Season 2 Episode 5: SONATAS

In this fifth episode of Season 2, Ben Laude and Garrick Ohlsson turn their attention to Chopin's multi-movement masterpieces, the Sonatas. Then, 2010 International Chopin Competition gold medalist Yulianna Avdeeva returns to the podcast to react to her own performances of Chopin's 2nd and 3rd Sonatas, before 2021 bronze medalist Martín García García joins the show to share his feelings on Chopin's youthful and neglected 1st Sonata. Musicologist Jeffrey Kallberg has some provocative questions about Chopin's so-called "Funeral March"; and finally, Jed Distler recommends some of the finest recordings of the Sonatas from the past century.

This podcast is produced in partnership with the Chopin Foundation of the United States, which presents the National Chopin Competition every 5 years. For more, visit chopin.org.

Each episode in this series is dedicated to one of Chopin's major compositional genres, and features Garrick as well as special guests approaching the pieces within that genre from a number of different angles – analytically, historically, and pianistically. Follow us at chopinpodcast.com.

Created and hosted by Ben Laude.