BEETHOVEN 14. Klaviersonate
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van Klaviersonaten Nr. 4, 14, 24; Fantasie g-moll
Jonathan Biss (Klavier)
* Onyx Classics
尽管明知道「月光」的标题是诗人Ludwig Rellstab的杜撰，可对这部作品的认识还是难免地陷进这个早就先入为主的意象。今；天在Coursera上看到柯蒂斯音乐学院Jonathan Biss教授的课程Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas上对第一乐章的分析倒是很有想法，醍醐灌顶：
Now I know that plenty of people have described this sound world as being romantic or nostalgic, but I hear this haze very definitely as menace.
For me, everything in this music that is not quite clarified—on account of the constant triplets, on account of the pedal—feels dangerous, because it is clearly so unfulfilled. The menace comes a bit more to the fore in the coda of the movement, when the theme that we had at the beginning plunges into the bass.
Even on a modern piano, this sounds quite different from what came before, but again, on Beethoven's piano, the change in register will bring more, more bite, more growl even to the sound than we've had before.
另外他对这位「贻害千年」的Rellstab的评价倒也真是黑的漂亮……
[...] The "Moonlight" Sonata, a name which was given not by Beethoven, but by the poet Rellstab. He wrote a number of poems that Schubert set as the first half of his Schwanengesang cycle, so I suppose he wasn't entirely useless. But honestly, "Moonlight" is a ghastly name for this piece.
