Beethoven: Sonata in E flat Major, Les Adieux ( Oppitz, Lortie)
The Les Adieaux is one of the great works from Beethovens middle period, and is notable for several reasons. For a start, its Beethovens only explicitly programmatic sonata; the three movements are labelled The Farewell, The Absence, and The Return respectively. The first movement is bound by an aching motif; the second is full of painful suspensions and diminished 7th chords, and the last movement is an explosion of joy. Theres also the fact (too little remarkedupon) that the last movement really is
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