Poster Nikolay Khozyainov
Nikolay Khozyainov
courtesy Agencja Artystyczna Filharmonia
Regional Spotlight™

Health as Light: Beethoven Reviving

Khozyainov performs Beethoven

The Beethoven Piano Sonata No 31 was written while the composer recovered from a long illness. His instructions for the final movement in particular are both in German — "wieder auflebend" (again reviving) — and in Italian, "poi a poi di nuovo vivente" (little by little with renewed vigor).

Pianist Nikolay Khozyainov follows these instructions magnificently to make the sonata sound like Spring. Khozyainov's performance from a Frederic Chopin Society recital is in this week's Regional Spotlight.

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