The Play of Opposites: Thomas Sauer, piano

The Play of Opposites: The music of Beethoven foreshadows the later 19th-century obsession with the depiction of character in music. This program features works from Beethoven through the Romantics that explore oppositions in character. A piece from the French modernist Dutilleux turns musical material against itself, in a different sort of opposition. Thomas Sauer, piano.