Pianist Gregg Pauley presents the fifth of nine concerts in his Beethoven Project at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at the Concord Community Music School Recital Hall, 23 Wall St. in downtown Concord.
Pauley’s concert will highlight the color and quality of one of Beethoven’s most famous keys – the key of three flats, which includes E-flat major and C minor. Pauley will feature three of Beethoven’s sonatas composed in these keys.
Composers often gravitate toward specific keys to communicate particular ideas or emotive qualities. Many of Beethoven’s most important works were written in the key of three flats, including six of his 32 Piano Sonatas (four in E-flat major and two in C minor) and his piano concerto No. 5, known as the “Emperor.”
Pauley’s Beethoven Project began in 2013, when Pauley set out to perform what he calls “the Everest of piano literature” – the complete cycle of the Beethoven’s piano sonatas – in three years.
Admission is $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. To purchase tickets, please visit greggpauley.com. More information at 228-1196.
