Piano Guidance
Piano Guidance
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The Sonata has been sold in the U.S. since the 1989 model year. New EV models will eventually replace the Sonata within the lineup, including the Ioniq 6 sedan.
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Read More »Hyundai will reportedly discontinue the Sonata mid-size sedan after the current generation runs its course. The Sonata has been sold in the U.S. since the 1989 model year. New EV models will eventually replace the Sonata within the lineup, including the Ioniq 6 sedan. The mainstream mid-size sedan segment has shrunk considerably in recent years, with Hyundai and Kia two of the key holdouts along with Honda, Toyota, and a few others. But even the well-established Sonata nameplate may depart Hyundai's lineup within the next few years, according to a report from Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo. In response, a Hyundai spokesperson told C/D, "Sonata remains and will continue to be an important part of Hyundai’s product lineup. Any rumors on its future are pure speculation." The report cites sources at Hyundai who say that the company is not developing a next generation of the Sonata, with the sedan slated to disappear after the current model runs its course, possibly as soon as 2025. It's likely to receive one last facelift before it bows out for good, as the eighth-generation Sonata that's on sale today debuted for the 2020 model year. The Sonata, which offers two gasoline engines and a hybrid powertrain, will be phased out in favor of new EV models. The upcoming Ioniq 6 EV will be a sedan and may effectively replace the Sonata within Hyundai's lineup, although it's likely to cost significantly more than the current Sonata's base price of $25,545. Hyundai also recently announced plans for a new factory in the U.S. that will build electric vehicles and batteries; it's unclear at this point exactly which models will be built there. There's also no word on how this might affect the future of the Sonata's corporate cousin, the Kia K5 sedan. It will likely be a little while before Sonata production officially comes to an end, so we expect to hear more over the next year or so. This content is imported from poll. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.
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Read More »32 piano sonatas But if “masterpiece” can be meaningless, Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas, composed between 1795 and 1822, are deservedly touchstones. Hans von Bülow, the first to play all 32 in a series of recitals, likened Bach's “Well-Tempered Clavier” to the Old Testament and Beethoven's sonatas to the New.
These works took the sonata genre to a new dimension: multi-movement, episodic and often fitful, yet also ingeniously integrated. The pieces abound in challenges that were unprecedented for their time and remain daunting. So much the better, Beethoven believed. He once told a publisher, “What is difficult is also beautiful and good.” He wanted pianists to sweat. The coronavirus pandemic silenced the burst of many Beethoven performances that had been scheduled this year, the 250th anniversary of his birth. But while live concerts may be few, the sonatas have been well served in the recording studio. Numerous pianists — including Alfred Brendel, Daniel Barenboim, Maurizio Pollini, Annie Fischer, Andras Schiff, Richard Goode and, more recently Paul Lewis — have released distinguished cycles. The best performances bring out not just the structural designs of the sonatas, but also their wildness and fearsome intensity. Whole movements exude wry, sometimes downright silly humor. And yet Beethoven also touches mystical sublimity, as in the final minutes of the last sonata. In recent years, I’ve been drawn to performances by younger pianists who cut through the “masterpiece” trappings and dare to make personal statements. The latest is Igor Levit, whose nine-disc survey was released last fall by Sony Classical. He was only 25 when he recorded the five late sonatas in 2013 for his Sony debut. Over the past few years, he filled in the other 27. It’s an extraordinary achievement. His accounts abound in vitality, clarity and a visceral feeling for drama. In reflective passages, his playing can be raptly restrained and tender, as in the opening movement of the Sonata No. 28 in A (Op. 101). Below the bittersweet, undulant surface of this music, as Mr. Levit reveals, Beethoven compresses an expansive sonata structure into less than four and a half minutes.
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