my taste, but never ignored detail to the advantage of speed. Bravo!
I love the transition from 4:09-4:13
Thanks Ashish--what a pleasure to browse through your channel. I have played this sonata; it's so inspiring to hear what top caliber players can do with it. Sends me right back to the piano!!
Beautiful, I always liked this sonata (well all of beethoven's)
Me listening to what im studying in natural speed:
omg how the hell am i gonna do this
Me trying to do it:
omg how the hell did i do this
Me listening to both hands when i play seperate
*im screwed*
lmao for real tho
Лучше слушай известных исполнителей, а не молодежь, которая гонится в музыке в погоне за чертями.
Huh
fr im just starting to learn this
took me 5 hours to learn the second page
I love how you always put different pianist playing pieces you post, very creative! We can really experience how the three play the pieces differently! 🤗🥰
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I´m playing this Allegretto now. It is difficult because of its underlying intensity and complexity.... well, some might hear it differntly..... but I love it and want to play the whole sonata one day.
I’m playing this right now and I’m only 9
@@mayalee8933 9? That's super impressive
Im currently starting to learn this piece and it seems so fun, cant wait to play the whole thing!
second one was best by far. perfect tempo speed before the allegro section and throughout, and the touch and dynamic was superior. amazing.
the recapitulation in the first movement is a wonderful moment
Such intelligent pieces of art in the form of sound. Love how pieces merge from one to another.
Tyoypupuytrio
This is an excellent sonata for teaching form I have found. Simple enough to master the whole, but sneaky enough to reward enquiry!
Of course it starts off as simple then turns into a nightmare to read
Tbh I apply that sentence to Bach's music. Beethoven's music is largely way simpler to read (and play) than Bach's
@@nezkeys79I'd often rather a Bach fugue than much of Beethoven
Just the 4 initial bars dude
@@commentingchannel9776 you’re crazy lol. Sight reading Bach hurts my brain.
@@addison_1661yeah same theyre delusional
Incredible details! Thank you so much for the research!
This sonata is also notable for being in the handful of sonatas of which we do not have recordings of Emil Gilels performing. Fun to imagine how he would interpret this one.
But we have this one: ruclips.net/video/zQKzM8cVWuY/видео.html
I always find Beethoven at his melodic best when composing in 3/4
Agreed. I played sonata no 15
Since Beethoven was so good at composing 3/4. It is a pity he didn’t compose any valses
@@raulkostin4243 take a look at his 30th piano sonata on this channel. I think some variation in the third movement is a waltz
@@erezsolomon3838 there's one in the pathetique 1st movement too!
@@chrisy367no
Finally a sonata by Beethoven I’m going to enjoy playing ❤️.
what sonata didnt you enjoy?
You are not going to enjoy it trust me its nightmare to learn
I got goosebumps at 3:13
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@@TheModicaLiszt MOLLIUG
This has helped me on my analysis assignments for my degree. Thank you
I love this Sonata. It is beautiful and fun to play.
Thanks! Korstick is delighting.
Beethoven is marvellous
I am finding that a lot of these lesser known Beethoven sonatas are much quicker in tempo than I originally played them years ago. So they take on a new life and are much more interesting.
Such a beautiful chord at 1:20
Dang! Wish they had RUclips in the early 2000s so I knew how to play this properly. I think this sonata was beyond the abilities of myself AND my piano teacher at the time lol
I love this channel
Korstick's version is really exciting, it is the best for me!
Just started studying this one!! As my first "complex" Beethoven sonata
me too!
For your first complex Beethoven piece, I recommend the 10 Beethoven Sonata, it has great work and elegant styles along with some hard inversions to get between but I have faith that you can do it!
Gracias Beethoven!!!
3:52
so special beethoven's Style .....He says I 'll Surprise u
Korstick's control of dynamics is incredible!
Thanks for uploading this!
Thanks for uploading!
Wow, the vid description is so high effort. Thanks
20:57
와우! 아주 멋진 곡이네요♡♡
Op. 14 1 & 2 are well-known to piano students, as the easiest B sonatas after the op.49 pair. Maybe not so often performed because of that. Korstick IMO takes it much too fast, perhaps to prove that it isn't so easy after all.
I was super excied when I first heard 9:31
Im still excited :D
Wow finally someone feels the same :o
Happy 250th birthday Beethoven!
Excellent!
1:26 - fantastic!
A Person True!
Не фантастик, а полная лажа.
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I'm doing this for my Grade 8 ABRSM this year, it's not easy ofc but it is also not that hard if u practice;) Gd luck for those who wanna learn it, it's a nice piece😎
danke
0:10
Was feeling pretty good about my own tempo for the first movement. And then. Dude my scale section doesn’t sound anything like theirs
Those F natural before the coda in the first movement .. damn
The Allegretto is clearly one of my favourite Beethoven's sonatas movement ! But the slower tempo of Jumppanen is the best one.
Globally, Jumppanen made a better interpretation in my opinion
thanks, now i know how to describe II mvt, that strange sound is the renaissance-ish feel, oh not that "strange" is bad, it's nice
Tage mit Klaviermusik und Beethoven!
That first allegretto was more like an allegro.
초딩때 콩쿨곡 드디어 찾았다 ㅎ
이 곡 진짜 좋아했는데...손가락은 아팠지만;
第1楽章の第1主題は、師ハイドンの弦楽四重奏曲「五度」を意識してつくられたのでしょうか、
Delightful!
1200번째 좋아요 눌렀당
Lol I studied it a few days ago.. what a coincidence
I’m trying to learn this TT. I’m getting there!
1:20 this Emaj9 chord i feel is quite rare for music of beethovens time?
It's a really fun and striking dissonance for sure, but I feel it as a double appoggiatura, rather than an Emaj9 per se.
@Ashish Xiangyi Kumar yeah sounds more romantic or jazzy in nature to me with this configuration
Yokoyama is my fav
Does anyone know who is the publisher of the score in the video at all? I absolutely love the layout and the fingering
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I did this for my grade 8. I could never get bars 5 and 6 of movt. 1. Probably because I didn't practise enough
Cause its akward for the hands
03:13
I like bars 13 to bars 21
I will have to play this, and now I am like - what did my teacher gave to me. I'll never learn this!
I have to play this too, my teacher gave it to me too, but i know she gave it to you because you are able to do it ! Just be patient :)
You can do it!! Just start by learning the first page and that might motivate you to learn the rest of it. That’s how I do it...and just play seperate hands to start with slowly to learn the notes. Metronome work helps a lot too. I am learning this piece too. 😊
I chose it and I love it
3:01
At 9:07, Korstick seems to play an extra B in the melody, or is that a typo that is usually considered to be unplayed?
Thomas Ennser I think it may be mistake on the music sheet because on mine it is written the way he plays it, with the b being played twice
Cynthia's approach theme brought me here...
Erik C's cover?
feel like im going crazy... but are the recordings a semitone up from the score?
Android Kenobi you’re going crazy
8:36
ARSM be like
A strange sonata, with atypical material. Beethoven made an arrangement of it for string quartet and remarked that he doubted anyone else could have done so.
He did? Which opus/WoO number?
ruclips.net/video/Yqb1nzB2yC4/видео.html
It's listed as Hess 34.
Such a cutie
The intro reminds me of his first cello sonata
Okay it’s op
15:04-15:32
22:04-22:45
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Well that sonata may not have been a Glen Gould performance but i suppose one could say it was Good as Gould.....
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Stopped after learning the first page... beautiful song tho.
You forgot to mention that this piece also exists in the form of a string quartet!
do you know the opus number? i cant find this specific arrangement
it is actually not listed with an opus number, instead its tagged as "Hess 34"
Omg, I never knew this was like forty mins! This is really intimidating. P. S, I'm sorry if it's actually easy, I'm just a yr five, ten years old.
This is 3 performances from 3 different pianists. The actual piece is about 11 minutes long.
@@yayobro7194 lol yeah
Same
Have any of your videos been removed? I remember listening to Suite Bergamasque on your channel (with three different pianists I think) and I loved that video!
I can't find it anymore though - Is it just hidden in your videos, was I mis-remembering, or something different?
That’s not Allegretto!
Sounds like Mozart at the start
Just asking, if you would put this into an ameb grade, what would it be?
Ameb is the music examining course Australia uses
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Hi
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Great performance - any reason for the fast tempo in the second movement?
Who is Yokohama(what is his full name)?
Yukio Yokoyama (not Yokohama). Produced a full set of B.'s sonatas in the early 2000's, if I'm not mistaken. Only found out about it in Japan, actually, since he's obscure elsewhere.