A Deep Dive Into Liszt's Sonata in B minor

0:00 Intro
0:45 Reactions from contemporary critics
2:06 Compositional History: programmatic connections
5:07 Connection to Alkan’s Sonata “Les Quatre Ages”
7:02 Connection to Liszt’s “Faust” Symphony
8:10 Performing editions by Liszt’s students
9:26 Structure and form
11:35 Walking through the piece: 1st mvt introduction
23:31 1st mvt exposition 1st theme
33:26 2nd theme
36:37 Thematic transformation into 3rd theme
43:48 a lovely cadenza and Liszt’s fingering
47:18 Development begins
51:28 False Recap
54:21 “In großen Noten”
57:23 The 2nd mvt: Organ solo
58:08 Maria Pavlovna and Liszt
1:08:55 False Recap: Fugue
1:12:28 True Recap: finale
1:19:56 The original ending and revision
1:20:44 (My version of the original ending)
1:24:31 D# or D-natural?
1:28:17 and the very end
1:34:39 Complete Performance

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