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Liszt - B Minor Sonata: Analysis

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Mar 22, 2020
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TRO gives an analytical overview of Liszt's B minor piano sonata with an emphasis on motivic construction. Zimerman's recording: https://www.amazon.com/Liszt-Sonata-lugubre-gondola-Fun%C3%A9railles/dp/B000001GF5 This is a fair use commentary for educational purposes. BIBLIOGRAPHY/FURTHER WATCHING AND READING: Ashish Xiangyi Kumar - A great channel that has a performance by Alexei Grynyuk with excellent analytical notes, and also has the Zimerman recording, including (in the comments) a nice discussion of the voice projection leading into the Andante: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlD8EBfmKJE&t=744s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeKMMDxrsBE&t=912s Boronkay, A. (Ed) 1983 Neue Liszt-Ausgabe. Serie 1, Band 5 (pp.27-59) Budapest: Editio Musica. https://imslp.org/wiki/Piano_Sonata_in_B_minor,_S.178_(Liszt,_Franz) Cruz Fidelis sheet music: https://imslp.org/wiki/Crux_fidelis_(Gregorian_Chant) Gramophone - Review mentioned in the video: https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/liszt-piano-works-25 Hamilton, K. 1996 Liszt: Sonata in B Minor. Cambridge Music Handbooks. Cambridge: CUP. Huakinthoi - A nice graphic analysis by Youtuber, huakinthoi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F585J340As Liszt Competition - Fascinating discussion of the sonata by pianist Leslie Howard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAel-mzSmts Liszt Competition - Jerome Rose talking through the sonata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQd1n5oKiE8&t=988s Longyear, R.M. (1973) Liszt's B minor Sonata: Precedents for a structural analysis. The Music Review 34 (3/4): 198-209. Merrick, P. (Spring 2011) 'Teufelsonate': Mephistopheles in Liszt's Piano Sonata in B minor The Musical Times 152 (1914): 7-19. Newman, W.S. (1972) The Sonata since Beethoven New York: WW Norton & Co. Szász, T. 1984 Liszt’s Symbols for the Divine and Diabolical: Their Revelation of a Program in the B Minor Sonata. Journal of the American Liszt Society, 15: 39-95. Winklhofer, S. (1980) Liszt's Sonata in B Minor: A Study of Autograph Sources and Documents Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press.

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