Wednesday, August 19, 2020 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EDT)
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Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp major, Op. 78 "à Thérèse"
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat major, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier"

Longtime BSO collaborator Garrick Ohlsson, who performed all 32 of Beethoven’s piano sonatas at Tanglewood in 2006, performs two of the series in a recital from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Beethoven dedicated his two-movement 1809 F-sharp sonata, Op. 78, to one of his students among the nobility, the Countess Thérèse von Brunsvik. At the other end of the spectrum from this lovely and brief two-movement sonata is composer’s most muscular and ambitious sonata, the four-movement "Hammerklavier". Formally innovative and including a towering fugue in its last movement, the "Hammerklavier" is one of the defining works of Beethoven’s final decade.

Available August 19, 2020 at 8pm Eastern / 5pm Pacific, through August 26.

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Tickets: $8 per video, $42 for the entire series. Donate $100 or more and receive a pass for the entire season!