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The Venue - Leeds College of Music
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7PD
England
Programme
Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata no.14 in A minor, D.784
Leoš Janáček – Piano Sonata 1.X.1905 'From the Street'
Doménico Scarlatti – Six Piano Sonatas
Aleksandr Scriabin – Piano Sonata no.5, Op.53
Performers
Alasdair Beatson – piano
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Programme Note
Alasdair writes of a recital highlighting the variety of form and feeling to be found within the sonata form: “From the inventive, jewel-like miniatures of Scarlatti to the vast emotional and dramatic span of Schubert, quite diferent beasts may lurk behind the generic ‘sonata’ title. Janáček’s Sonata 1 X 1905 From the Street is an outpouring of grief and anger at the violent death of a protestor in Brno, whilst Scriabin seems to discover new heights of euphoria in his intoxicating, sensual and ecstatic fifth sonata.”
The sonatas chosen for this recital illustrate the developments in form used for sonatas across the years. Scarlatti, a very proliic sonata composer with 555 examples to his name, wrote concise single movement works, whilst Schubert’s Piano Sonata No 14 is a classic example of the three movement formula of the Classical and Romantic eras. Into the twentieth century and Janáček’s descriptive sonata features two movements and Scriabin’s Fifth Piano Sonata is expressed in one single movement, “a big poem for piano” as the composer described it.
