At The Piano - Beethoven

Informatie

Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas are the “New Testament” of music, according to Hans von Bülow. Our selection here does not take things quite so solemnly, because we have also taken the opportunity to show the more “worldly” side of the composer, with dances, bagatelles, the unusual character piece “Lustig und traurig” (“Happy and sad”), and of course the indestructible “Für Elise”. As usual in our series “At the piano”, all the pieces are arranged progressively from easy to medium level of difficulty. And you do not have to be in awe of Beethoven’s piano sonatas either: the highly Classical sonata in G major (essentially a sonatina) offers an ideal introduction to the many-facetted world of Beethoven’s sonatas. In contrast to this, we also show Beethoven the “poet at the piano”, with the first movement of his “Moonlight” Sonata in c-sharp minor, along with the funeral march from the Sonata in A-flat major – visionary creations that already point far ahead into the world of Romanticism.

Inhoudsopgave

1. Piano Piece Lustig – Traurig WoO 54
2. 6 Écossaises WoO 83
3. Piano Piece “Für Elise” WoO 59
4. Sonata G major op. 49,2: Allegro, ma non troppo – Tempo di Menuetto
5. Sonata c sharp minor op. 27,2: Adagio sostenuto
6. 9 Variations WoO 69 on “Quant’ è più bello” from La Molinara by G. Paisiello
7. Sonata A flat major op. 26: Marcia funebre
8. Bagatelle op. 126 no. 1 Andante con moto, Bagatelle no. 5 Quasi allegretto
9. Sonata E major op. 14,1: Allegro – Allegretto – Rondo. Allegro comodo
10. Scherzo in B flat major D 593/1
11. Three Ländler in B flat major D 378 Nr. 6 - 8 from 8 Ländler D 378
12. 8 Écossaises D 977
13. First Waltzes op. 9 D 365: no. 1 and 2 in A flat major
14. Minuet in D major D 41 no. 16 from 20 Minuets D 41
15. German Dance op. post. 171 D 790 no. 1 in D major from 12 German Dances op. post. 171 D 790
16. Impromptu op. post. 142 D 935 no. 2 in Ab major
17. Moment musical op. 94 no. 3 in f minor D 780/3 from Moments musicaux op. 94
18. Moment musical op. 94 no. 6 in A flat major D 780/6 from Moments musicaux op. 94
19. Hungarian Melody in b minor D 817
20. Var. I–VII and XIII from 13 Variations D 576 on a theme by Hüttenbrenner
21. Sonata in A major op. post. 120 D 664: Allegro moderato – Andante – Allegro