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Wigmore Hall: Jonathan Biss

Live from Wigmore Hall, London, Jonathan Biss (piano) in Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 6 in F. Janacek: On an Overgrown Path (selections). Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 21 (Waldstein).

Live from Wigmore Hall, London.

Jonathan Biss (piano)

Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 6 in F major, Op 10 No 2
Janacek: On an Overgrown Path (selections)
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 21 in C major, Op 53 'Waldstein'

American pianist Jonathan Biss brings insights from his recent free online education course Exploring Beethoven's Piano Sonatas to his performance of two of the best-known Sonatas - including one of the most popular of all, the Waldstein, named after its dedicatee, Beethoven's patron Count Waldstein. The filling in Biss's Beethoven sandwich is a selection of Janacek's remarkable piano miniatures, On an Overgrown Path, many of them connected to the death of his twenty-year-old daughter Olga in 1903.
Presented by Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

58 minutes

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 6 in F major, Op 10 No 2

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 21 in C major, Op 53 'Waldstein'

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 21 in C major, Op 53 'Waldstein'

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No 6 in F major, Op 10 No 2

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On an Overgrown Path (Selections)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On an Overgrown Path (Selections)

    Performer: Jonathan Biss.

Broadcasts

  • Mon 5 May 2014 13:00
  • Sun 11 May 2014 13:00