Notable too was his account of Sebastian Currier's five-movement Piano Sonata.
Amy Beach's four-movement Piano Concerto is a sure-fire virtuoso vehicle with a scherzo all its own.
He gave the first performance of a one-movement piano sonata in 1928, but only after it was revived in the 1980s did it receive critical acclaim.
A corresponding evolution away from the Classical form of the sonata for one instrument occurs in Liszt's one-movement Piano Sonata in B Minor (1853).
That piece was scored for any number of performers playing any instrument as loudly as possible; the four-movement piano concerto is much better behaved.
His one-movement Piano Sonata (1919), an exercise in New World diablerie, belongs in the same top drawer with the piano sonatas of Ives and Copland.
He was also brilliant when the full orchestra came onstage for a scintillating performance of Strauss's early one-movement piano concerto, "Burleske," music beholden to Brahms in his lighter, waltzing mode yet bursting with youthful exuberance and irreverent modernism.
| Aug. 26 at 3: In "Mahler and Friends: Unfinished Business," the Amernet String Quartet, a fresh and engaging American group, offers performances of the young Mahler's one-movement Piano Quartet, the elder Grieg's autumnal, two-movement Second Quartet, and Brahms's Piano Quintet, that great summer standby; the pianist James Tocco is its guest.
She learned to make sense of body language, facial expressions, lip movements, piano playing, in such detail that she developed a pattern recognition in which she can decipher the pattern in just about anything visual".
In the mysterious second movement the piano discourses with percussion instruments, which in this performance, as Bartok requested, were placed right behind the piano onstage.
In the second movement the piano mostly plays a wistful, simple melody meant to evoke a child practicing distractedly.
