Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 2 in A Major, Op. 2, No. 2
Sonata No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1
Franz Schubert
Impromptus, D. 899 (Op. 90)
No. 1 in C minor
No. 2 in E-flat major
No. 3 in G-flat major
No. 4 in A-flat major
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sonata No. 1 in D Minor, 3rd Movement, Op. 28
Sonata No. 2, 1st and 2nd Movement, Op. 36 (1913 Edition)
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I have not played Schubert for a long time. I knew that those pieces
sound well on my Petrof piano, a viennese origin, but those were too
sweet for me to go into. The same applied to pieces by Beethoven. I
seem to, however, be recovering from a sort of depression. I could
play them comfortably. I also listend to John Coltrane, a Jazz Giant,
today. I could not remember when was the last time I listened to
Jazz. My Favarite Things sounded fine to my ears.
My lecture of ethics, given this morning, was not so bad, I
believe. No one was asleep, to give you some insight 🙂 I felt sorry
when I saw the video clips capturing a guy who was swept away by
tsunami as the result of his good behaviour to evacuate a person on
wheelchair to safe place. I raised a question: why does the good man
have to die? Discussing the issue with the participants, I noticed
that the principle, ‘Do not care for others while you are fleeing away
from tsunami’, is an item of explicit knowledge. You need a courage to
observe the principle, though. What weakens you is your tacit
knowledge or an instinctive compassion to others. What is an irony!
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