Sonata

This is when those big forms arose the symphonies, the sonatas, the concertos.

If you'll excuse me, I'll open up the other rooms. LaTour.

Consider the memory of long temporal sequences of movements, like a pianist playing a Beethoven sonata.

It fits the room perfectly.

Solo!

Let me play a Bach prelude for you.

The sonatina.

Play the Humppa!

Play La Marseillaise. Play it!

Your sonatina...

You say you've written a string quartet and a piano concerto.

The Second Piano Concerto.

The Second Piano Concerto.

The sonatina.

Soft Listen. Listen to what they're playing.

He promised to play me this number

I'm going to play a piece of music for you.

What makes you play that?

Semyon! The Daniel Cooper! You know it?

We want to play you one more selection.

Today I had to march to your music, now you march to mine.

But I was playing the same thing.

Diabelli's lovely sonatina.

Now play the sonatina.

My band must play marches.

Why don't you let me play you a little thing I I wrote last week.

The symphony Isaac Stern, the concerto, I heard it.

Oh, uh... you mind if i strum a few chords on my guit' box here?

It's called Abegg Variations, by Robert Schumann, a German 19th century composer.

Bach only wrote themes and variations one time.

So we're gonna play something together anyway.

TM So Dan is going to play a piece of his, called My Eagle Song .

The pianist played two encores.

They've played waltzes all evening.

I'm not partial to them.

Rachmaninoff, the Second Piano Concerto.

where I won First Prize in Harmony,

I want to hear the pieces that Horowitz didn't play.

So this is our last number, and we'll feature Nat on piano.

And we're going to play just the very tail end of this symphony now.

Excuse me. I think I'll ask the orchestra to play some Brazilian music.

A record of the delightful piece they're going to play.

The Clarinet Concerto by Mozart. Do you mind?

At the moment, he's working on a sonatina by Diabelli.