MUSIC
MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 2019
7:00 PM

Beethoven: Late Piano Sonatas
Taka Kigawa
(Le) Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village, Manhattan

$20-$25 advance; $25-$30 door
https://lpr.com/lpr_events/lpr-x-taka-kigawa-august-27th-2018-2/

This List isn't usually in the business of recommending standard rep. But it's the last week of August, nothing much is doing, and this is, after all, the second-best set of instrumental music in the entire European canon (after the same composer's late string quartets). And the formidable Taka Kigawa is, after all, a New Music specialist taking a holiday. He distilled the essence of the Boulez piano sonatas — let's see what he does with these.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: This will be a long show — but the new Mediterraneanish Babs stays open late.