![]() ![]() Miraculously, given that the composer was supposedly in the tertiary stage of syphilis, “there is in the Sonata in B-flat,” Philip Radcliffe noted in his small book on Schubert’s sonatas, “no place for terror.” But there are no trills like those in the first movement of the sublime piano sonata Schubert finished and performed two months before his death at 31. When signaling the onset of mystical transcendence in his late piano pieces, Beethoven vexes performers with finger-busting trills. When Baroque music wants a little sexing up, a trill’s wavy glitter serves as reliable ornament. When women’s voices ululate, they do so, in different regions of the world, to celebrate, to mourn, to pray, to warn, to seduce. When a chipping sparrow trills, it could be that spring has arrived.
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