Chopin's second and third piano sonatas are unusually popular among his works, nowhere more than in the "Funeral March" slow movement of the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35. There's a tendency to interpret them in a heroic Beethovenian light, and Chopin himself encouraged this with several direct references to Beethoven in the second sonata. The heroic mode grew in intensity as pianos became more powerful in the later 19th century, but there is plenty of room to go in a more restrained direction, and pianist ...
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Chopin's second and third piano sonatas are unusually popular among his works, nowhere more than in the "Funeral March" slow movement of the Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35. There's a tendency to interpret them in a heroic Beethovenian light, and Chopin himself encouraged this with several direct references to Beethoven in the second sonata. The heroic mode grew in intensity as pianos became more powerful in the later 19th century, but there is plenty of room to go in a more restrained direction, and pianist Javier Perianes finds it here. Consider the "Funeral March." Beethoven's funeral marches were freighted with political significance, but there is really no clue as to how Chopin thought about his essay in the form, and indeed at one point, he designated it simply as a March. In Perianes' reading, the second strain in D flat major is simply a consequent and does not require special emphasis. The consequences of this decision are profound, for it changes the relationship of the March to...
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