Jean Sibelius - Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 12 | Текст песни

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Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957), Piano Sonata in F Major, Op. 12 (1893)

Performed by Håvard Gimse

00:00 - No. 1 Allegro molto
06:02 - No. 2 Andantino-Presto
13:51 - No. 3 Vivacissimo

Sibelius was not a pianist by training, and never truly mastered the art of composing for the instrument. He nevertheless produced a great deal of keyboard music, of which the Op.12 Piano Sonata in F major is the earliest successful effort.

Cast in three movements, the first, not surprisingly, is in standard sonata-allegro form. While it is abundantly clear that Sibelius is not entirely comfortable with the piano -- witness the extended use of tremolo filling and the predominance of octaves in the left-hand, both idiomatic defects which a true pianist would have shunned -- the development section does contain passages which herald methods he embraced in the later Symphonies. The recapitulation contains no surprises, and the movement ends with an inventive coda.

Formally, the second movement is the most inventive of the three, fusing together elements of slow movement and scherzo. This technique grows increasingly dear to Sibelius as years go by, ultimately culminating in the single-movement structure of the Seventh Symphony. The scherzo is basically a two-voice dance in the Phrygian mode, while the much more expansive slow section is rich in melancholy, if embarrassingly poor in pianistic writing.

Despite its numerous textural flaws -- of the type already encountered in the first movement, the finale best represents the composer's typical work of the 1890s. It has the same kind of energetic thrust found in his orchestral work of the period, exemplified by En Saga, and is perhaps best viewed as a symphonic work condensed into pianistic proportions.

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