Performer: Rudolf Buchbinder
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Release: 2020
Size: 1.45 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Ludwig van Beethoven:
33 Variations in C Major, Op. 120 on a Waltz by Diabelli
01. Tema (Vivace)
02. Var. 1 (Alla marcia maestoso)
03. Var. 2 (Poco allegro)
04. Var. 3 (L’istesso tempo)
05. Var. 4 (Un poco più vivace)
06. Var. 5 (Allegro vivace)
07. Var. 6 (Allegro ma non troppo e serioso)
08. Var. 7 (Un poco più allegro)
09. Var. 8 (Poco vivace)
10. Var. 9 (Allegro pesante e risoluto)
11. Var. 10 (Presto)
12. Var. 11 (Allegretto)
13. Var. 12 (Un poco più moto)
14. Var. 13 (Vivace)
15. Var. 14 (Grave e maestoso)
16. Var. 15 (Presto scherzando)
17. Var. 16 (Allegro)
18. Var. 17 (Allegro)
19. Var. 18 (Poco moderato)
20. Var. 19 (Presto)
21. Var. 20 (Andante)
22. Var. 21 (Allegro con brio. Meno allegro)
23. Var. 22 (Allegro molto, alla ‘Notte e giorno faticar’ di Mozart)
24. Var. 23 (Allegro assai)
25. Var. 24 (Fughetta. Andante)
26. Var. 25 (Allegro)
27. Var. 26 (Piacevole)
28. Var. 27 (Vivace)
29. Var. 28 (Allegro)
30. Var. 29 (Adagio ma non troppo)
31. Var. 30 (Andante, sempre cantabile)
32. Var. 31 (Largo, molto espressivo)
33. Var. 32 (Fugue. Allegro)
34. Var. 33 (Tempo di Minuet moderato)
Lera Auerbach:
35. Diabellical Waltz
Brett Dean:
36. Variation for Rudi
Toshio Hosokawa:
37. Verlust
Christian Jost:
38. Rock it Rudi
Brad Lubman:
39. Variation for R.B.
Philippe Manoury:
40. Zwei Jahrhunderte später
Max Richter:
41. Diabelli
Rodion Shchedrin:
42. Variation on a Theme of Diabelli
Johannes Maria Staud:
43. A propos de…Diabelli
Tan Dun:
44. Blue Orchid
Jörg Widmann:
45. Diabelli-Variation
Johann Nepomuk Hummel:
46. Var. 16 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Friedrich Kalkbrenner:
47. Var. 18 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Conradin Kreutzer:
48. Var. 21 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Franz Liszt:
49. Var. 24 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Ignas Moscheles:
50. Var. 26 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart:
51. Var. 28 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Franz Schubert:
52. Var. 38 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Carl Czerny:
53. Var. 6 for Anton Diabelli’s Waltz
Celebrated pianist and renowned Beethoven specialist Rudolf Buchbinder will release his first album on Deutsche Grammophon. The collaboration sees him record not only his own new interpretation of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations but to commission 12 new variations himself, echoing the original story where in 1819 music publisher and composer Anton Diabelli wrote a 32-bar German Dance – a forerunner of the waltz – and sent it to more than 50 Austrian composers, asking each of them to write a variation on his original theme.
Buchbinder has invited 12 contemporary composers to write a variation on Diabelli’s theme including (in order of appearance) Lera Auerbach (*1973), Brett Dean (*1961), Toshio Hosokawa (*1955), Christian Jost (*1963), Brad Lubman (*1962), Philippe Manoury (*1952), Krzysztof Penderecki (*1933), Max Richter (*1966), Rodion Shchedrin (*1932), Johannes Maria Staud (*1974), Tan Dun (*1957) and Jörg Widmann (*1973).
At the time, Diabelli received contributions from Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778-1837), Frédéric Kalkbrenner (1785-1849), Conradin Kreutzer (1780-1849), Franz Liszt (1811-1886), who was barely eight years old when the invitation was issued, Ignaz Moscheles (1794-1870), Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart (1791-1844), Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Carl Czerny (1791-1857). Buchbinder has included these 8 variations that the original composer Diabelli received back on the album as well.
Beethoven initially refused to write anything, and supposedly dismissed the theme for its banality – but four years later he sent the publisher his own Thirty-Three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli. The set, later hailed by conductor Hans von Bülow as a “microcosm of Beethoven’s genius”, turned out to be the composer’s last completed large-scale piano work.