Title: Piano Pieces & Fragments
Artist: Beethoven / Gallo
Label: Naxos
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 747313413171
Genre: Classical Artists

Including premiere recordings, this programme provides us with a privileged opportunity to engage with 36 of Ludwig van Beethoven's rarely heard sketches, variations and briefest of compositions, even the earliest of which have much to teach us about the emergence of his unique voice and style. The range of Beethoven's musical experimentation reveals a lasting interest in counterpoint, as well as practical pages such as cadenzas for a Mozart concerto, an incomplete sonata and a second version of the famous bagatelle Fur Elise. A significant supplement to his greatest works, these miniatures bring the full arc of Beethoven's singular genius into ever clearer focus.

Tracks:
1.1 13 Variations in A Major on the Arietta Es war einmal ein alter Mann from Dittersdorf's Das rothe Käppchen, WoO 66
1.2 Pastorella in C Major, Biamonti 622 (transcribed by F. Rovelli) 0:00:23
1.3 12 Piano Miniatures from the Sketchbooks (ed. J. van der Zanden) (excerpts)
1.4 No. 3. Klavierstück: Alla marcia in C Major [Kafka Miscellany, f. 119v, 2-5]
1.5 No. 4. Klavierstück: Allegro giocoso in A Major [Kafka Miscellany, f. 41v, 13-16]
1.6 No. 6. Klavierstück: Allegro in A Major [Kafka Miscellany, f. 160r, 1-6]
1.7 No. 7. Klavierstück: Presto in A Major [Kafka Miscellany, f. 47v, 13-16]
1.8 No. 8. Klavierstück: Allegretto in G Major [Fischhof Miscellany, f. 53v, 11-14]
1.9 No. 9. Menuetto in D Major [Kafka Miscellany, f. 39r, 1-4]
1.10 Allegretto in C Minor, WoO 53 (2nd version, Hess 66)
1.11 3 Little Sketches in Canonic Style, Biamonti 69
1.12 Allegro in C Major, Biamonti 279 (transcribed by A. Schmitz)
1.13 Erstes Kaplied: Abschiedslied (arr. L. van Beethoven for piano as Klaviersatz, Hess 63)
1.14 Canon in A-Flat Major, WoO 222, Hess 275/328
1.15 Der vollkommene Kapellmeister, Part III Chapter 15: Canon in G Major (transcribed by L. van Beethoven, Hess 274) (performed on piano)
1.16 Adagio ma non molto in G Major, Hess 70 (fragment, transcribed by L. Lockwood and A. Gosman)
1.17 Sketch in A Major, Hess 60 (transcribed by A. Schmitz)
1.18 Theme with Variations in A Major, Hess 72 (fragment)
1.19 Liedthema in G Major, WoO 200, Hess 75, "O Hoffnung"
1.20 Presto in G Major, Biamonti 277 (transcribed by A. Schmitz)
1.21 4 Bagatelles, WoO 213: No. 2 in G Major (transcribed by A. Schmitz)
1.22 Piano Etude in B-Flat Major, Hess 58
1.23 Piano Etude in C Major, Hess
1.24 String Quintet in C Major, WoO 62, Hess 41: I. Andante maestoso, "Letzter musikalischer Gedanke" (fragment, completed by A. Diabelli for piano)
1.25 9 Variations in C Minor on a March by Dressler, WoO 63, "Dresselver Variations" (original version)
1.26 Piano Sonata (Sonatina) in F Major, WoO 50, Hess 53
1.27 6 Variations on a Swiss Song in F Major, WoO 64 (version for piano)
1.28 Andante in C Major, WoO 211 0:00:58 HKI191935127 MP3 WAV
1.29 Molto adagio in G Major, Hess 71 (fragment, transcribed by L. Lockwood and A. Gosman)
1.30 2 Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20, WoO 58
1.31 Cadenza to I. Allegro
1.32 Cadenza to III. Rondo
1.33 Zweiter Eingang in's Thema vom Rondo, Hess 84 (cadenza for the piano version of Violin Concerto, Op. 61)
1.34 Kadenz zum Rondo, Hess 85 (cadenza for the piano version of Violin Concerto, Op. 61)
1.35 No. 1 in D-Flat Major
1.36 No. 4 in A Major
1.37 Bagatelle in A Minor, WoO 59, "Für Elise" (1822 version, ed. B. Cooper)
1.38 Composition for Piano in D Major, Biamonti 213 (fragment, transcribed by J. Kerman)

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