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		Hammerklavier, the title of a recent highly personal and forthright novel by Reza about her dying father, has been shaped for the stage by actress Susie Lindeman and Kilmurry.
		In Hammerklavier she puts her own self in front of the mirror and on the line, confessing the image is not everything she desires it to be.
		It becomes memorable not only because of the dilemmas, absurdities and little joys it reveals, but the solitary core Reza, the writer, finally keeps to herself and where, I suspect, her art is created.
	www.timeminder.com.au /mark/page19.html (522 words)

	University of Leeds Centenary 1904 - 2004 \| Centenary concert \| Programme summary \| Sonata in A major Op. 101 (1816) ...
		After the fall of Napoleon, Beethoven’s sense of nationality manifested itself when he abandoned traditional Italian musical terminology, publishing works for ‘Hammerklavier’, a permanently associated with the sonata in B flat, Op.
		Beethoven’s career as a keyboard-player required him to play concertos and improvise, but sonatas were not played in public until later pianists (notably Liszt) took them up as concert items.
		Yet it is hard to imagine the amateurs who formed the main market for sheet music tackling these ‘Hammerklavier’ sonatas, the first of Beethoven’s ‘late’ sonatas.
	www.leeds.ac.uk /centenary/concert/beethoven.htm (469 words)

	PIANO SONATA FOUR_G
		The name 'Hammerklavier' reflects Beethoven's concern at this time to use German terms in music in place of Italian ones; the word was originally also associated with op.
		The Hammerklavier Sonata is but the first of a series of works that includes Beethoven's most monumental achievements in several other important musical genres: the Diabelli Variations, the Missa solemnis, and the Ninth Symphony.
		Beethoven utilizes an initially abstract, retrograde rhythm to generate a vigorous, propulsive forward momentum in the transition to the fourth section, when this figure is juxtaposed with the original subject in inversion.
	raptusassociation.org /son29e.html (8048 words)

	Redhotcurry.com - Hammerklavier by Yasmina Reza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In Hammerklavier all that the reader learns is that the piece is difficult to play and that her father plays it so that "in a glutinous mass, the notes go off to join some untitled primal magma, eternally chaotic and raw".
		In the book, the narrator goes to a performance of Handel's 'Messiah' and is so obsessed with thinking the lead singer is a childhood friend that she wants the concert to end so she can meet her childhood chum.
		Overall, Hammerklavier is a slim and shallow effort that does little justice to Ms Reza's literary skill.
	www.redhotcurry.com /entertainment/books/yreza2.htm (478 words)

	Document
		Grandeur is certainly an option for the very opening (though this sounds as much cautious as grand), but later on the tempo jars against passages which simply have to move on.
		The same thing happens in the Hammerklavier finale; the effect is like a slipping clutch—it's as though the playing cannot quite withstand the cumulative momentum of Beethoven's structure.
		Barenboim may probe even more deeply in the Hammerklavier slow movement, and his recording has a richness and translucency the earlier DG cannot match; but Pollini's controlled vehemence is without rival in the outer movements, and though he does not get right to the bottom of Op.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jdpt/reviews/Beet/Pol-28-32b.htm (414 words)

	Michael Krücker - Pianist
		My personal involvement with the hammerklavier is based on the fascination of hearing, understanding and experiencing a sound as it was probably heard centuries ago, when it served composers as the basis for their creative work.
		Today hammerklavier is understood to refer to the numerous different types of pianofortes (roughly between Mozart and Brahms) which preceded our modern pianos.
		Whereas the early hammerklaviers of Mozart's day still sounded very similar to harpsichords (they were in fact built in almost the same way: completely in wood, with a thin soundboard and thin strings), their expansion in compass from five to more than seven octaves brought with it a corresponding development in tone volume.
	www.michaelkruecker.com /en/altemusik.htm (484 words)

	VWM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		'This is one of the most commanding accounts of Beethoven’s mighty Hammerklavier - an unflinching, sometimes combative view of a titanic masterpiece, and a version to be spoken of in the same breath as those of Brendel, Gilels and Pollini.
		Ultimately, this is one of the great records of the Hammerklavier'.
		'The blinkered spirits who thought the composer of the Hammerklavier mad were themselves deluded; but a touch of madness in the works' performance helps, as this disciplined but ferocious, at times profoundly tender, account shows.
	www.vanwalsum.co.uk /amd/artists/sk2.htm (263 words)

	Ludwig van Beethoven Sonatas And Opus 106 Hammerklavier Review By Phil Gold
		ast month I heard Kuerti's Hammerklavier at the St. Lawrence Centre in Toronto, a performance that divided the critics for the two local rags.
		Here he offers his third recording of the Hammerklavier, and all three are excellent in their own ways.
		This particular performance is full of well sprung rhythms and has a satisfying natural flow.
	www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/0205/classical/beethoven.htm (991 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Experience - works
		The designation "for the Hammerklavier" has long since only been applied to Beethoven's B flat major Piano Sonata published as Op.
		With characteristic impetuosity, Beethoven decided to begin the reform at once, although it seems to have involved the re-engraving of the title page of the new sonata."Thus pianoforte became Hammerklavier and the movement headings, too, were given in German.
		It was written in the summer of 1816, which Beethoven spent in the town of Baden, just south of Vienna.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/beethoven/pianoson28.shtml (441 words)

	Beethoven [M.Tevfik Dorak]
		His immediate German successors Schumann and Mendelssohn were undoubtedly Romantic composers but in their symphonies it was Beethoven the Classic to whom they owed most.
		Hammerklavier) and dual tonality of the second subject in B minor and major (cf.
		Like the Hammerklavier and Grosse Fugue, he concluded his String Quartet No.3 and Symphony No.1 with fugues.
	dorakmt.tripod.com /music/beeth.html (4824 words)

	Document
		I was at first inclined to blame the recording for the absence of any dynamic marking below mezzo forte in many movements, but Pollini—in the slow movement of the Hammerklavier for example—shows that he can, when he wants, play on a whisper of half-tone.
		And Ashkenazy in a movement like the Scherzo of the Hammerklavier at his less hectic speeds finds an element of fantasy missing with Pollini.
		That is partly a question of recording quality, and the CD transfers of the analogue originals of Op.
	home.wanadoo.nl /jdpt/reviews/Beet/Pol-28-32a.htm (412 words)

	Hammerklavier - Yasmina Reza
		The frictions between intense feeling and the retreat towards analytical detachment energize Hammerklavier, while the nuances of atmosphere and emotion are rendered in elegant lucid English by Carol Cosman and Catherine Macmillan." -
		Hammerklavier is a thin book filled with short autobiographical vignettes.
		Memories of family -- especially her dead father -- and a number of friends, as well as other personal experiences are recounted.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/rezay/hammerk.htm (736 words)

	Carus-Verlag Stuttgart - New CDs
		The well-known Double Concerto for harpsichord and hammerklavier Wq 47 from 1788 is especially attractive.
		His compositions and the public performance of them played an essential role in the gradual replacement of the cembalo by the hammerklavier.
		Although the composer was plagued with the complaints of old age, the concerto shines with cheerfulness and beauty.
	www.carus-verlag.com /index.php3?selSprache=1&BLink=nl0105e (633 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Pno Sons 28-32 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Not only are these works profoundly emotional in the way his late work almost always was, but they're technically dazzling and so inventive that later composers were still exploring the avenues he'd opened up for almost a century.
		In the monumental Opus 106 "Hammerklavier", Beethoven managed not only to write a piece so difficult that even the great virtuosi (except for Pollini, and that's one of the many reasons to buy this recording) tend to make a few mistakes, but also to practically invent Chopin in the process.
		Pollini, never faulted for his almost-inhuman technique (as I said before, check out the Hammerklavier), is sometimes called unemotional because his playing is so razor-sharp, and because he refuses to let his playing fall into the trap of over-sentimentality.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001GXB (1306 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 - Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier)
		Yet the last five sonatas stand apart from the rest, in the same way that the late quartets do from their predecessors.
		101, 106, 109, 110 and 111 enter new levels of scale and ambition - and all were intended by Beethoven to be published with the designation "for the Hammerklavier", the German equivalent of 'pianoforte', though only Op.
		It is also the most imposing of the five, with a slow movement alone that exceeds the length of many of his early sonatas.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/classical/pizarro/sonata29.shtml (274 words)

	Books \| French letters
		Yasmina Reza doesn't much care for theatregoers: "The odious new community of the informed, intelligent public" she calls them in her debut novel, Hammerklavier.
		Hideously undecided about what to wear to a concert, the author experiments with a couple of strings of pearls and is uncomfortable with the effect all evening.
		But she must realise that, as soon as the book is put down, we are no longer friends.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4061069-99930,00.html (438 words)

	Beethoven: Sonatas for piano No29; Sonatas for piano No3 \| Classical Music Online
		He had the huge hands necessary for its reckless leaps, the strength and stamina for its marathon length, and the intellect necessary to make lucid its grinding dissonance and (in the finale) its pounding counterpoint.
		Of the three performances of the sonata that Richter gave in a two-week period (and that have been preserved on disc) in London, Prague, and Aldeburgh (this disc), this recording is probably best-suited to most listeners.
		Upon further listening I discovered that Richter hits nearly has many duff notes in the opening movement as Schnabel does (both were more or less 'live' recordings given the lack of splicing and playback facilities available to Schnabel) yet no one ever seems to criticise Richter for...
	www.onlineclassical.com /ItemId/B00004Y6OG (693 words)

	Beethoven Hammerklavier Hatto [JW]: Classical CD Reviews- December 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		It has reached the mighty Hammerklavier and coupled with it is the early Op.
		I’d hesitate to call her Hammerklavier anti-heroic; perhaps anti-grand would be a better characterisation.
		Nevertheless the clarity of her passagework is lordly in its finesse and articulacy and I sense a thoroughly up to date sensibility at work, cognisant of all types of performance practice whilst being subservient to none.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Dec03/hammer_hatto.htm (684 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Gilels' forthright, steel-trap rhythm and powerful finger articulation really make you sit up and take notice, together with treacherous leaps in the first movement and fugal finale that land smack in the center of the keys.
		Interestingly, a live Gilels Hammerklavier recently reissued by Brilliant Classics replicates this studio version with less digital accuracy yet with 20 times the power, resonance, and cumulative sweep.
		That said, my favorite Hammerklavier practitioners on disc brave the explosive, unfettered terrain that usually materializes when Beethoven's fast yet feasible metronome markings are taken to heart.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=8516 (290 words)

	Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No.29 Bb Major Op.106 Hammerklavier (Piano)\| Digital sheet music to download and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		By the time he came to compose his piano sonata in B flat major, Op.106, Beethoven had already described his previous one (Op.101) as ‘
		Therefore there is no convincing reason, apart, that is, to avoid confusion, why the second sonata to be described thus should be the one to acquire the word
		Hammerklavier Sonata took Beethoven about a year to compose - he completed it in the autumn of 1818 - and, like the
	www.sheetmusicnow.com /title.asp?tid=29529 (421 words)

	Independent, The (London): ARTS REVIEWS: THEATRE: HAMMERKLAVIER Jermyn Street Theatre London
		The one-woman show has been adapted, by Lindeman and the director Mark Kilmurry, from Reza's novel of the same name, which seems to be a long love letter to herself.
		But then he thrills his daughter by embracing the man and making the transparently false remark that the two are survivors.
		One night Yasmina asks her father to get out of bed and play the adagio from Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata for her.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_200309/ai_n12708957 (662 words)

	Battery Life
		It was played on her for her, and she had to "follow that" - a great moment.
		By the way, as I suspected, the name "Hammerklavier" means no more than "Pianoforte"...It's simply a reference to the intended instrument, the piano.
		And the designation was given to all five late sonatas, as in "for the Hammerklavier", "for the pianoforte", but the label has only stuck with Opus 106.
	cprelude.blogspot.com (831 words)

	Beethoven Symphony 5 Weingartner [CC]: Classical CD Reviews- July 2004 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Orchestrating the almighty ‘Hammerklavier’ is a task not to be taken lightly.
		That Felix Weingartner was himself a prolific composer surely must have helped in his understanding of Beethoven’s processes, and it certainly is true that this sonata seems to go beyond the capabilities of a keyboard instrument - even modern Steinways, never mind Beethoven’s piano.
		And at a fiver, there is nothing to be lost in trying the ‘Hammerklavier’ for size.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2004/July04/Beethoven_Weingartner.htm (887 words)

	Hammerklavier
		'Hammerklavier' is the semi-autobiographical novel and play by 'Art' author, Yasmina Reza.
		The production of 'Hammerklavier' in Sydney is its English-language premiere.
		'Hammerklavier' - which means pianoforte - is one of Beethoven's most difficult sonatas.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/arts/atoday/stories/s255301.htm (76 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Sonatas 8/29 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This extraordinary disc couples two of Beethoven's greatest sonatas in performances that are second to none.
		His approach pays particular dividends in the Hammerklavier Sonata, where his liveliness and lack of pretension makes the work far less forbidding than it can sound in other hands.
		Both the Pathétique and Hammerklavier Sonatas are essential listening for anyone interested in Beethoven's piano music; and at budget price, with the rarely heard Fantasia, Op.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000027P3 (349 words)

	Beethoven
		106 is referred to as the “Hammerklavier” sonata which is the German word for piano, but unlike other piano sonatas when musicians refer to the Hammerklavier they are referring to this work (Gordon, 184) even though Beethoven used the Hammerklavier title for all his works written after 1817 (Marston, 404).
		The fact that Hammerklavier was attached to this sonata and no others was a mistake although it is distinguished from other sonatas for a number of reasons (Marston, 404).
		Marston, N. Approaching the sketches for Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” sonata.
	www.bsu.edu /web/adbaker2/portfolio/Beethoven.html (4079 words)

	Amazon.com: Beethoven: Die Späten Klaviersonaten: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Gone are the trappings of his earlier style, with the narrative forms, and the 'epic' battles between darkness and light.
		Even "melodies" and "main themes" are replaced a good deal of the time by improvisational-sounding sequences and shifting blocks of abstract line and harmony (particularly in the first movements of the E major and A flat sonatats, and in the transition between the 3rd and 4th movements of the "Hammerklavier").
		However, when the music decides to shift into the abstract, and the lyrical moments give way to the more jagged, expressionistic episodes, some of these same celebrated artists seem-well...a bit lost.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001GXB?v=glance (3426 words)

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