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Pianistic flair and technical brilliance are the hallmarks of this winning record, in which Hamilton delivers Liszt’s transcriptions of works by Schubert, Wagner and others
Winner of a 2022 International Classical Music Award (ICMA), the DW film "A World Without Beethoven?" explores the composer's influences on pop culture.
Photo: Taidō Shūfū, Ensō (Nineteenth century). Detail. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. 11 1/16 in x 24 5/16 in. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Let’s talk about the last movement of Beethoven’s last piano sonata. This is a very, very difficult thing to do. One, because you’re already thinking of this piece as a masterpiece, because who wouldn’t, faced with the connotations of that first sentence? And there is nothing that burdens music like knowledge of its greatness. In fact such an extensive mythos has accreted around the final movement of the Op.111 Sonata—re: its sacredness, i...