Pianist and piano professor Julian Jacobson has been writing a splendid and very popular guest post series for this blog. He is focusing on a recent Beethoven marathon where he performed all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas in one day – both in London and in Uruguay. This final article is the postlude. Here, he…
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On preparing for a Beethoven Marathon Part 3: Julian Jacobson
Concert pianist and teacher Julian Jacobson’s series highlighting the preparations for his forthcoming Beethoven marathon concert continue. Here, Julian discusses why he will be performing them all from memory. Why from memory? Why oh why, as I sometimes ask myself when a particularly fiddly bit of detail, often in the early sonatas, proves especially recalcitrant….