Grammy-winner plays mature Mozart, Haydn sonatas

During Richard Goode’s recital on Tuesday night at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, the Grammy Award-winning pianist explores some of the compositions written by Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven in the latter years of their lives.

“Haydn wrote 60 piano sonatas but only eight or 10 of them in the later part of his life,” said Goode during a recent phone interview. “The early sonatas are not as interesting as the late sonatas, which use more of the piano’s resources such as the pedal for special effects.”

	If you go WHAT: The Santa Fe Concert Association presents pianist Richard Goode WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 9 WHERE: Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St., Santa Fe HOW MUCH: Tickets $20-$75. Call 505-988-1234

Sonata in C Major by Haydn is a late Haydn work played by the world-renowned pianist during his recital. After opening the concert with this mature work, Goode launches into two late works by Mozart. While the Rondo in A Minor, K 511 is expressive in a way that isn’t found in earlier pieces by Mozart, the Sonata in F Major, K. 533 has an imitative section in it that is not commonly heard in other works by the composer.

“I’m glad that the Santa Fe Concert Association asked me to play later works by these composers because they’re wonderful pieces,” Goode added. “Mozart’s 533 sonata is a favorite of mine.”

Post intermission Goode presents his rendition of Beethoven’s Sonata in A Major, Op. 101 and Sonata in A-flat Major, Op. 110.

“Beethoven’s 101 represents the beginning of his late style,” Goode explained. “The sonata is as much a romantic piece as a classical one. Emotionally, it looks forward. The second movement sounds like (Robert) Schumann.”

Goode, whose recording of the complete Beethoven sonatas was nominated for a Grammy Award, won a Grammy for his recording of the Brahms sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. He has made more than two dozen recordings including solo works and concerti by Mozart, the complete Partitas by J.S. Bach, and solo and chamber works of Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Schumann, Frédéric Chopin, Ferruccio Busoni, and George Perle. He also has collaborated with soprano Dawn Upshaw in a recording of Goethe Lieder of Schubert, Schumann and Hugo Wolf.

During the current concert season Goode has presented recitals in some of the world’s leading music centers including Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Concerts in Europe have featured performances with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, the Tonhalle Orchestra and the Bergen Philharmonic.

A native of New York, Goode studied with noted teachers Elvira Szigeti, Claude Frank, Nadia Reisenberg and Rudolf Serkin. He has won numerous prizes, including the Young Concert Artists Award, First Prize in the Clara Haskil Competition and the Avery Fisher Prize.

When he’s not performing internationally or serving as co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont, Goode lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Marcia Weinfeld.