Interpreted by SOLOMON
Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58
Part I. Allegro Maestoso ; Scherzo, molto vivace
CHOPIN'S Third Piano Sonata is one of the latest of his bigger compositions, written
, as it was in 1844, but five years before his early death (at the age of thirty-nine).
The First Movement is in the usual ' first-movement ' form ; its material is set forth in a first section, treated in various ways in a second, and recapitulated in a third. But the material is so profuse (too profuse, according to most critics), that without previous knowledge of the . work, all one can do is to drink in the music without too close attention to detail.
The Scherzo has for beginning and end a ceaseless, high-and-low-ranging flight, as swift and light as could be. In the middle there is a long, calm melody.