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- John Joubert
Sonata No.2 (1972)
- Novello & Co Ltd (World)
Commissioned by the Birmingham Arts Association
Programme Note
John Joubert: Piano Sonata, No. 2 Op. 71
1. Moderato - poco allegro
2. Presto - poco lento - presto
3. Poco lento - allegro vivace - meno mosso: maestoso - allegro agitato - lento
The second sonata is on a much larger scale than the first, and has three movements which develop in intensity, reaching a climax in the last movement which is a passacaglia. It is a stormy work, in the sense that it opens peacefully and closes in a similar manner, with a heavy shower of notes and ideas in between.
There is little hint of this in the gentle opening of the first movement, and although it follows the pattern of its previous sonata in developing a climax and releasing it again, it is not until the scherzo, with its powerful motor rhythms, that the full fury of the storm breaks. The concluding passacaglia is built on repetition. The nature of the form party makes this inevitable, but repetition becomes a subtext, with the idea of speeding up to a climax being itself repeated, the second time subsiding into the peace of a storm blown out.
© John Joubert
1. Moderato - poco allegro
2. Presto - poco lento - presto
3. Poco lento - allegro vivace - meno mosso: maestoso - allegro agitato - lento
The second sonata is on a much larger scale than the first, and has three movements which develop in intensity, reaching a climax in the last movement which is a passacaglia. It is a stormy work, in the sense that it opens peacefully and closes in a similar manner, with a heavy shower of notes and ideas in between.
There is little hint of this in the gentle opening of the first movement, and although it follows the pattern of its previous sonata in developing a climax and releasing it again, it is not until the scherzo, with its powerful motor rhythms, that the full fury of the storm breaks. The concluding passacaglia is built on repetition. The nature of the form party makes this inevitable, but repetition becomes a subtext, with the idea of speeding up to a climax being itself repeated, the second time subsiding into the peace of a storm blown out.
© John Joubert