Has there ever been a more a more profound piece of music than the Hammerklavier sonata? This, of course, is a rhetorical question: we cannot describe music or even categorize it – esthetical and philosophic concepts prove inadequate, even when applied by great writers such as Thomas Mann. Here's Eteri Andjaparidze's interpretation of Beethoven's Sonata number 29, op.106.
June 1, 2009
Has there ever been a more a more profound piece of music than the Hammerklavier sonata? This, of course, is a rhetorical question: we cannot describe music or even categorize it – esthetical and philosophic concepts prove inadequate, even when applied by great writers such as Thomas Mann. Here's Eteri Andjaparidze's interpretation of Beethoven's Sonata number 29, op.106.