BEETHOVEN Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major (Op. 102, No. 2) Score

"The Sonatas for cello and piano No. 4 in C major, Op. 102, No. 1, and No. 5 in D major, Op. 102, No. 2, by Ludwig van Beethoven were composed simultaneously in 1815 and published, by Simrock, in 1817 or early 1818 with a dedication to the Countess Marie von Erdődy, a close friend and confidante of Beethoven.

The two sonatas were composed between May and December 1815. A first copy by Beethoven’s copyist Wenzel Rampl was made in late 1815 but was then subject to further alterations by Beethoven. A subsequent ‘good’ copy was supplied in February 1816 to Charles Neate for proposed, though unrealized, publication in London. Beethoven then made further small alterations prior to their eventual publication by Simrock in Bonn.

During the period 1812 to 1817 Beethoven, ailing and overcome by all sorts of difficulties, experienced a period of literal and figurative silence as his deafness became overwhelmingly profound and his productivity diminished. Following seven years after the A Major Sonata No. 3, the complexity of their composition and their visionary character marks (which they share with the subsequently completed piano sonata Op 101) the start of Beethoven's "third period".

The critics of the time, often perplexed by Beethoven's last compositions, described the sonatas in terms such as the following from the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung:

"They elicit the most unexpected and unusual reactions, not only by their form but by the use of the piano as well…We have never been able to warm up to the two sonatas; but these compositions are perhaps a necessary link in the chain of Beethoven's works in order to lead us there where the steady hand of the maestro wanted to lead us."

This sonata consists of three movements. While this sonata is more accessible and conventionally structured, the concluding fugue prefigures the fugal finales of the Hammerklavier Sonata and the late string quartets."
- Wikipedia 2020

Performed by Mischa Maisky and Martha Argerich

Allegro con brio - 00:05
Adagio con molto sentimento d'affetto - 06:32
Allegro fugato - 15:07

[Sam-tjnp]

Its rare to hear from Beethoven a "normal" fugue and this finale is one of them.

[jovanalsti]

11:11. Beethoven writes the theme to the movie "Gone with the Wind"

[leonhardeuler]

16:42 12 Tone row
16:21 Tone row again
16:21 Dissonances: Very linear writing in the fugue.
16:29 Possible augmentation of scalar portion of subject in the bass
16:37 Inversion of both subject and countersubject.

[jookoo]

00:03 1st Allegro con brio
06:33 2nd Adagio con molto sentimento d’affetto
15:07 3rd Allegro

[prof.jasonsaid]

These works by the great master are a must to evolvement of the gigantic structure and ideas that works as the estuary Bridge between earth and its troublesome and suffering to Beethoven's heavens where we discover the calamity between our outer and inner selves . great performance here

[agseu]

Esta música extraordinária traz-me à memória a agonia do meu pai, que acompanhei, e a distância a que então me encontrava de mulher e filha. Era o meu bálsamo diário.

[ClassicalMusic-dsyt]

موومان سوم حال و هوای فیوگ سونات هامرکلاویر رو داره..

[georgenorris]

The pianist certainly obeys the dynamics but sometimes he forgets he´s playing with a cellist. I know that both instruments are equally important but I´m less sure he does. It´s an astonishing work and, in the final movement, I was often thinking about the grosse fuge, They inhabit a similar soundworld of white hot intensity.

[pdr]

הנוראות שאבי סבל ומלכותו עם 4 ו5 מתחיל ב3. וסיום ב4 1 וב3 ו1 מסתיים ב3. איטי יותר ורגוע בסוף.

[olivierdrouin]

Allegro initial a mettre en relation avec ceux du trio avec piano 5 zt du quatuor 11.