Stewart Goodyear
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts
UC Davis
Complete Beethoven Sonatas
Mondavi Center Presenting Program
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"He’s got blistering technique along with soulful insight and makes this music sound as though you’re hearing it for the first time. This is essential listening for anyone looking to discover Beethoven all over again."— CBC Music on Stewart Goodyear
All-Day pass holders will enjoy in and out privileges between sonatas.
Includes admission to Programs 1–3.
Individual programs available when single tickets go on sale in August.
Program 1: 10AM–2PM
Op. 49, 1-2; Op. 2 to Op. 22 (includes “Pathetique”)Lunch Break
Program 2: 3PM–6:30PM
Op. 26 to Op. 57 (includes “Moonlight,” “Pastoral” and “Appassionata”)Dinner Break
Program 3: 8:30PM–11:30PM
Op. 78 to Op. 111 (includes “Hammerklavier” and the remarkable late sonatas)
Ludwig Van Beethoven wrote 32 piano sonatas between 1795–
1822—a span of more than 25 years. Acclaimed young pianist
Stewart Goodyear will play the entire cycle, from memory, in less
than 24 hours! Known for his imaginative playing (he is one of the
rare classical musicians to always improvise his cadenzas when
performing concertos from the classical period), Goodyear’s decision
to tackle these masterworks in one day is an inspired choice. “The
Beethoven piano sonatas are what compelled me to become a pianist,
and I knew that my first solo recordings must start with all of them,”
Goodyear says in the liner notes to his recording of the Beethoven
cycle. “I cannot choose a group from these sonatas to record and feel
whole. From the time I first heard them, I saw all the sonatas as a set, a
retrospective of Beethoven’s art and his life.”
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