Beethoven sonata Nr 8 for pno & vln (with regard to the way they played it in those days)

Beethoven Sonata n°8 (with regard to the way they played it in those days)

Live recording made in 1980 during 3 concerts (preceeded by a conference) of the 10 Beethoven's sonatas for piano & violin. That was after an intensive research to collect and study as much material as possible, giving some clues on the way they played it at the end of 18th and the begining of 19th.

For more details about that playing, see please the sonatas from 1 to 5 little notes.


For the last concert, (sonatas Nr 8, 9, and 10), just for the fun of it, I started exactly like it was traditional to do until around 1820, it is by playing first, and almost as an extention to the tuning of the instrument, a very short prelude.

Kreutzer was one of the last musicians to continue that tradition, and to start a concert by improvising a short piece in the key of the first sonata to be played, just like one nips here and there a small nut or a cracker with an aperitive, before to start the meal. It sort of wakes up the taste aptitude.

In the case of a concert, it's more to prepare the audience to the concentration, but also, it helps the player to get an idea of the halls acoustic, to take its dimension and resonnance.

Since just before to enter I was concentrating on the first piece to be played, that bit of the first theme came naturally to my mind, but for the best, after all: one shouts "The King", and then enters the King.



J-C F

More informations (and more music) on : www.jeanclaudeferet.net

(French/English)



Piano: Christine Hartley
Violin: Jean-Claude Féret

Production

Artist: Piano: Christine Hartley-Troskie violin: Jean-Claude Féeéret

Producer: J-C F

Writer: Beethoven

Categories

Categories: Classical (Instrumental)

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