music clip of the day

Funeral last week.

Ill this week.

What to listen to?

Beethoven, Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111/Claudio Arrau, piano (1970)

1st Movement

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2nd Movement

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lagniappe

A fascinating lecture-recital on this sonata, by pianist Andras Schiff, can be heard here.

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Speaking of the second movement, pianist Alfred Brendel said:

. . . perhaps nowhere else in piano literature does mystical experience feel so immediately close at hand.