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Peter Takács to Perform GRAND FINALE of Two-Year, Eight-Recital Beethoven Cycle, Thursday, April 27, 8 P.M. in Finney Chapel
Takács To be Featured on WCPN's "Around Noon" (FM 90.3) with host Dee Perry on Monday, April 24
By Peter Takács
Sonatas Op. 28 "Pastorale," Op. 78, Op. 54, Op. 111
Dee Perry, host of WCPN's popular noontime offering, Around Noon, will interview Takács on Monday, April 24 (FM 90.3). Takács will illustrate the interview by performing on WCPN's grand piano.
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"The Mind of Beethoven," by Peter Takács
As
the eighth and final recital of my Beethoven Piano Sonata
series approaches, I am reflecting on the meaning of this
two-year immersion in one of the great monuments of piano
literature.
My first reaction is one of awe at the inexhaustible richness of thought, intellectual power and depth of spiritual commitment that Beethoven brought to these 32 masterpieces. They are a testament to this artist's ability to mine the vein of creativity to ever-deeper levels, evolving from youthful brilliance to transcendent mastery.
In searching for interpretive authenticity, I have tried to relate to the written text in as thorough a way as possible. This process of deduction has involved consulting primary materials such as autograph sources, sketchbooks, first editions, and the most recent scholarship I could find, and has re-confirmed my growing awareness that the text is a door to investigation rather than an immutable "fact on the ground." The signs on the page point to an elusive truth that needs to be painstakingly wrested from their deceptive immutability.
I have enjoyed the cyclical rhythm of having to prepare a concert approximately every seven weeks, with a period of "resting on one's laurels" followed by an accumulating crescendo as the next program approaches. I will miss the intensity and inexorability of this experience, although I confess to looking forward to some well-deserved rest!
I have been fortunate to receive wonderful support from faculty and staff. The offices of the Dean of the Conservatory, Concert Productions, Graphic Services, Piano Technology, and Public Relations have been utterly dedicated and professional in assisting this project. I have received many positive comments from my colleagues and members of the College and Oberlin communities, for which I am most grateful.
This has been an enriching experience. It has strengthened my belief that the great art of the past is a heritage that continues to have profound contemporary relevance and needs to be kept alive and continuously re-presented with conviction and communicative urgency. That is what I have tried to do.
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