Isserlis levin beethoven 7th
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BEETHOVEN: Complete works for violoncello and piano &#; [Tracklist follows] &#; Steven Isserlis, cello/ Robert Levin, fortepiano &#; Hyperion (2 discs):
BEETHOVEN: Complete works for violoncello and piano &#; [TrackList follows] &#; Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello/ Alexander Melinkov, piano &#; Harmonia mundi (2 discs):
BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1; Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2; Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69; Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. , No. 1; Cello Sonata in D Major, Op. , No. 2; Variations on “See the conqu’ring hero comes” from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, WoO45; Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Op. 66; Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” from Mozart’s Dei Zauberflöte, WoO46; Horn Sonata in F Major, Op. 17 (arr. for cello and piano) – Steven Isserlis, cello / Robert Levin, fortepiano) – Hyperion CDA/2 (2 discs), , [Distr. by Harmonia mundi], (1/14/14) *****:
“BEETHOVEN: Complete works for violoncello and piano” = Variations on “Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen” from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, Op. 66; Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1; Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2; Variations on “See the conqu’ring hero comes” from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, WoO45; Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69; Vari
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Ludwig van Beethoven
7 Variations on Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen
from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte Wo
Beethoven’s second set of cello and piano variations on a tune derived from Mozart’s Magic Flute was composed in , five years after his previous Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen variations of In this set, Beethoven picks another simple folk-like tune, a duet between Pamina, who has just learned that Tamino loves her, and Papageno, who laments that he can’t even get a Friday-night date. Despite this difference in their amatory status, there is one thing they can both agree on in song, and that is that “Love sure is grand, isn’t it?”
The original form of the duet – with each singer presenting the tune separately, then both singing together – is preserved in the variations that follow. Of course, when you are ‘covering’ a Mozart tune, the bar for wit and elegance is set rather high. So Beethoven is on his best behaviour here, combining the twin virtues of contrapuntal ingenuity and textural variety in the best Austrian tradition. Thus, while fulfilling the formal expectations of the genre – figural ornament, a variation in the minor mode, a lyrical adagio preceding a toe- tapping finale – he makes sure that each variation is as different as possible from its neigh
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