Beethoven’s sonatas. The Osokins

The piano sonata is the genre that is most often called the creative playground of the great Vienna classic Ludwig Van Beethoven. The sonata is where Beethoven tested, improved and perfected his peculiar ideas and innovative sonic techniques of his signature style that were later included with full confidence in his masterful scores. Himself an outstanding pianist, he wrote piano sonatas all throughout his life – the first four were written still in the final years of the 18thcentury, and the last – five years from his death, vividly exposing the metamorphosis of his style and signs of the zeitgeist.

As the composer’s 250thbirthday approaches in 2020, the concert organization Latvijas Koncertipresents a unique gift to their audiences – a chance to hear all of Beethoven’s sonatas, which will be performed by several pianists popular with the Latvian audiences in a special concert cycle.

Sergejs Osokins and Andrejs Osokins are a part of the Latvian piano elite. They’re linked not only by family ties but also by a musically creative and surprisingly vivid vision that the father has managed to pass on to his son. Skill gained through extensive experience and thrilling expansion will illuminate five sonatas of Beethoven’s middle and late period, letting the audience experience sonic visions of dancing moonlight in the Moonlight Sonata (Sonata No. 14, S. Osokins), inviting on a morning hunt (Sonata No. 18, The Hunt, S. Osokins), feeling insatiable longing in one of Beethoven’s most tormented sonatas – Appassionata(Sonata No. 23, A. Osokins) and trying to touch the fragile in humanity (Sonata No. 27, Farewell, S. Osokins, and sonata No. 31, A. Osokins)

Programme

Ludwig Van Beethoven’s piano sonatas No. 18, 27, 14, 23 and 31

Participants

Andrejs Osokins, piano
Sergejs Osokins, piano

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