Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer: Ilker Arcayürek, Ludwig Chamber Players
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 5553552
Release: 2020
Size: 331 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
12 Variations on Handel’s “See the Conqu’ring Hero Comes”, WoO 45 (Arr. A.N. Tarkmann for Octet)
01. Theme. Allegretto
02. Var. 1, —
03. Var. 2, —
04. Var. 3, —
05. Var. 4, —
06. Var. 5, —
07. Var. 6, —
08. Var. 7, —
09. Var. 8, —
10. Var. 9, —
11. Var. 10, —
12. Var. 11, —
13. Var. 12, —
14. Adelaide, Op. 46 (Arr. M. Ucki for Voice & Septet)
An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98 (Arr. A.N. Tarkmann for Voice & Octet)
15. No. 1, Auf dem Hügel sitz ich spähend
16. No. 2, Wo die Berge so blau
17. No. 3, Leichte Segler in den Höhen
18. No. 4, Diese Wolken in den Höhen
19. No. 5, Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au
20. No. 6, Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder
Septet in E-Flat Major, Op. 20
21. I. Adagio – Allegro con brio
22. II. Adagio cantabile
23. III. Tempo di menuetto
24. IV. Tema con variazioni. Andante
25. V. Scherzo. Allegro molto e vivace
26. VI. Andante con moto alla marcia – Presto
Beethoven arranged.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s artistic greatness is measured not only by his symphonies, piano sonatas, and string quartets but also in the smaller dimensions of songs, duos, and ensemble music. Beethoven also set standards, created new things, and encouraged experiments in these secondary or occasional works – and did so with an impact felt right through to the present, as the arrangements by Andreas N. Tarkmann demonstrate – for example, in the dialogue form between voice or cello and piano and the sound world of winds and strings.
Tarkmann has arranged the twelve Variations on a Theme from “Judas Maccabaeus” for octet and fully exploits expanded tone-color resources such as the juxtaposition of wind and string “choirs” already in the theme. When Tarkmann was asked whether an arrangement can be “better” than the original, he replied: “Both the variations and the song collection appealed very much to me as an arranger. Such an arrangement is of course a very precise occupation with the original source, and in both works I had the vision that their compositional qualities would be even more clearly audible in an instrumental version. By this I mean new audio perspectives, the clarification and elaboration of harmonic and formal structures as well as an enrichment of the tone colors”.