Tag: Filippo Gorini

  • PROGRAM NOTES: FILIPPO GORINI

    PROGRAM NOTES: FILIPPO GORINI

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    Johann Sebastian Bach The Art of Fugue  BWV 1080 By the 1740s Bach had largely withdrawn from composing new church music for Leipzig’s Thomaskirche, devoting his creative energies instead to a series of large-scale projects that responded more directly to his own personal and professional interests. These monumental works were encyclopedic in scope, systematic in…

  • PROGRAM NOTES: FILIPPO GORINI

    PROGRAM NOTES: FILIPPO GORINI

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    Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata A flat major Op. 110 Beethoven’s penultimate piano sonata is remarkable for the utter simplicity of its musical ideas and the directness with which they are expressed. The most obvious late-period features of this work are an extremely wide keyboard range and a melding of slow movement and finale into a…