Played by JOHN PETRIE DUNN
Sonata in A (Op. 101), Last two Movements
AFTER the March Movement (with which
A yesterday's recital closed) Beethoven writes a very brief slow passage which is marked ' slow and full of great longing '—a. page of the loveliest texture, broken in upon by a reminiscence of the Sonata's opening Movement, ' like a gleam of sunshine,' as someone has happily said. Without further delay we are plunged into the long and magnificently built up Finale.