Reubke - Piano Sonata in B-flat minor (Part 1/3)

[mcbeastie19601]

I know and love Reubke's Sonata on the 94th Psalm and I consider it to be one of the greatest pieces of organ music ever written, but I have never heard his B-flat minor piano sonata. Thank you for posting it. It is superb and a work of genius. It just makes me wonder what other masterpieces Reubke could have given the world if he'd lived longer.

[sergiobantam]

Só posso te agradecer pela oportunidade incrível!

Absolutamente maravilhosa.

Parabéns por todo o trabalho.

[MikJFr]

Add these two to extremely promising composers who died very young: Thomas Linley the younger, 1756–1778, and Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, 1806-1826. Mozart at nearly 36 looks positively old compared to them ...

[TheBulgarianThunder]

An amazing work, inspired by the style of Liszt with a very original foundation. I wonder what other masterpieces Reubke would have contributed to society if he had lived a full, happy life. I suppose hindsight won't bring him back, but by listening to his music, his memory will forever be remembered. Dispite his lack in popularity, as long as one person listens to his music, he will live on.

[gerardbedecarter]

Thanks for uploading this major work.

[bratzko79]

@hexameron: what are the other nine sonatas???

[ohquffy]

@neongrapes.

Absolutely right in my opinion, but damn, theres some subtle yet esoteric intimacy in Brahms music i can't find elsewhere.

[Neongrapes]

I am always skeptical of "lost geniuses" but this is really good. The only thing contemporarily comparable would be Liszt or Alkan. Sorry Brahms, fans-this kills Brahms' piano music.

[classicaland]

Thank you!

[steeeeevve]

Respond to this video... Reubke's Organ Sonata is well known.

[Gutelimpa]

Wow this is...great!

[raxmeger]

Thanks for your posts...

[DottorTriceratopo]

Totally agree with you, hoopiewoopie, especially about Marzocchi, the best I think.

[hoopiewoopie]

tanski: a very good "pianistic" vision of the piece, fellner: good but a bit boring (and it's a studio recording), marzocchi: very bad sound in the video but the most "symphonic" idea of the piece, and formally better then the other. In marzocchi's there is one page that seems to be missing in the other two.

[aytanmidas]

good interpretation, but I prefer Tanski´s recording

[driemaaldrommels]

i really love this piece and i'm really thinking about playing this myself someday, but i really don't like the pianist who is playing this, he makes it sound boring (in my opinion).

[nearenough3]

Fascinating. You hear fragments of the Liszt Sonata in this work..

How do you get all these pianists I never heard about to record these stupendous pieces? How long does it take them on the average to learn them?

[Geisterschiff]

Outstanding job posting this Sonata!!! What a loss for music that he died so young! Like Tausig, Pergolesi, William Kapell, Schubert, Mozart, Hans Rott the list is too sad to write down...

Thank you again for posting!

[Starwalker6978]

Anton Rubinstein wrote 4 interesting large scale sonata's, far more interesting than his large amount of smaller works (which are, most of them, somewhat shallow, though the etudes are very interesting pianisticly). Do you know some recordings of Rubinstein's sonata's? (One can't learn everything, and my sight reading doesn't reveal all!)

[Hexameron]

Indeed, I was planning on uploading some selected movements from Anton Rubinstein's piano sonatas in the far future. If I have the time and interest, I will upload the Theme and Variations Op. 88 and Fantasy Op. 77. All of these have been recorded by Leslie Howard. Rubinstein's piano concerti are also sadly underrated.

[Starwalker6978]

There is a great recording available of the Rubinstein's fourth concerto here on YT played by Josef Hofmann! I look forward to those recordings, and many thanks!