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 a Beethoven marathon Part 8: Julian Jacobson
Concert pianist and piano professor Julian Jacobson discusses the importance of the Beethoven edition as he prepares for his Beethoven sonata marathon. The concert takes place on November 12th 2022 at St. John’s Church in Waterloo, London. On Beethoven editions… This week’s blog is on the vexed topic of editions, a subject about which…
On preparing for a Beethoven marathon Part 7: Julian Jacobson
Part 7 of concert pianist and piano professor Julian Jacobson’s series chronicling preparations for his Beethoven sonata marathon. This event takes place on November 12th 2022 in London. Julian will undertake the mammoth task of performing all 32 sonatas in one day, and in this post, he muses on the much-admired Appassionata Sonata. On…
On preparing for a Beethoven marathon Part 6: Julian Jacobson
Concert pianist and piano professor Julian Jacobson continues his series. With his Beethoven marathon edging ever nearer, this week Julian lifts the lid on Beethoven’s ‘Fantasy-Sonatas’ Op. 27. Beethoven’s Fantasy-sonatas op 27, including ‘that one’….. Let’s start off by remembering that Beethoven was a phenomenal improviser at the keyboard, perhaps the greatest ever, or sharing…
On preparing for a Beethoven marathon Part 5: Julian Jacobson
Concert pianist and piano professor Julian Jacobson continues his series focusing on Beethoven sonatas. On Saturday November 12th 2022 Julian will perform all 32 sonatas in one day at St John’s Church Waterloo in London, and in this post he assesses Beethoven’s Opus 31 sonatas. Beethoven’s opus 31: an oddly assorted trio of sonatas Beethoven’s…
On preparing for a Beethoven marathon Part 4: Julian Jacobson
Pianist and piano professor Julian Jacobson continues his Beethoven marathon series. Beethoven’s monumental Sonata in B flat major Op. 106, known as the ‘Hammerklavier’, is today’s chosen topic. Ah, the redoubtable Hammerklavier. Beethoven’s “ne plus ultra” piano work, unless it be the Diabelli Variations. The piece that was regarded as unplayable, a closed book, until…
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….