Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas with Conversation: Part 4, “The Experiments of the Great Transition”

At Bargemusic, pianist Misha Dichter plays piano sonatas by Johannes Brahms and Sergei Prokofiev. The program sets Brahms’s late‑Romantic architecture—rhythmically taut, harmonically searching—against Prokofiev’s modernist bite, where dance impulse and stagecraft surface inside strict classical forms. In New York, Bargemusic’s floating hall places this repertory in the city’s long, continuous tradition of recital culture rather than a one‑off premiere. The pairing also makes a quiet point: the sonata remains a durable frame for musical argument across eras.