Wed 4/29 @ 7:30PM
American pianist Richard Goode, now 82, has built a stellar reputation for his interpretations of two composers that audiences will never tire of hearing: Beethoven and Mozart. But his extensive discography is wide-ranging: he’s recorded work by composers from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
When he comes to Oberlin’s Finney Chapel this week, he’ll be displaying that range. The program kicks off with Mozart’s Piano Sonata in A Minor, K. 310, and closes with another composer who is a staple of classical music programs: Franz Schubert, another Austrian who lived a short life and left a big impact. He’ll be performing his Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat Major, D.960.
In between, he’ll play a series of pieces he calls Fancies and Goodnights, which features works by Carlo Gesualdo, William Byrd, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Georges Bizet, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Leoš Janáček and, again Schubert, time-traveling from the mid-16th century to the mid 20th.
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