Louis Lortie plays Beethoven's Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 3, 5, 8, and 18 The Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas: A Nine-Concert Series
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Abstract
In the early months of 2020, Louis Lortie inaugurated his dazzling full set of Beethoven sonatas in front of enraptured live audiences--part of a year of festivities for the composer's 250th birthday--at the Bourgie Hall in Montreal. Though circumstances forced Lortie to continue the series without the captivated crowds, he completed the 32-sonata cycle in the same stunning hall, with passion and dynamism to spare. How does a pianist approach a project as daunting as this? "Pianists," explains Lortie, "are like athletes--there are some things that are built into the body, things that have to be done so the nerves and muscles react the right way. Once you have built that up, you are set for life." Since his breakthrough 1984 season that brought him a prize in Leeds and a victory in the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition, Lortie has remained in top form, a musician whose skill and dedication make him an ideal candidate to take on this monumental challenge. This first volume notably includes Sonatas No. 8 (Pathétique) and No. 18 ("The Hunt")
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.077 | 0.017 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".