Scherzo
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Search complete. 63 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Scherzo".
Sep 21, 2026
MikeHOST
¶¶ All right, the Sarabande from English Suite No. 1.
MikeHOST
Track 2, Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 539.
MikeHOST
The prelude is fairly arpeggiated, so the harmony comes across strongly.
MikeHOST
Freeman Atwood varies his tone a bit within the piece, but not from piece to piece generally.
MikeHOST
So it's pretty impressive to be able to do this on a single line instrument.
MikeHOST
Pretty remarkable performance here.
MikeHOST
Track 3, Preambulum from Sonata for Violin in E minor, BWV 1023, transposed here to B minor.
MikeHOST
Let's just start with a sample.
Anna BlackHOST
Great.
Anna BlackHOST
an excerpt like Mendelssohn or Schumann's Scherzo.
Anna BlackHOST
Like I said a couple episodes ago, a Scherzo is my mortal enemy.
Anna BlackHOST
So like a...
Anna BlackHOST
I cannot do that stroke under pressure, and I cannot do that consistently.
Jordan WattsNARRATOR
End of footnote.
Jordan WattsNARRATOR
See Beethoven chapter with regard to position of Minuet or Scherzo in his sonatas.
Jordan WattsNARRATOR
In a sonata by Schaffrath, the opening Allegro is followed by a fugue.
Jordan WattsNARRATOR
Again, in Spitz, Zach, and Fischer, the following order is found.
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Jordan WattsNARRATOR
In our introductory chapter, we spoke of 20 sonatas containing four movements written probably about the middle of the 18th century, also of one of Wagenseil's for clavier with violin accompaniment.
Jordan WattsNARRATOR
Yet among the known sonatas of that period, these form a minority.
Jordan WattsNARRATOR
Wölfel's sonata in B-flat, Opus 15, has four movements, Allegro, Adante, Scherzo Allegro, and Finale, Theme and Variations.
Jordan WattsNARRATOR
But that work appeared shortly after Beethoven's Opus 2.
Mark DonaldsonGUEST
the Romans with a nice barbecue pizza, really goes really well.
Mark DonaldsonGUEST
And also, um, a pepperoni Goodfellas listening to Scherzo, the Eighth Doctor Big Finish.
Joe FordHOST
Do you do that very often?
Mark DonaldsonGUEST
It's, it's a very good experience.
Nate BrownHOST
The slow movement, I usually am a big fan of Beethoven's slow movements, but this one I didn't feel like was up to his usual standards.
Nate BrownHOST
I did enjoy the third movement, the Scherzo, and I noticed that this was composed about the following year after the Fifth Symphony, and it had the short, short, short, long motif in that third movement, which obviously he famously used throughout the Fifth Symphony.
Nate BrownHOST
And so I wonder if maybe he just felt like he hadn't quite beaten that motif to death yet and wanted to work it out a little bit more.
Nate BrownHOST
But the slow music in this one I just felt was lacking, including the slow intro to the first movement.