M544 Week 3 (Week of September 5)

MONDAY—LABOR DAY!

Brahms (1833–1897)

Listening:

Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Op. 5 (1853) (Op. 5 HANDOUT)

Allegro maestoso
Andante espressivo
Scherzo: Allegro energico
Intermezzo: Andante molto
Finale: Allegro moderato ma  rubato

Rubinstein

Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Op.24(1861)

Cliburn

Shorter pieces:

Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 no. 2 (1879)
Ballade in G minor, Op. 118 no. 3    (1893)
Intermezzo in E-flat minor, Op. 118 no. 6 (1893)
Intermezzo in B minor, Op. 119 no. 1 (1893)

Lupu

Reading:

Frisch (Todd), pp. 316–354 

J. Peter Burkholder, “Brahms and Twentieth-Century Classical Music.”  19th-Century Music, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Summer, 1984), pp. 75-83